Lock Status vs AGLCA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lock Status
Provides real-time information on U.S. river locks and dams. Get contact details and see upcoming locks for your waterway journey. Essential for boaters and canoeists navigating rivers.
- Up-to-date lock information
- Contact methods for locks
- Upcoming lock identification
- Supports waterway journeys
- River and dam status
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Canoeing down the Mississippi River? Taking your boat across the Okeechobee Waterway? Spending a year completing the Great Loop? When completing any of these tasks, you are bound to run in to locks along your journey! Use this app to get up to date information about locks, methods to contact the locks, and see which locks are coming up next!
AGLCA
Plan your Great Loop adventure with this navigation app. Discover sponsor locations, Harbor Hosts, and member-designated points of interest along the route. Members gain access to exclusive features like location-based Harbor Host finding and sponsor discounts.
- Great Loop route visualization
- Sponsor and Harbor Host locations
- Member-exclusive points of interest
- Great Loop FAQs and boat information
- Sample itineraries
- GPX file downloads for navigation apps
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America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association’s app helps you plan stops on your Great Loop adventure by showing you the route itself, and where you can find our sponsors, Harbor Hosts, and “Best of the Loop” points of interest in more than 10 categories as designated by our members. All app users can review the Great Loop route, read FAQs about the Great Loop route and Great Loop-capable boats, and learn more about each segment of the Great Loop. AGLCA members enjoy additional features, such as finding Harbor Hosts near their current location, getting discount offers from our sponsors, and seeing details about each “Best of the Loop” point of interest. AGLCA members can also see a sample itinerary for the Great Loop that shows just one of the thousands of combinations of stops you can make on the Great Loop. You can also download .gpx files for each leg that can be imported into your navigation app for review.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Lock Status at free against AGLCA's freemium. AGLCA's advantage is ratings volume (441 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lock Status against 4.9 for AGLCA. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AGLCA has 441 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Lock Status ships an update every 2 months, AGLCA every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lock Status | AGLCA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.9 (441 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 441 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Thom | Land and Sea Software |
Customer experience
Lock Status
AGLCA
In-app purchases
Lock Status
No in-app purchases
AGLCA
No in-app purchases
