Comparison

MarineChimer vs Places by Gyroscope

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

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About

MarineChimer

This app functions as a ship's bell clock, chiming every half hour with adjustable watch patterns. It displays ship's time, local time, and GMT/UTC, along with current watch progress and remaining time. Ideal for maritime use or any shift-based work.

Highlights
  • Ship's bell chiming every half hour
  • Adjustable watch patterns
  • Displays ship's time, local time, and GMT/UTC
  • Watch progress and remaining time display
  • Individual watch chiming/notifications
  • 15-minute pre-watch warning
Features
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Chimes as a Ships Bell every 1/2 hour w/ adjustable watch patterns. Like eight bells. Marine Chiming Clock w/multiple clock faces for ships time, local time and gmt/utc Displays an adjustable watch(shift) progress display and who is on now. MarineChimer is a Ship's Bell chiming clock app w/watch(shift)display, that chimes according to watch progress. Now with individual watch chiming / own watch notification. Displays Ships Time, GMT/UTC and Local Time. The Mobile phone clock that not only tells you the time by chiming bells, but also display details of the current watch and how long is left of it. A must have for anyone that sail a boat / yacht to a watch system, or on a ship with an offset Ships Time. Can also be used for other shift applications or just as a way of telling the time by sound. Handy to keep track of time in the dark. With adjustable watch patterns: watch length, number of watches, 1’st watch start time and on watch names. Can be used to simply chime the time For skippers: Display it prominently in your wheelhouse or at your chart table, to give you and your crew a halve hourly reminder of lookout on wheel or duty changes, like they do on the tallships, and in the navy with their eight bells clock. For crew members: Keep it in your inner pocket of your waterproofs on watch and it will keep you updated on progress by way of scheduled chiming notifications. Now it can alternatively be set to individual watch chiming so it will only chime on your watch. It will also give you a 15 minute pre watch warning. Chiming Sequence: 00:30 : single chime 01:00 : double chime 01:30 : double + single chime 02:00 : 2 double chimes 02:30 : 2 double + single chime 03:00 : 3 double chimes 03:30 : 3 double + single chime 04:00 : 4 double chimes 04:30 : 4 double + single chime 05:00 : 5 double chimes 05:30 : 5 double + single chime 06:00 : 6 double chimes 15min pre watch warning: single and double chimes. If you just want a chiming clock, set the start time to 00:00, Watch Length to 6 and Number Of Watches to 4, and it will chime halve hourly in 6 hour periods. If you want it to stop scheduling chimes(notifications), press MarineChimer's Main page lower right button so it displays "Stopped" Multilingual; Adjustable to : English, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Hindu, Arabic For more info visit our website: http://www.moonc.mobi Any questions email: info@moonc.mobi

About

Places by Gyroscope

Automatically maps your travels and creates a detailed timeline of your life. Track places visited, transportation methods, and connect with Apple Health for activity analytics. Share your journeys privately or with select friends.

Highlights
  • Automatic life mapping
  • Detailed travel timeline
  • Dozens of travel type tracking
  • Apple Health integration
  • Customizable share cards
  • Work and mileage tracking
  • Private by default sharing
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Places by Gyroscope is the easiest and most powerful way to track your life. Turn on the tracker once. Places quietly maps everywhere you go, and how you got there. Open the app tonight, next week, or five years from now, and it is all there: a detailed timeline and map of where you went. Not just the places (restaurants, cafes, work, the gym, thousands of custom locations) but the trips between them. Did you walk? Drive? Take a bus, a train, a rideshare, a bike? Dozens of travel types are available, to capture the complete timeline of your life—the places you go, and the travels that take you there. You probably remember what you did today. Maybe yesterday. But what about last week? Three months ago? Five years back? Memory fades fast. Places is designed to automatically capture it. And with Places Unlimited, you can store your full life history with no limits. (New accounts get 30 days of complimentary storage, with the option to export at any time) AN AUTOMATIC JOURNAL See where your time actually went. Reflect on your week. Read the story of your life, written by simply living it. LIVE AN ACTIVE LIFESTYLE Connect your Apple Health to see analytics of your steps, VO2Max and workouts. Places gives you the tracking and feedback to live and maintain an active lifestyle. TRAVEL, AND SHARE IT Customizable share cards export maps, timelines and visualizations of any trip, whether it was around your neighborhood or around the world. Post them, send them to a few close friends, or keep them entirely to yourself. WORK AND MILEAGE Track driving in a company vehicle for mileage logs and tax forms. Track hours on a jobsite for billing. If your job requires you to be somewhere, Places is the record, and it saves hours of manual entry. FOR THE WORLD TRAVELER Every city and country you have been to, with the time you spent in each. Useful for tax residency, visa applications, Schengen day counts, and medical forms. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Sharing is granular, so you decide exactly what leaves your phone: anonymized city stats, a simple visualization, or a detailed map. Your data is never sold. There are no ads. Places is part of the Gyroscope network and uses the same account as the Gyroscope app and website. MEMBERSHIP Free members get 30 days of storage to see how it works and to start building their timeline for zero cost. During that time, you can save unlimited images or export your data as CSVs. Premium membership unlocks advanced reports and analytics, with unlimited storage in Gyroscope Cloud so your whole history lives in one place across years or decades. Membership is what funds the service, and we never show ads or sell data. Gyroscope Places Premium is an annual subscription, costing $96/year in the United States. Prices may vary by region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically each year unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. WHAT MEMBERS SAY "Love being able to go back in time, it feels like a superpower at times. As Jobs once said, you can only connect the dots looking backwards." - Mert "I use Gyroscope daily to track my path through the world and as a historic look back to see where I have been." - Joseph "As a travel enthusiast I really enjoy this feature, and even when not traveling to any exotic location I just like keeping track of where I have been every day." - Patriq Terms of Use: https://gyrosco.pe/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://gyrosco.pe/privacy/

Screenshots

MarineChimer4 screens
Places by Gyroscope4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Places by Gyroscope at 90% against MarineChimer's 18%. Places by Gyroscope also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.8) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 15 months). MarineChimer's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. MarineChimer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Places by Gyroscope sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $96.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Places by Gyroscope holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of MarineChimer's written reviews are positive against 90% of Places by Gyroscope's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MarineChimer ships an update every 15 months, Places by Gyroscope every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
MarineChimer versus Places by Gyroscope: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarineChimerPlaces by Gyroscope
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (9 ratings)4.8 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews18.2% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings921 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB87 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMoonC.mobiGyroscope Innovations

Customer experience

MarineChimer

All ratings9 ratings
Positive22.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative77.8%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive18.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative81.8%

Places by Gyroscope

All ratings17 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MarineChimer

One-time1
  • MarineChimer FullAccess$1.99
1 purchases

Places by Gyroscope

Subscriptions1
  • Places Unlimited$96.001 Year

Questions

Is MarineChimer free?
MarineChimer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Places by Gyroscope free?
Places by Gyroscope is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MarineChimer or Places by Gyroscope?
Places by Gyroscope is rated higher. MarineChimer averages 1.8 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Places by Gyroscope averages 4.8 from 21 ratings.
Do MarineChimer or Places by Gyroscope have ads?
Neither MarineChimer nor Places by Gyroscope shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MarineChimer or Places by Gyroscope?
MarineChimer ships an update every 15 months, and Places by Gyroscope every 9 days. Most recently, MarineChimer was updated on November 1, 2026 and Places by Gyroscope on November 9, 2026.

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