ANC Explorer vs Gotcha Technologies
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.
Gotcha Technologies
Easily find, unlock, and ride electric bikes and scooters for convenient urban travel. This app simplifies your commute, offering a sustainable and hassle-free way to get around. Use one app to access multiple ride options across various cities and campuses.
- Find electric bikes and scooters
- Unlock rides easily
- Ride and drop off
- Access multiple ride options
- Sustainable shared mobility
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Calling all bike buds and scooterists: your future is electric. Gotcha is here to help you get around and go about your day more easily. We make it easy to find, unlock, ride, and drop off your ride of choice. No muss or fuss or parking tickets, or traffic, or frustrating commutes. Try out any of our systems and use one app to roll multiple ways, available in many cities and college campuses throughout the country. We are also known as BOLT and BOLTMOBILITY. What makes Gotcha tick? We’re loyal to one mission: empowering people to lead better lives through sustainable shared mobility. When you ride with Gotcha, you ride with a fierce group of advocates who make your experience fun, easy, safe, and dependable. for More information check our website https://www.boltgotcha.com/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gotcha Technologies at 4.6 against ANC Explorer's 3.0. Gotcha Technologies also leads on ratings volume (6.4K vs 55) and review sentiment (47% vs 38%). ANC Explorer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, 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.
Gotcha Technologies holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gotcha Technologies has 6.4K ratings behind it against 55, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of ANC Explorer's written reviews are positive against 47% of Gotcha Technologies's.
ANC Explorer ships an update every 2 months, Gotcha Technologies every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ANC Explorer | Gotcha Technologies |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (55 ratings) | 4.6 (6.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews | 47.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 | 6.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arlington National Cemetery | Gotcha Media Holdings, LLC |
Customer experience
ANC Explorer
Gotcha Technologies
User reviews
ANC Explorer
From 55 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
Gotcha Technologies
From 6.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 🚀 Fun ride
- 🚀 Convenient locations
- 👍 Good customer service
- 👍 Helpful staff
Room to improve
- 🐛 Unreliable bikes
- 🐛 Bikes not working
- 🐛 Charging issues
- 🔋 Battery life problems
- 💰 Expensive
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
Gotcha Technologies
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezing and crashing
- Incorrect ride time and charges
- Inability to end rides properly
Requested features
3 requests- Better app instructions
- Improved bike maintenance
- More transparent pricing
In-app purchases
ANC Explorer
No in-app purchases
Gotcha Technologies
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ANC Explorer free?
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