Comparison

LevelThings vs Watch Tower Pro

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

Head to head
About

LevelThings

Features
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Level Things Turn your iPhone into a reliable, accurate spirit level and inclinometer. Level Things is a simple yet feature-packed tool for checking level, plumb, and measuring angles. In Level mode, audio tones guide you to level hands-free. The tone pulses faster as you approach level and becomes a solid sound when you're within a tenth of a degree. Two on-screen bubble vials — one horizontal, one vertical — give you an instant visual reference for both level and plumb. In Inclinometer mode, the current angle is spoken aloud at a regular interval so you can measure without looking at the screen. Set a zero reference to measure the difference between two surfaces. Use any edge of your phone as your measuring surface. Four on-screen buttons let you tell the app which edge is pointing down, and the display adjusts automatically. Calibrate the left and right edges with a simple two-point method for maximum accuracy. Freeze a reading with the volume down button. Fully compatible with VoiceOver.

About

Watch Tower Pro

This app maps over 648,000 public surveillance cameras globally, including traffic, police, and CCTV. It provides privacy awareness by showing camera locations and offering optional proximity alerts, allowing informed decisions about your surroundings. The entire database is available offline.

Highlights
  • Global public camera database (648,000+)
  • Offline functionality
  • Proximity alerts for cameras
  • Color-coded camera types
  • Search by location
  • Report missing cameras
Features
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Watch Tower Pro maps 670,000+ publicly documented surveillance cameras worldwide — government CCTV, police license-plate readers (ALPR), speed and red-light enforcement, traffic monitoring, and dome cameras — and alerts you before you walk or drive into range. Most people pass a dozen cameras a day without noticing. Watch Tower Pro is a privacy-awareness tool: it shows you what's documented so you can make informed decisions about where you go and how you get there. WHAT'S NEW IN 1.4.2 - Refreshed worldwide database: 670,344 cameras, rebuilt across all seven continents and de-duplicated so no two entries share a location. - Wider detection of mapped cameras, especially speed, red-light and plate-reader sites. - Fixes to the camera-reporting screen and the Settings source list. WHAT IT DOES - Works completely offline. The entire worldwide database ships inside the app — no signal needed, no server to query. - Color-codes every camera by type so you can tell an ALPR from a traffic cam at a glance. - Optional proximity alerts: a local notification when you enter the range of an alert-eligible camera. Choose which types alert you and how close. - Travel mode widens coverage automatically when you're driving so alerts fire at highway speed. - Nearby list ranks every documented camera within 8 km by distance, with the operator where known. - Directions to any camera, plus a link to its public source record. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO - No accounts. No login. No analytics. No tracking. No ads. - Your location never leaves your device. Alerts use iOS region monitoring entirely on the phone. - We do not collect, store, or transmit any personal data. Camera reports are ordinary emails you send yourself. - We do not include residential cameras (Ring, Blink, Nest, etc.). Their locations aren't public, and aggregating them would be wrong. LIMITATIONS Public databases lag reality. A missing marker does not mean there's no camera there — treat all public space as observed. Reported cameras are reviewed by a person and added in the next data update, never posted automatically. DATA SOURCES Almost every location comes from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), including the plate-reader locations, which are ordinary OpenStreetMap nodes. A smaller set comes from camera feeds published openly by government transportation agencies. Each camera's detail screen credits its source and links to the original record. Watch Tower Pro is informational, not legal advice. By using it you agree to use it for lawful, defensive privacy-awareness purposes only. Made by BlackFox Media LLC.

Screenshots

LevelThings3 screens
Watch Tower Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LevelThings at $0.99 against Watch Tower Pro's $4.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

LevelThings costs $0.99 and Watch Tower Pro $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
LevelThings versus Watch Tower Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLevelThingsWatch Tower Pro
Price$0.99 — better$4.99
Rating—4.2 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTEN3 Software LLCBlackfox Media LLC

In-app purchases

None

LevelThings

No in-app purchases

None

Watch Tower Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LevelThings free?
LevelThings costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Watch Tower Pro free?
Watch Tower Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do LevelThings or Watch Tower Pro have ads?
Neither LevelThings nor Watch Tower Pro shows ads.

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