Find a Grave vs GC Wizard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Find a Grave
Access the world's largest free online collection of burial information. Search millions of graves, add new memorials with photos and GPS, and find loved ones' resting places. Honor ancestors by creating memorials and sharing discoveries.
- Search 250+ million graves
- Add memorials and photos
- Record GPS locations
- Create ancestor memorials
- Share discoveries
- Manage user profiles
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The Find a Grave app is a great way to use and add to the world’s largest free online collection of burial information. Quickly search more than 265 million graves in half a million cemeteries around the world. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. Easily add information for multiple graves by photographing and then uploading them for future transcription. Find and visit a loved one’s final resting place anywhere, anytime. Request a headstone photo or snap one yourself and share it instantly. Honor your ancestors by creating memorials. All this and more with just a few taps. Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free + Find cemeteries near you and locate grave sites of your loved ones through a simple search + Add headstones photo and GPS coordinates + Create memorials with bios and photos + Share discoveries through Facebook, emails, text messages + Manage your profile and see the profiles of others + Track your own memorials, photos, and virtual cemeteries
GC Wizard
This open-source tool collection offers a wide range of cryptographic, geographic, and scientific calculations. It's designed to assist with in-field mysteries and riddles, but its extensive features make it useful for many non-geocaching tasks.
- Formula Solver for multi-stage variables
- Multi Decoder with various interpreters
- Over 200 symbol table sets
- High-precision coordinate algorithms
- Support for multiple coordinate formats
- Enigma simulator
- Color space converter
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The GC Wizard is an open-source tool collection. It was originally created to offer Geocachers an offline tool to support them with in-field mysteries and riddles. So, the GC Wizard contains numerous tools for simple cryptography, geographic and scientific calculations as well as hundreds of sets of various symbols. Meanwhile the project became very huge and might be practicable for many non-Geocaching issues. General • Formula Solver: For handling multi stage variables • Multi Decoder: Enter an unknown code and let several decoders and calculators interpret it in a row • More than 200 sets of Symbol Tables: Direct decoding symbols to characters; save own encoding as an image • Online Manual: Every tool has its own manual page Cryptography & Encodings • Alphabet Values (A = 1, B = 2, ...): Configurable alphabets with language specific special character handling • Braille graphical decoder: Type the points into a graphical interface; supports different languages • Book Cipher: Choose the correct system (e.g. Line + Letter Number or Section + Line + Word Number, ...), handle special characters and empty lines, ... • Enigma: A full working Enigma simulator incl. numerous possible settings • Esoteric Languages: Generators and interpretors for several esoteric programming languages like Brainf**k, Ook, Malbolge and Chef • Morse • Numeral Words: Lists of important numbers in different languages. For English + German there are parsers to identify even complex numeral words • Substitution and Vigenère Code Breakers: Try to find the solution without knowing the keys • Classic Codes: Playfair, Polybios, Railfence, ... • Historic codes: Caesar, Vigenènere, telegraph codes, ... • Military codes: ADFGX, Cipher Wheel, Tapir, ... • Technical encodings: BCD, CCITT, Hashes (incl. brute-force hash breaker), RSA, ... Coordinates • High precision coordinate algorithms which support precise calculations even with very long distances by always considering the earth's shape (ellipsoid) • Support of different ellipsoids, even other planets • Coordinate Formats: Support of UTM, MGRS, XYZ, SwissGrid, NAC, PlusCode, Geohash, ... • Waypoint Projection: Includes precise reverse projection • Open Map: Set own points and lines, measure paths, export as and import from GPX/KML; OpenStreetMap and satellite view • Variable Coordinate: Interpolate coordinate formulas if some parts of coordinate are not given. Show result on map • Cross bearing, Center point of two and three coordinates, different intersections of lines and circles, ... Science and Technology • Astronomy: Calculate position of sun and moon at a certain place and time • Color Space Converter: Convert color values between RGB, HSL, Hex, CMYK, ... • Countries: ISO, calling and vehicle registration codes, flags • Date and Time functions: Weekday, time differences, ... • Irrational Numbers: π, φ and e: Show and search up to > 1 Mio. digits • Number sequences: Factorial, Fibonacci and Co. • Numeral Systems: Converts decimal to binary, hexadecimal, ... • Periodic Table of the Elements: Interactive view; lists which order the elements by any criterion • Phone Keys: Converts classic phone keys to letters. Supports phone model specific behaviours • Prime Numbers: Search prime numbers up to 1 Mio. • Segment Display: Graphical interface for decoding and encoding 7 to 16 segment displays • Unit Converter: Length, Volume, Pressure, Power and many more; convert between common units incl. prefixes like micro and kilo • Apparent Temperature, Cross Sums, DTMF, Keyboard layouts, Projectiles, Resistor codes, ... Images and Files • Hex Viewer • Exif/Metadata Viewer • Analyse frames of Animated Images • Color corrections: Adjust contrast, saturation, edge detection, ... • Search for Hidden Data or hidden archives • Read QR/Barcodes from images, create them from binary input
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Find a Grave at 3.6K against GC Wizard's 5. Find a Grave also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). GC Wizard's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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.
GC Wizard holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Find a Grave has 3.6K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Find a Grave ships an update every 9 days, GC Wizard every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Find a Grave | GC Wizard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.6K ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.6K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ancestry.com | Mark Lorenz |
Customer experience
Find a Grave
GC Wizard
Bugs and requests
Find a Grave
Reported bugs
4 issues- Server errors and inability to load memorials
- Issues with uploading and editing photos
- Problems with signing in and accessing account features
- Inconsistent behavior across iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to message other users within the app
- Improve search functionality and allow for more flexible searches
- Integrate with Ancestry.com for seamless family tree integration
- Add option to set default location/cemetery preferences
- Improve GPS and mapping features to better locate graves
GC Wizard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Find a Grave
No in-app purchases
GC Wizard
No in-app purchases







