Comparison

Cruisebound vs Cast About Compass

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cruisebound

Organize all your cruise trip details in one convenient app. Track departure dates with a customizable countdown and easily manage your reservations. Perfect for both first-time cruisers and seasoned travelers looking to stay organized.

Highlights
  • Centralized cruise details
  • Customizable countdown widget
  • Reservation management
  • Trip organization
  • Departure tracking
Features
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Cruisebound keeps all your cruise details in one place, making trip planning simple. Track the days until departure with a customizable countdown widget and manage your reservations with ease. Whether you're preparing for your first cruise or your next one, Cruisebound helps you stay organized. More features coming soon. Download now and get ready for your next trip.

About

Cast About Compass

Effortlessly organize complex trips by automatically parsing travel confirmations from your email. View your itinerary day-by-day, access important documents offline, and share your journey with companions. It also functions as a travel journal and allows you to send digital postcards.

Highlights
  • Automatic itinerary building from email
  • Offline access to travel documents
  • Integrated travel journal
  • Digital postcard sending
  • Trip sharing with companions
  • Detailed day-by-day trip breakdown
Features
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Paste in or forward your confirmations from your emails. Watch your trip build itself. Forward a cruise booking, a flight, a hotel, a rental car — from any line, any agent, any airline — and Compass reads it and lays your trip out day by day. Ports and sailing times. Check-in and check-out. Confirmation numbers, seat assignments, the lot. You don't type any of it. Most travel apps make you a data-entry clerk before they help you. This one doesn't. BUILT FOR THE COMPLICATED TRIPS Fourteen ports and a flight home. A tour with three hotels and a train between them. The trip that changed twice before you left. That's what Compass is for, not a weekend away. Every day sits in order, with what's happening and when. Where you're sleeping, how you're getting there, what you've already booked. One screen. No hunting through a folder of emails at the pier. EVERYTHING IN YOUR POCKET, EVEN OFFLINE Passports, visas, insurance, booking numbers — all in one place, and readable when the ship's Wi-Fi gives up on you. Which it will. A JOURNAL YOU'LL ACTUALLY KEEP Write a couple of lines. Add the photos you took that afternoon. It quietly turns into something worth reading years later, and you never had to set anything up. SEND A POSTCARD FROM THE ROAD Pick a photo from this morning, write a line under it, and it's in their inbox before dinner. No stamp, no three-week wait, no post office in a language you don't read. BRING WHOEVER'S COMING WITH YOU Your travelling companion sees the same trip and can add to it. Anyone else you invite can look without changing a thing. No more forwarding the same email six times. REMEMBER THE PEOPLE, NOT JUST THE PLACES The couple from dinner on night three. The guide who was worth every penny. Snap a photo, add a name, and they're still there next year when you're trying to remember it. WHAT IT COSTS Your first month is free and nothing is held back — every feature, the whole time. After that it's $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year. Cancel from Settings in two taps, whenever you like. Cast About Compass is made by Cast About Travel, for people who take real trips.

Screenshots

Cruisebound4 screens
Cast About Compass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cruisebound at none against Cast About Compass's 2. Cruisebound also leads on ratings volume (554 vs 1). Cast About Compass's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cast About Compass sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Cruisebound asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Cruisebound against 5.0 for Cast About Compass. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cruisebound has 554 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cruisebound ships an update monthly, Cast About Compass every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Cruisebound versus Cast About Compass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCruiseboundCast About Compass
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (554 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings554 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCruisebound, Inc.Robert Hoeffner

Customer experience

Cruisebound

All ratings451 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%

Cast About Compass

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cruisebound

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Cast About Compass

Subscriptions2
  • Cast About Compass Premium1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Compass Premium Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Cruisebound free?
Cruisebound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cast About Compass free?
Cast About Compass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cruisebound or Cast About Compass?
Cast About Compass is rated higher. Cruisebound averages 4.9 out of 5 from 554 ratings, while Cast About Compass averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cruisebound or Cast About Compass have ads?
Neither Cruisebound nor Cast About Compass shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cruisebound or Cast About Compass?
Cruisebound ships an update monthly, and Cast About Compass every 2 weeks. Most recently, Cruisebound was updated on November 8, 2026 and Cast About Compass on October 31, 2026.

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