Comparison

Enchanted Assistant vs Bearings

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

Head to head
About

Enchanted Assistant

This app acts as a personal travel assistant, remembering your plans and preferences to help manage trip details. It serves as a digital concierge, handling logistics so you can focus on enjoying your travels.

Highlights
  • Personalized trip memory
  • Travel party management
  • Daily needs assistance
  • Digital concierge service
  • Trip detail management
Features
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Meet Stacy, your personal travel assistant that fits in your pocket! She remembers you, your plans, your travel party, and anything else you tell her about your trip. She is there to help you every step of the way for your travels and every day needs. Let her be your person concierge and let her worry about all the details! So you can enjoy your trip.

About

Bearings

Discover the history and culture of your surroundings with personalized audio tours. Choose your interests and explore landmarks, architecture, and hidden stories as you walk or drive. The app offers a unique way to understand the places you visit, with saved outings and the ability to ask about anything you see.

Highlights
  • Personalized audio tours
  • Interest-based content selection
  • Explore by walking or driving
  • Ask about anything you see
  • Saved outing journal
  • Themed exploration
Features
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Walk or drive anywhere. Bearings tells you the story of the world around you, out loud, as you pass it. It's an audio tour with no route to follow and nothing to buy per city. It works wherever you are, and your first 20 stories are free. Personalized to your interests, it reveals the landmarks, history, culture, people, architecture, and hidden stories you might otherwise miss. PERSONALIZED TO YOU Everyone notices something different when they travel. Bearings learns what catches your attention and shapes each experience around it. Love history? Architecture? Movies? Art? Sports? Local legends? Choose your interests, add anything you're curious about, and hear more of what matters to you. Two people can explore the same place and discover different things. WALK. DRIVE. WANDER. Explore on foot and uncover what's hiding in the streets around you. Take a road trip and discover the places, events, and people connected to the landscape outside your window. Visit somewhere famous or wander somewhere you've never heard of. Bearings isn't a navigation app. It won't choose your route or tell you where to turn. Think of it as the passenger who knows the area: the one who points out the window and tells you why that hill has a name. There's no fixed tour and no checklist to finish. Go wherever looks interesting. Bearings comes with you. EXPLORE THROUGH ANY THEME Choose a theme and experience the world around you through an entirely different lens. Explore New York through its architecture. Discover London through rock & roll. Walk through Rome focused on the ancient world. Turn a road trip into a journey through local legends, famous movies, military history, or almost anything else you're curious about. You choose the lens. Bearings connects it to the places around you. ASK ABOUT ANYTHING Wondering about something out the window? Ask, and Bearings answers on the spot. Every answer knows exactly where you are and what you're looking at. TRY IT FROM HOME Pick a start, a destination, and a speed to hear the trip play out as if you were on it. You get up to two practice runs before your first real walk or drive. DISCOVER WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE MISSED The building you almost walked past. The event that shaped the landscape outside your window. The movie filmed around the corner. The remarkable story hiding behind an ordinary-looking street. Every outing is saved to your journal with its route and stories, ready to revisit or share. Don't just go places. Understand them. SUBSCRIPTIONS Bearings includes 20 free stories, plus up to two practice runs that don't count toward them. This allowance is included with the app and is not a free trial of a paid plan. No subscription begins automatically when it runs out. - Monthly Membership: $5.99 per month. Renews automatically each month until canceled. - Founding Explorer: $29.99 per year. Renews automatically each year at the same price until canceled. - Trip Pass: $9.99 one-time purchase. Includes unlimited access for one trip. It is not a subscription and does not renew. Prices are shown in U.S. dollars. Your local price is displayed before you confirm a purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel a subscription at any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://travelwithbearings.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://travelwithbearings.com/privacy ACCURACY AND SAFETY Most of what you hear comes from public sources, and AI turns it into narration as you go. Nobody checks each story first, so it can get a date, name or detail wrong. Don't rely on Bearings for directions, safety information, or decisions about whether a location is open, accessible, or safe to enter. Don't interact with the screen while driving. Set up Bearings before you go and let the audio do the rest.

Screenshots

Enchanted Assistant1 screens
Bearings4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Enchanted Assistant at none against Bearings's 3. Enchanted Assistant also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Bearings's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and chart position (#191 vs unranked). 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. Bearings sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Enchanted Assistant asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Enchanted Assistant against 4.4 for Bearings. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bearings has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Enchanted Assistant's written reviews are positive against 83% of Bearings's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Enchanted Assistant ships an update monthly, Bearings weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Enchanted Assistant versus Bearings: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEnchanted AssistantBearings
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better4.4 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings211 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#191 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB71 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developershawn priceMcGlaflin Labs, LLC

Customer experience

Enchanted Assistant

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bearings

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

Enchanted Assistant

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Bearings

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership$5.991 Month
  • Founding Explorer$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Trip Pass$9.99

Questions

Is Enchanted Assistant free?
Enchanted Assistant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bearings free?
Bearings is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Enchanted Assistant or Bearings?
Enchanted Assistant is rated higher. Enchanted Assistant averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Bearings averages 4.4 from 11 ratings.
Do Enchanted Assistant or Bearings have ads?
Neither Enchanted Assistant nor Bearings shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Enchanted Assistant or Bearings?
Enchanted Assistant ships an update monthly, and Bearings weekly. Most recently, Enchanted Assistant was updated on October 30, 2026 and Bearings on November 6, 2026.

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