ANC Explorer vs Capital Bikeshare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ANC Explorer
Discover gravesites and points of interest within a cemetery. Get directions, capture marker photos, and receive important notifications. Create custom walking tours by saving favorite locations.
- Locate gravesites and points of interest
- Generate marker and monument photos
- Step-by-step directions
- Emergency and event notifications
- Save favorite places
- Create custom walking tours
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Users can locate gravesites and other points of interest throughout the cemetery, generate front-and-back pictures of a marker or monument, and receive step-by-step directions to these locations. The app also provides emergency and event notifications and the ability to share on popular social media sites. Users can save favorite places in My Content to create their own custom walking tours.
Capital Bikeshare
This app provides access to a large bike-sharing system across Washington D.C., Virginia, and Maryland. Users can purchase rides, unlock bikes, and find nearby stations with available bikes and docks. It also integrates public transit schedules for seamless travel planning.
- Purchase rides and memberships
- Unlock bikes directly from the app
- View station locations and bike availability
- Get walking directions to stations
- See public transit schedules
- Ideal for one-way trips
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Capital Bikeshare is DC, Virginia, and Maryland’s bike share system, and the first large scale bikeshare in the nation. Capital Bikeshare (CaBi) has thousands of bikes at hundreds of stations across Washington DC, Arlington, Alexandria, Tysons, Reston, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Bethesda and Chevy Chase. Best of all, it’s available 24/7. CaBi consists of a fleet of specially designed, sturdy and durable bikes that are locked into a network of docking stations throughout the city. The bikes can be unlocked from one station and returned to any other station in the system, making them ideal for one-way trips. People use bike share to commute to work, meet friends for dinner, or simply cruise around and see new sights. After signing up, all trips under 30 minutes are free. The CaBi App lets you purchase rides, unlock a bike, and ride right away. You can also view all station locations, see available bikes and docks, and get walking directions to them to start your ride. The Capital Bikeshare app also shows upcoming public transit departures, including WMATA Metrorail, Metrobus, and shuttle lines, DC Circulator buses, Fairfax Connector buses, Montgomery RideOn buses, Alexandria DASH buses, Prince George’s County TheBus buses, Arlington Regional Transit buses, VRE trains, and the Silver Line Express. Within the app, you can purchase the following: Single Ride Access Pass Membership Happy riding!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Capital Bikeshare at 4.5 against ANC Explorer's 3.0. Capital Bikeshare also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (2.4K vs 56). ANC Explorer's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Capital Bikeshare holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Capital Bikeshare has 2.4K ratings behind it against 56, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of ANC Explorer's written reviews are positive against 33% of Capital Bikeshare's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ANC Explorer ships an update every 2 months, Capital Bikeshare weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ANC Explorer | Capital Bikeshare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (56 ratings) | 4.5 (2.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews — better | 32.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 56 | 2.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #198 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 249 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arlington National Cemetery | Lyft Bikes and Scooters, LLC |
Customer experience
ANC Explorer
Capital Bikeshare
User reviews
ANC Explorer
From 56 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📍 Accurate grave location finding
- 🗺️ Easy navigation to graves
- 📸 Photo of headstone available
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- ⏱️ Saves time searching
Room to improve
- 🐌 Very slow performance
- ❌ Search feature unreliable
- 🚫 No back button
- 📉 Inconsistent performance
- unresponsive app
Capital Bikeshare
From 2.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 🚲 Convenient way to get around
- 💰 Affordable pricing
- 📍 Helpful navigation and station info
Room to improve
- 🚲 Bike and dock availability issues
- 🔍 Unclear pricing and fees
- 🤖 Poor customer service
- 🐛 Buggy app and technical problems
Bugs and requests
ANC Explorer
Reported bugs
40 issues- Unable to delete duplicate entries in My Content
- Start Tour function doesn't work
- Search yields zero results
- No back button
- Directions are horrible
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- App caused phone to freeze
- Errors with pictures (wrong names)
- Unable to see photos of headstones after update
- Constant error messages
- Fails to connect to grave site database
- App does not work
- Cannot look up people without error message
- Notable graves on app not current
- App shuts down when accessing MyContent
- App closes when clicking My Content
- Crashes on each open
- Latest update won't load, black screen
- Cannot view the map
- Search function is garbage
- Notable Women list incomplete
- Details section of search results has issues
- Network error message for grave pictures
- Search feature would not work (internet connection error)
- Frozen app, cannot get past help screen
- Black screen on open after uninstall
- App not loading or functioning after update
- Blank screen after update
- App delivers only a blank screen after update
- Pictures not shown after update, cannot download
- Black screen
- Map fails to load
- Battery drain
- App will no longer open after iOS upgrade
- Search feature will not work after update
- Start from here feature eliminated
- Server errors, nothing works
- App refuses to let me see results
- Inappropriate advertising pop-up
- Cannot find grave sites
- iPad version works, iPhone version useless
Requested features
8 requests- Add a back button
- Include a north arrow
- Improve reliability of directions
- Enhance customer service for tech support
- Update notable graves list
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- Improve search functionality
- Add dark mode
- Increase text size and contrast for daylight readability
Capital Bikeshare
Reported bugs
3 issues- Bikes not unlocking properly
- Incorrect dock availability info
- Charges for rides that didn't happen
Requested features
4 requests- Extend ride time limit
- Improve bike and dock distribution
- Add voice navigation
- Better integration with public transit
In-app purchases
ANC Explorer
No in-app purchases
Capital Bikeshare
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ANC Explorer free?
Is Capital Bikeshare free?
Which has better reviews, ANC Explorer or Capital Bikeshare?
Do ANC Explorer or Capital Bikeshare have ads?
Which is updated more often, ANC Explorer or Capital Bikeshare?
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