Doyle Guides vs Clearance Compass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Doyle Guides
Access comprehensive sailing guides for the southern Caribbean, featuring nautical charts, regulations, services, and points of interest. The app offers an interactive map with user-generated comments and corrections, all free to use. In-app purchases provide access to detailed guide book content.
- Comprehensive sailing guides
- Nautical charts and navigation
- Interactive satellite map
- 3000+ points of interest database
- User comments and corrections
- Island-specific content bundles
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Doyle Guides produces the southern Caribbean's most comprehensive and up-to-date sailing guides, complete with nautical charts and navigational information, details on regulations, customs and immigration, general and technical yacht services, marinas, restaurants, provisioning, shore-based attractions, and more. The Doyle Guides mobile app allows users to search our comprehensive 3000+ point of interest database with results shown based on distance from the user and displayed on an interactive satellite map where users can leave public comments as well as suggest corrections and new points of interest, all free of charge. Subscriptions to guide book content is available on both long and short term basis, as well as bundled by island.
Clearance Compass
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Clearance Compass helps you navigate international arrivals with less stress, less paperwork, and less time spent searching for answers online. Built for cruising sailors, trawlers, and long-distance boaters, the app brings together practical port guidance, clearance information, and structured arrival steps in one place. Instead of piecing together entry rules from scattered articles, websites, and forum posts, you get clear, useful guidance designed for real journeys. With Clearance Compass, you can prepare for arrivals faster, understand formalities more easily, and move from port to port with greater confidence. Spend less time dealing with bureaucracy — and more time enjoying the voyage. Features include: - port-specific arrival and clearance guidance - country-specific entry information - practical, guided clearance steps - less paperwork stress before landfall - faster preparation for each destination - beginner-friendly information for real-world cruising - support for smoother port-to-port travel Clearance Compass is designed to make every arrival calmer, clearer, and easier. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://clearancecompass.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
Doyle Guides and Clearance Compass 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
Both are free to download. Doyle Guides sells 18 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Clearance Compass sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $24.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Doyle Guides | Clearance Compass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (50 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Doyle Publishing Limited | KJELD KARIM BERG MASSALI |
In-app purchases
Doyle Guides
- Trinidad & Tobago - 1 month3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Martinique Sailing Guide3 Days trial$19.991 Month
- St. Lucia Sailing Guide3 Days trial$19.991 Month
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- St. Vincent Sailing Guide3 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Grenada Package - 1 month3 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Trinidad Tobago Sailing Guide7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Martinique Sailing Guide7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- St. Lucia Sailing Guide7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- St. Vincent Sailing Guide7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Grenada Package - 12 months7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Southern Leeward Sailing Guide3 Days trial$24.991 Month
- Northern Leeward Sailing Guide3 Days trial$24.991 Month
- Windward Islands Guide3 Days trial$29.991 Month
- BVI Cruising Guide3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Windward Islands Guide7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Virgin Islands Cruising Guide3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Leeward Islands Sailing Guide3 Days trial$39.991 Month
- Leeward Islands Sailing Guide7 Days trial$59.991 Year
Clearance Compass
- Clearance Compass Premium1 Year trial$24.991 Year
Questions
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