ANC Explorer vs Tour Director
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.
Tour Director
This app helps tour directors manage group information, itineraries, and payments for their tours. It provides access to EF resources and allows for secure communication with participants and EF support.
- Access itinerary allocations
- View detailed group information
- Access EF resources
- Manage safety and payments
- Contact EF support
- Chat with tour participants
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As a Tour Director working with EF, you are empowered to be the insightful, culturally connected leader who guides our customers every step of the way. From hotel check-ins to route navigation, you handle the details so students and teachers can relax on tour. The "Tour Director" app is here to make your job a little bit easier, so you can focus on delivering life-changing experiences every day. Features available for Tour Directors: - Access itinerary allocations and control what aspects of it should be customer-facing - View detailed group information for tours you’re leading - Access important EF resources to help your tour be a success - Manage safety and process secure payments - Get in touch with EF during any unforeseen circumstances - Send chat messages to tour participants without sharing your phone number
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tour Director at 4.5 against ANC Explorer's 3.0. ANC Explorer's advantage is ratings volume (56 vs 8). On price, update cadence, 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.
Tour Director holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ANC Explorer has 56 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ANC Explorer | Tour Director |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (56 ratings) | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arlington National Cemetery | Signum International AG |
Customer experience
ANC Explorer
Tour Director
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
Tour Director
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ANC Explorer
No in-app purchases
Tour Director
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ANC Explorer free?
Is Tour Director free?
Which has better reviews, ANC Explorer or Tour Director?
Do ANC Explorer or Tour Director have ads?
Which is updated more often, ANC Explorer or Tour Director?
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