Comparison

Experience Gozo vs Next Ferry

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Experience Gozo

Discover the island of Gozo and Comino with curated self-guided walks. Explore beautiful landscapes, rich history, and natural features with detailed maps, descriptions, and audio guides in multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Self-guided walks
  • Interactive island map
  • Detailed route descriptions
  • Historical facts
  • Audio guide
  • Multilingual support
  • Apple Health integration
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Gozo is a small island with marvellous landscape and a rich history providing many wonderful experiences for the rambler. From peaceful country and hill walks to rambles along cliff-tops with panoramic views; from coastal paths past extraordinary natural features to heritage trails through the alleyways of the Knights of St John or the unique prehistoric landscape, there is a spectacular walk ideal for any reasonably fit person. Experience Gozo is an application that takes you around the entire island by routes that are interesting, safe, varied and thoroughly enjoyable. The application presents a handful of self-guided walks that, combined, take you through some of the most beautiful places on the island of Gozo and Comino and comes with a fully functional Gozo & Comino map, text describing some of the important features you meet along the walks, historical facts, directions, and an audio guide. These features are available in English, French, German, and Italian. Apple Health: When you record a cycling, hiking, walking or running track you are able to save work outs to Apple Health. Data from HealthKit will not be used for marketing or promotional purposes.

About

Next Ferry

Features
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Next Ferry answers one question, quickly: when does the next ferry go? It covers every scheduled passenger and car ferry in Malta, in one app: • Valletta – Sliema • Valletta – Three Cities (Cospicua) • Valletta – Gozo, the fast ferry • Ċirkewwa – Gozo, the car ferry • Sliema – Buġibba – Gozo Open it and you see the next departure, how long you have, and the sailings after it. Pick your line once and it opens there next time. If you allow location, it opens on the ferry nearest you and faces it the way you are travelling. WHAT ELSE IS IN IT Live positions. The Gozo car ferries are drawn on the map where they actually are, with their names, so you can see whether one is crossing or alongside. The queue. How many cars and lorries are waiting at Ċirkewwa and Mġarr right now — the number that decides whether to leave immediately or finish your coffee. A real map. The whole of Malta and Gozo, with the route your line takes and both terminals marked. It is drawn into the app rather than downloaded, so it works with no signal — which is where you usually are. Fares. What each crossing costs, per class, with the date the figures were last checked against the operator, and the part people get wrong said plainly: on the car ferry you pay on the Gozo side. Service updates. Disruptions in force now are shown; changes planned for weeks away are kept out of the way until you want them. Works offline. The last timetable it fetched is kept on the device, so it still answers on a quay with no reception. TWENTY-THREE LANGUAGES English, Maltese, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Greek, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Amharic and Filipino. Choose one in the app; it does not have to match your phone. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT IS Next Ferry is not a ferry operator and sells no tickets. It reads what Valletta Ferry Services, Gozo Highspeed and Gozo Channel publish and puts it in one place. If an operator changes a sailing without publishing it, this app will be wrong until it catches up — so for a flight or the last crossing of the night, check with them. No account, no sign-up, no advertising, and nothing about you is collected. Your location, if you give it, is used on the device and sent nowhere.

Screenshots

Experience Gozo4 screens
Next Ferry4 screens

Verdict

The call

Experience Gozo and Next Ferry are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Experience Gozo versus Next Ferry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExperience GozoNext Ferry
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 37 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMalta Information Technology AgencySil van Diepen

In-app purchases

None

Experience Gozo

No in-app purchases

None

Next Ferry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Experience Gozo free?
Experience Gozo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Next Ferry free?
Next Ferry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Experience Gozo or Next Ferry have ads?
Neither Experience Gozo nor Next Ferry shows ads.

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