Plan Your Sail vs Periscope View
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plan Your Sail
Visualize predicted tide and current conditions along sailing routes for specific dates and times. This tool helps optimize sailing trips by avoiding strong currents and low tide hazards. It utilizes NOAA data for the United States.
- Predict tide and current conditions
- Visualize conditions along routes
- Select optimal dates and times
- Utilizes NOAA data
- Works in the United States
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Sailing in areas with significant tides and currents requires good planning. It's no fun to sail against strong currents, and even less fun to run aground coming into a cove on low tide. Plan Your Sail lets you see predicted Tide and Current conditions along pre-defined routes at different Dates and Times. This helps you quickly pick the best date and time to take a particular sailing trip, or alternately, to pick the best trip for a specific day. Plan Your Sail uses NOAA data for tides and currents and, as such, works only in the United States. Plan Your Sail is not to be used for Navigation.
Periscope View
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Periscope View helps you make sure you're headed down the right path, or that your Tv-radio antenna is aimed properly. With the help of satellites, it allows you to view your surroundings up to a hundred miles or so with either a map or satellite image view. Provision is made for placing three colored pins at desired locations using either textual geosearch or via latitude and longitude coordinates or just tapping on a zoomed map. You can easily also save your current location.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Plan Your Sail at 13.0 against Periscope View's 15.6. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Plan Your Sail | Periscope View |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Craddock | John Martin |
In-app purchases
Plan Your Sail
No in-app purchases
Periscope View
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Plan Your Sail free?
Is Periscope View free?
Do Plan Your Sail or Periscope View have ads?
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