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11 best tour guide apps to create amazing tourism experiences

In this article, you will get a short overview of 11 tour guide apps that give you the possibility to build your own tour routes or add audio guides to specific locations. There are many ways to explore a city or a route. No matter if it is a walking tour , sailing, boats, train trips, food tour , bicycle sightseeing, birdwatching , or rally with cars , in 2022 technology offers multiple ways to enrich the experience.

Tour guide apps suit well to introduce the best locations and facts about a destination to a foreigner as well to locals who can find hidden gems or experience an adventurous mystery story-game about their home location. As a tour company, the range of platforms you can choose to build the experience your customers will benefit from is wide.

As of 2022, most tour guide apps cover at least the basics – setting up a route, points of interest, adding media files like mp3, images, and video to each location, and offline tours. The apps included in this article, do all of the mentioned, but we also point out the specific differences of each app to emphasise the strengths of each one.

With Loquiz tour guide app you can build indoor and outdoor self-guided routes with the amount of gamification you need. Special features: a tour template for tourism businesses that allows building layers of different waypoints of interest within a destination. What cuts it apart is API which connects to booking and ticketing platforms. Secondly, there is a powerful content editor to keep the ever changing info about locations in sync with the possibility of translating the app to any real or imaginary language on Earth. Try out for an instance a sample tour of Paris. Download the Loquiz app from Google Play or App Store and scan the QR code on the image below. (alternatively username: GEMPARISTour and password: justvisitit will also start the game).

2. Pocketsights

Pocketsights is a self-guided tour app focused on community and historical organizations, as well as colleges and universities. Special features involve asking visitors to donate to any charity. Enterprise package involves priority reviews. PI team reviews new and updated tours to ensure they meet quality guidelines. Your tours will go to the top of the review queue and be reviewed before free package tours.

3. Voicemap

Voicemap is solely an audio tour app. It automatically estimates speaking recording times and word counts has support from VM editors with comments, tracked changes and email notifications. Includes text directions as a fallback to make sure listeners don’t get lost. Available in 12 languages.

MyTours includes the same basics as all the other tour guide apps on our list. Multimedia, GPS locations, visitor analytics. Apps work with accessibility options on most devices for the visually- and hearing-impaired. The focus is on building an experience as a self-guided tour app and then publishing it on Apple or Google Play stores. Features 18 different languages.

5. Geotourist

Geotourist lets you build your own journeys and inspire travelers to follow in your footsteps. Audio will trigger as they walk along your dawn path. Tours are available in 40 languages. Specialty is a simple interface aimed at creating a tour guide app in smartphones without detailed settings.

Create games, self-guided and audio tours, team building events and educational content that captures peoples' attention.

6. Locatify

Locatify puts heavy emphasis on indoor positioning. This feature is also present in other walking tour apps in this list, but this platform includes Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, which makes it stand out among others.

Anytour is a self-guided audio tour app for smartphones in 30 cities. The app offers up-to-date audio-guided walks around cities all over the world. The tours are researched, written, and read by locals and travel writers. To create and promote your tours you need to sign up.

Scavify is a scavenger hunt platform that also lets build an experience at destinations that are interactive and impactful for visitors. Incorporates rewards to send visitors to revenue-generating places such as dining, gift shops, and reward visits. Includes linkable banner ads.

Navicup is a new solution for building tours. It allows automatic translation of texts and there is a quality check process before you can publish your tours. Their team will review if the content is ready for public use.

10. Your Audio Tour

Your Audio Tour is the only tour guide app on the list which is focused on audio guides only. It is a simple and straightforward audio guide app solution which has a few advanced features – for example, the text to speech option with a choice of 9+ different voices.

11. GPSmyCity

GPSmyCity is a platform that connects tourists with knowledgeable local guides through self-guided city walks and GPS-powered travel articles. This tour guide app introduces local attractions, malls, restaurants, places of culture, and nightlife. It is all covered with insider knowledge only the locals are privileged to have. The city tour app also has a feature that allows users to create their own walks.

No matter if you are building tours aiming to serve international tourism travelers or delight domestic tourists, a tour guide app can speed up or even automate the sales of tour tickets, engage visitors with easy to edit content, and ease the worries of the workforce.

We hope this article will help you will find a suitable tour guide app to build your awesome products on and, through that, a successful travel season.

*This article is written by the information available on the selected apps websites and reflects only the experience of the author.

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dlcheyne 3 days ago

So glad I this app made our trip great saw things we wouldn’t have seen and learned about the areas and history. Even got to see sea turtles on the beach due to the information on the tour and such easy directions to follow. Looking forward to some of other tours they have now that we are back on the main land. It’s like having your own personal tour guide and flexibility.

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We learned, laughed, enjoyed all the history and legends, plus really enjoyed the food recommendations! The tour was easy and on point! Can’t wait to do Road to Hana tomorrow! Thank you ♥️♥️🌺🌺🌺

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What a great app and tour. Excellent narrator and great job all around. I heavily recommend it.

Stews58 1 week ago

We just finished 2 weeks in Hawaii and we used the Shaka Guide almost every day, with excellent results. The guiding was almost perfect and we were really happy we bought it. Pros - the app gave a nice balance of: - great narration - routes choose interesting locations to visit - well-timed directions that made it easy to get the correct turn - stories of history local to where we were driving (family-friendly, without talking down to us) - humor - music Cons: - Sometimes we missed what the narrator was saying, but we found if we backed up 30 seconds, the directions would get out of sync to where we were. When that happened, the narrator might start a story, which got cut off to tell to turn or it missed giving the turn. - It sometimes got confused if we started a route in the middle, even if we followed all the steps (use Google/Apple Maps to get on-route).

Happy Travelers T&C 1 week ago

My husband and I debated driving the Road to Hana ourselves, but didn’t want to do a tour bus either! Downloaded the app and it was literally the best decision ever! Took all the guesswork out of figuring things out, gave lots of options to customize what you want to see and experience!!! Great advice for safety and tips too and the stories with some history were very entertaining! Wonderful how it just picks up where you are when you start the tour and pause it!!!

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Thank you so much for this guide. Enjoyed listening and learning about Big Bend while driving thru, looking at overlooks and hiking. Will use this guide at other national parks on your apps.

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Every time we go on a trip, we stress out about when to go, where to stay, what to see, etc. Wouldn’t it be great if you had someone with you who had been on that exact trip countless times? Sharing tips and tricks before you even leave your house? Just Ahead does exactly that.

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GuideAlong App Review: Is it Worth Your Time and Money?

On our recent California National Parks Road Trip, we had an opportunity to test out the popular audio tour app from GuideAlong in Yosemite and in Joshua Tree National Parks. I’m going to share all the details of our GuideAlong app review in this article.

I’ll open by saying that GuideAlong lived up to its promise of being the the best road trip companion. We first used the app in Yosemite and found so much value in it that we didn’t hesitate to launch the app when we arrived at Joshua Tree . In fact, we were so pleased that we are now an affiliate for GuideAlong. That means we will receive a small commission if you make a purchase from any of the links in this article. However, that doesn’t mean that we aren’t going to spill all the beans on what worked and what didn’t work for us so you can decide if this audio tour app for your phone is a fit for your vacation.

What is the GuideAlong Tour App (formerly known as Gypsy Guide)?

GuideAlong is a mobile app that provides a unique audio tour as you explore. It is packed with features that help you navigate and discover interesting places and details during your National Park road trip.

The app provides engaging audio commentary on landmarks and other points of interest as you approach them. It covers a wide range of topics, from history to culture to geology. The app also offers GPS-based navigation to help you find your way around. It used to be called Gypsy Guide, but has recently rebranded to GuideAlong.

GuideAlong is available on both iOS and Android platforms, running smoothly on your phone or tablet as you travel.

Review of GuideAlong Features We Liked

There was a lot to like about the GuideAlong app. In this GuideAlong app review I’ll share the good and the bad. Here are some of the app’s best features:

What I loved most:

The number one thing I liked was that I could listen and observe the scenery instead of burying my nose in a map or written guide. I truly hate it when Brad excitedly says “Did you see that?” and I didn’t because my head was down, trying to figure out what’s next.

GPS Based and Offline Accessible

That means you can download the tour to your phone and it will then use GPS to locate you and trigger the appropriate tour narrative. As you likely know, National Parks rarely have cell service so this is a huge win. To our surprise we never had a problem with the tour finding us, even in the most remote parts of the two parks we tested.

Engaging and Informative Commentary

The commentary provides a wealth of information about the places you visit on your trip. The narrator will share stories and cover interesting natural features about sites you are passing. It definitely helps that he has an engaging voice and a sense of humor too. As you pass sites the narrator will also give advice about why you might want to stop, or even why you might want to skip that stop. We also found we learned many things about the parks that we wouldn’t have discovered on our own.

Turn-by-turn directions

The narrator told us what was coming ahead and when there was a choice in roads to take he explained the benefit of each choice. I’ll confess that more than once in Yosemite, he kept us from turning the wrong way. Now, I’m really into using maps, and even with our map we would have screwed up.

Flexible Itinerary

This was a big win for us since we tend to wander when we are traveling. Especially when we have multiple days to explore a National Park. With GuideAlong you can start your tour anywhere along the route. Just start the tour and it will find you and begin narration at that point. You can stop and start as often as you wish. Even the time I forgot to start the tour, it just caught up with us.

Extensive Tour Coverage

Every one of those little dots in the screen shot above is a commentary. In Joshua Tree there were 185 comments and over 200 in Yosemite. For us, it felt just right. The narrative would usually range from 30 to 90 seconds, then a pause until the next point of interest. We enjoyed the pauses as it gave us time to discuss what we were seeing or what was coming ahead. Yeah, we like to talk to each other!

User-Friendly Interface

GuideAlong has a very intuitive design. You just hit the start button and the app does all the work to find you and play along. We did struggle with going back to re-listen to a commentary. However, once we figured it out it seemed pretty simple. Perhaps that was a user distraction issue, not an interface issue.

What We Didn’t Like About GuideAlong

Have no doubt that we are recommending this app in this GuideAlong App Review. We are hooked based on all the great things we listed above. However, there were a few things we found challenging and you should be aware of:

Cell Phone Battery Drain

The constant pinging of satellites used a lot of battery power. We were fine as long as I kept my phone plugged in to the car charger. But if you forget to turn off the Guide when you leave the car, you’ll find the battery going fast. Of course, the solution is to close the app when you stop your car as it will automatically find you when you re-launch it.

Dead Silence Between Commentaries

You’ll hear dead silence between each point of interest. We discussed this a lot and changed our minds several times about if it was good or bad. On one side, it was nice to be able to have a conversation when the narrator was not talking. And it probably saves battery resources to not play continuously. I’ll guess there are other tech issues too. However there were several times we wondered if the app was working and there was no way to know until we hit the next point.

We Wanted More Parks!

On our California Road Trip we explored 8 National Parks, however only 2 had GuideAlong Tours available. So sad! Currently tours are available for 18 of the 63 National Parks (see list below). However, GuideAlong has released several new tours this year and has committed to rapidly expanding their library. We are cheering them on as we look forward to using their tours extensively.

How Does GuideAlong Work?

So I’m not going to get deep into the techy stuff in this GuideAlong app review. You can check out their website if that level of detail gets you excited. What’s important is that GuideAlong tours work from a GPS signal, not a cellular signal so they work great in National Parks where you don’t have cell service.

Using GPS, the app follows you through the park and launches the tour narrative as you approach specific spots along the route. What I loved most is it picked us up at any location we started the app. We didn’t have to start at a pre-determined location. One day I forgot to start the tour but as soon as I turned it on it found us and shared upcoming attractions. That also means it will automatically adjust for any route you take through the park.

Here’s a couple of tips for using GuideAlong

• Purchase your tours in advance. You can purchase on the GuideAlong website or inside the app. Personally I liked purchasing on the website better than the app because it seemed easier to access the details of each tour. Since I’m a planner, that will be part of my planning process going forward! Note, any updates are automatic in the app so you’ll always receive the most current tour when you listen.
• Download the tour inside the app before getting to the the park . As you are likely aware, National Parks rarely have good cell service. So downloading before arriving was the smart thing to do. Of course, with our crazy schedule I didn’t think of that and didn’t download the Yosemite guide until we were in the park. That meant waiting for a strong enough cell signal. Oops… we missed using the app on our first day. And in hindsight, we know we missed some really good stories!
• Connect to your car speakers for the best listening experience. The app plays on your phone, so it will also play through your car speakers if you have synched your phone to your car for other uses, such as talking on your phone or listening to music. However, I will share that the narrator’s voice is strong so if you can’t connect to car speakers the people in the front seat will easily be able to hear him.
• You don’t have to do anything! The narrative will start automatically as you approach interesting locations along your drive.

How Much Does GuideAlong Cost?

It is free to download the GuideAlong app to your phone or tablet. Individual tours, that cover the whole National Park run from $10 to $20. Tours that are commonly part of longer road trips are also available in heavily discounted bundles which will save you quite a bit.

To be blunt, I initially thought that was a lot of money. But I’ve changed my mind and now think these tours are a real value at this price. We’ve used many of the free audio tours provided by the National Parks in the past so I thought: Why would I pay for an audio tour? Well, because the GuideAlong tour is so much more robust that I can’t even begin to compare them. The National Parks audio tours usually focus on a specific nature trail or a limited location. GuideAlong takes you through the whole park. We’ll definitely be using both in the future!

Which National Parks are covered by GuideAlong Tours?

I’ve been told by GuideAlong that they are adding many more tours this year so check their website if you don’t see your National Park. Here’s what is currently available for National Parks

• Acadia National Park, Maine
• Arches National Park, Utah
• Badlands National Park, South Dakota
• Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
• Canyonlands National Park, Utah
• Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
• Glacier National Park, Montana
• Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
• Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park, South Carolina
• Joshua Tree National Park, California
• Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
• Olympic National Park, Washington
• Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
• Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
• Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
• Yosemite National Park, California
• Zion National Park, Utah

Wrapping up

Overall, we are happy to suggest anyone planning a road trip check out the tours on GuideAlong . Without a doubt, the app is easy to use, packed with features and offers a ton of information. The value the audio tour adds to your National Park experience is so worth the small amount of time and money! I hope this GuideAlong app review has been helpful and you enjoy your next adventure to the fullest!

The Authors: Hey, we are Ladona and Brad, avid campers and hikers. We are crazy about getting outdoors at every possible moment and have decades of experience exploring nature. Our current goal is to visit all 63 US National Parks and just completed #42. WooHoo! Our mission is to help you plan your own adventures and create memories beyond your imagination!

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With a smartphone walking tour, how it works, hands free + audio , automatically plays, audio tours play based, on gps location, customer service & support, download on wifi before & preview route  , unlimited tour access take breaks and detours, easy navigation with directions & gps maps, professional tour guides  , no mobile signal or data use required .

• Legendary Hollywood
• Napa & Sonoma Valleys
• Historic Philadelphia
• Washington DC – Walking Tour
• Washington DC – Driving Tour
• The French Quarter
• Rome Eternal
• Barcelona Gothic Quarter
• Dubrovnik Walled City
• Paris La Cité
• Prague – City of Hundred Spires
• San Antonio River Walk & Alamo

About SelfTour

Here are the reasons selftour surpasses all other tours....

All turn-by-turn directions and descriptions are spoken for easy to easy navigation and understanding. Our tours are a complete circle so you end up where you started… not some unknown location!

All information is activated by GPS as you move.

No waiting at a specific time for others to show up. Go when you want, take a brake anytime, and resume at your own pace and schedule.

Should you make a wrong turn, there is a complete map indicating all the sites along the way. Also pictures of the individual sites are available to insure you are looking at the right sight.

Our travel experts do intense research choosing the best sites to see and the accurate information you want to know about each.

Both are available. The platform used in our apps is new technology engineered by iApp Tours using exclusive mobile software.

No more straining or pushing to get close to hear the tour guide. The audio comes directly to your ear buds or car stereo system.

If you missed something in the audio description, or didn’t understand the directions, no problem! Simply touch the position on the phone or tablet map and it will play again.

Excellent writers and professional voice actors, music, sound effects and a light delivery style make the listening fun.

Tour at a fraction of the cost of other paid guided tours. Even “free” guided tours pressure you for a “tip” or to purchase something in the guide’s “favorite store”. Our tours have no advertising or referrals.

If there’s a tour worth taking, it’s worth taking a SelfTour™

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LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD

Language: English Type: Walking Tour

NAPA & SONOMA VALLEYS

Language: English Type: Driving Tour — Great for Biking Too!

Wearing ear buds or headsets while driving is against the law in California.

HISTORIC PHILLY

WASHINGTON DC - WALKING TOUR

ROME ETERNAL

WASHINGTON DC - DRIVING TOUR

Language: English Type: Driving Tour

THE FRENCH QUARTER

BARCELONA GOTHIC QUARTER

DUBROVNIK WALLED CITY

PARIS LA CITÉ

PRAGUE - CITY OF HUNDRED SPIRES

SAN ANTONIO RIVER WALK

MUCH MORE TO COME!

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It was shocking to me to see how many Hollywood tours were being offered on the streets and their high costs.   I went with your $6 tour and found to be much more than I expected.

Great walking tour

Thanks you for putting this tour together. It was very informative and kept us interested with all the added music and voice overs. We liked being able to tour at our own pace.

I liked your Star Walk tour.  Walking along the many stars was more fun having someone tell me who, and about, many of the people honored.

Too much driving on all those small roads, especially in the St. Helena area, so we gave up part way.  What we did hear of the tour was good.

“Best buy for the money. I took the tour half way in two leisurely days. Perfect.”

“It was our first trip to the Napa wine area and we would have been totally lost without this app. It not only took us to a lot of fun places, good wineries and some places we never knew existed, but was enjoyable to listen to. My husband and I highly recommend it.”

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• HOW IT WORKS
• TRIP PLANNERS

GyPSy Guide is now GuideAlong

It’s never been easy to explain simply what GyPSy Guide is.

Sure, we’re GPS-enabled, fully automatic, perfectly timed driving tours that provide interesting, informative, and flexible road tripping, but we are so much more. Road trippers like you tell us this all the time!

But the one thing customers say they love the most about our tours is— it’s like having a tour guide along for the drive. So, we’re changing our name to reflect the most important part of who we are.

Introducing our new name:

Your favorite narrator on every tour is the same, and so is our passionate team behind the scenes, who create all those road-worthy stories and recommendations.

Any purchased tours & bundles remain yours and are found in the My Tours menu.

And to make your road trips EXTRA special in 2023…

Oh, and another exciting piece of news! We’re creating new tours this year and releasing them throughout the road trip season.

We’ll be ready to share the new locations soon. Check your inbox in the coming weeks, you’ll be the first to know.

We can’t wait to to be your GuideAlong on your next road trip.

The GuideAlong Team

Tour Guide System App elysium® tgs

Tours without extra hardware The new App elysium® tgs opens up a new dimension of tour guide systems. A guided tour is possible directly via the familiar smartphone of the participant - without entering personal data of the customer. Hardware-bound audio products are no longer necessary on the tour and more practical features are available at the same time. Knowledge of different apps is also not necessary, because guides and group use the same app. The possible applications are manifold: Groups in tourism, industry and museums , the mobile system ensures optimal transmission of audio between the guide and the visitors at all times via app.

discover elysium ®

Simplest handling First of all, register without obligation on the elysium® platform. Here you will find an overview of the guides, the upcoming tours and the licenses you have purchased. Short term licenses for 24 hours or various long term licenses are available. The long term licenses can be transferred to new visitors during their validity. The apps are installed on the guests smartphones on site. Subsequently, the group participants are conveniently added to the tour via QR code or Session ID . The mobile audio system as an app is ready for use for your guided tours . Wide range of app features In the guest list , the participants of your tour are visible and the distance to the guide is also shown. The useful GPS tracking system clearly marks the guests of the group on a map . The app also offers a dialogue function that can be switched on : The guests on the tour can ask questions to the guide via their devices. The system also has a text messaging feature to send important information from the guide to the apps of the group in advance. The meeting point function is particularly practical: The mobile navigation system guides visitors to a specified meeting point. The user interface of the app elysium® is available in ten different languages . Feel free to contact us.

Your advantages:

Add guests easily and quickly via QR Code

Live-Guiding - the most important function

Where are your group members located?

Send a message to all group members

Your contact person:

Jonas Bayerlein Sales +49-7951-9622-150  [email protected]

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The Tour Guide App

Help your visitors get around by using our interactive technology.

Provide Your Visitors With an Interactive Way to Explore Everything You Have to Offer Using GPS and Our Mobile Technology

Our mobile app will guide your visitors from one point of interest to the next using GPS. Our tour builder allows you to create a tour route that takes your visitors anywhere you want — you're not restricted to roads or major pathways. That means points of interest can be located anywhere — off the beaten path, alleyways, the woods, gardens, fields, bodies of water (kayaking tour, anyone?), parking lots, and on and on. The possibilities are endless. If you have an enterprise tour builder account , points of interest can even be shops, restaurants, and other local businesses. If you'd rather not have businesses be an actual part of your tour but still want to drive traffic into these areas, our flexible tour routes are the perfect solution by allowing you to guide visitors in the right direction.

Local Tours

Showcase your tours with our beautifully designed user interface. Your tours will automatically appear for visitors in the area.

Navigation & Guidance

Using your tour routes with our navigation and guidance technology, it will be simple for your visitors to get around without getting lost.

Tour Information

Provide rich content to engage visitors. Include click-to-call links. Visitors can comment on and even submit photos of points of interest.

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