Hidden Tours vs Beckford's Tower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hidden Tours
Experience history like never before with immersive audio tours guided by historical characters and expert commentary. Explore major sites and hidden gems, with interactive maps showing both historical and modern views. Available for offline use in English and French.
- Immersive audio-guided tours
- Historical character narration
- Expert historical commentary
- Interactive historical/modern maps
- Explore major sites and hidden gems
- Offline use available
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Immersive audio-guided tours led by historical characters, with expert commentary. Available in English and French. Includes ‘The Passion Quest’ trail, set in 1500. Features: - Explore the city's major sites and discover hidden gems. - Toggle between an interactive historical and modern map. - Characters brought to life by actors. Expert commentary from the historians. - Use on location, or off site. Explore the other ‘Hidden Cities’ by searching Hidden: Florence, Valencia, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Exeter, Deventer, Trento, Landshut
Beckford's Tower
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Explore the Beckford’s Tower landscape and discover the stories behind its history and creation. This easy to use App takes you on a tour around the landscape of Bath Landmark, Beckford’s Tower. 7 essential stops in the Beckford’s Tower landscape. At each stop reveals stories about the design, wildlife and people who feature in the landscape’s history through interviews and images. Each location also has a bonus audio that digs deeper into related stories. You can read a transcript of all the audio clips by selecting the transcript icon. The GPS enabled trail map guides you around the landscape. The landscape trail includes themes of enslavement, exploitation and abuse. You can also explore the family trail with child friendly information about each of the 7 stops. Why not try the quiz and spotters challenge to test your knowledge? App free to download. Download the App and discover a fascinating way to enjoy the landscape around Beckford’s Tower. Beckford’s’ Tower is open at weekends and bank holiday Mondays. Purchasing an admission tickets unlocks further features in the app. Augmented reality recreates how the interiors of Beckford’s Tower looked when first built in 1827. Explore objects in the collection through 360-degree photogrammetry to see objects as you have never seen them before.
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Verdict
Hidden Tours and Beckford's Tower are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Hidden Tours | Beckford's Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of Exeter | Calvium Ltd |
In-app purchases
Hidden Tours
No in-app purchases
Beckford's Tower
No in-app purchases
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