Temple Square vs Prairie Sentinels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Temple Square
This app serves as an official visitor companion for Temple Square, offering tools to discover experiences, plan your visit, and navigate the grounds. It provides personalized itineraries, ticket reservations for select events, and an interactive map to enhance your exploration.
- Discover tours, exhibits, events, artwork, and films
- Personalized visit planning
- Reserve tickets for select tours and events
- Interactive map for navigation
- Guided audio experiences
- Recommendations based on interests and time
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The Temple Square App is the official visitor companion for Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. It helps guests discover experiences, plan their visit, reserve tickets, and navigate the grounds with ease. Visitors can explore tours, exhibits, events, artwork, and films, with recommendations based on personal interests and available time. A personalized visit plan makes it easy to organize experiences and move at a comfortable pace throughout the day. For select tours and events, visitors can reserve tickets directly in the app. Time-based reservations help manage capacity and ensure a smooth arrival experience, with clear guidance provided for entry and timing. An interactive map helps visitors find locations and key amenities across Temple Square. The app also includes guided audio experiences at select locations, offering historical context and stories that enhance on-site exploration. Designed for both first-time and returning visitors, the Temple Square App supports a thoughtful, informed, and meaningful visit.
Prairie Sentinels
Discover and track historical grain elevators across the Canadian prairies. This app provides a map view of standing and lost elevators, allowing you to mark visited locations and learn about these disappearing landmarks.
- Map view of grain elevators
- Track visited locations
- Discover nearby elevators
- View elevator status and photos
- Database of historical landmarks
- Color-coded map indicators
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Prairie Sentinels is an explorer's companion for anyone drawn to the iconic grain elevators of the Canadian prairies. Once a defining feature of the prairie skyline, grain elevators are disappearing fast. Prairie Sentinels puts them on the map — literally — so you can discover, track, and learn about the ones that still stand, and remember the ones that are gone. Explore the Map Open the app to a map view showing grain elevators across the prairies. Tap any marker to see what's there — name, location, current status, and photos. Zoom out to see the full sweep of the prairie landscape. Zoom in to plan your next drive. Track Your Visits Mark elevators as visited as you explore. At a glance, the color-coded map tells you which ones you've seen, which are still standing, which have been lost, and which are yet to be confirmed. Discover What's Near You Use your location to find elevators in your area, or explore anywhere on the map to plan ahead. Whether you're on a road trip through Saskatchewan or just passing through a small Manitoba town, there's likely a sentinel nearby. A Living Record The database behind Prairie Sentinels is an ongoing effort to document these landmarks. Some entries are well-documented. Others are mysteries waiting to be uncovered. Prairie Sentinels is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. Available in English and French.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Prairie Sentinels at 5.0 against Temple Square's 4.5. Temple Square's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (59 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Prairie Sentinels holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Temple Square has 59 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Temple Square ships an update fortnightly, Prairie Sentinels every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Temple Square | Prairie Sentinels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (59 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Lonnie Millett |
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Temple Square
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In-app purchases
Temple Square
No in-app purchases
Prairie Sentinels
No in-app purchases








