Assignr vs Guidebox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Assignr
Manage, communicate, and pay referees and umpires efficiently. This app allows officials to update availability, accept assignments, and message within the platform. Organizations can process payments and track game reports.
- Assign games to referees and umpires
- Manage official availability
- Communicate with officials via messaging
- Process payments via Direct Deposit
- Submit game reports
- Access official directory
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Whether you manage a small group of umpires, or assign thousands of games per year, we have everything you need to assign, communicate, manage, and pay your referees and umpires, all in one place. This is the official Assignr mobile app, designed to work with the Assignr.com referee and umpire management platform. Your referees and umpires can use the mobile app to manage their availability, accept or decline game assignments, and communicate using our messaging functionality. Organziations in the United States can use Assignr to pay officials using Direct Deposit. Referees and umpires can provide W9 and banking details, submit game reports, and access a directory of other officials within your organization. A subscription to the Assignr platform is required to use the Assignr mobile app.
Guidebox
This app offers a private and secure platform for anglers to log catches, bookmark fishing spots, and access real-time weather and water conditions. It generates personalized fishing reports and provides species-specific tactics, even offline.
- Private catch and spot logging
- Offline map and data access
- Real-time weather and water conditions
- Personalized fishing reports
- Species-specific tactics
- Fish stocking data
- Catch analysis and achievements
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Guidebox provides combined maps, reports, weather and catch logs for anglers who want a private and secure platform to track their fishing and current conditions. Spots and catches are never shared with anyone. Log catches, bookmark spots, get conditions, and generate fishing reports tailored to your preferences. Your fishing, indexed, secured, and powered up. KEEPS YOUR DATA PRIVATE Your catches, waypoints, photos, and locations are encrypted, backed up, and shared with no-one—ever. Sign in with email, Apple, or Google. DESIGNED FOR THE FIELD Automatically saves recent forecasts, tides, and reports to take your data off grid! View your waypoints & catches on the offline map. Log everything, anywhere, data will sync when you reconnect. Full Features: • Bookmark spots with target species, method, and water type. Every report and filter uses what you set. • Log catches in under a minute. Pick a photo; location and conditions auto-fill. • Bulk-import your backlog 50 photos at a time, auto-grouped by time and GPS* • Filter waypoints and catches by species, region, more! • High resolution basemaps: hybrid satellite, terrain, satellite, streets. Includes layers for public lands, contours, hydrography (free) and 3D terrain* • See real-time conditions. Guidebox pulls live conditions from USGS, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA (tides, buoys & water forecasts), the National Weather Service, and Water Survey of Canada — 14,000+ stream gauges, 3,400+ tide stations, wave buoys, NWS flood forecasts, and full US + Canada hydrography from USGS 3DHP & NHN • Fish-stocking data for 37 U.S. states and 7 Canadian provinces — over 27,000 stocking locations — sourced from state and provincial fish & wildlife agencies, refreshed automatically* (data varies by state) • Reports combine weather, pressure, gauges, and tides with your species and water preferences alongside established scientific literature to predict fish behavior and activity* • Get tactics tailored to your bookmark. Species-specific recommendations based on real conditions — not a generic article. • Index your year of fishing. Heatmaps, species collections, personal bests, and 36 achievement medals built from your catch logs. *premium features (available with Angler or Guide subscriptions) — Privacy Policy: https://guidebox.app/privacy EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Assignr at none against Guidebox's 3. Assignr also leads on ratings volume (8.9K vs 4). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Guidebox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Assignr asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Assignr against 5.0 for Guidebox. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Assignr has 8.9K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Assignr | Guidebox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8.9K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8.9K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Assignr LLC | Michael Wallace |
Customer experience
Assignr
Guidebox
Bugs and requests
Assignr
Reported bugs
3 issues- App not registering availability changes correctly
- Logging out issues
- Server connection problems
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to view other referees' game reports
- Search feature to filter games by level or location
- Ability to request games directly from the app
- Automatic availability blocking when a game is accepted
- Option to view past games through the app
Guidebox
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Assignr
No in-app purchases
Guidebox
- Guide - Monthly$9.991 Month
- Angler - Annual$19.991 Year
- Guide - Annual$79.991 Year









