PocketGuide Audio Travel Guide Ratings and Reviews

As others have noted the app provides the structure for individual guides to cities around the world. I tried Florence and was very impressed. I found it a comprehensive and entertaining guide to Florence. The commentary is casual and full of interesting and useful information--about the art and architecture and also about the street scene, places to eat or go for coffee or gelato. You can follow the suggested tour, or just let the app know where you are and let the commentary guide you. Since you can call up comments at will, you can use this guide to plan your trip in advance as well. All in all a very well designed app which I can see using for many cities as I travel. This Florence guide sets a high bar--it's remarkably good and I'll be checking to see if they have done as well with the other cities.

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I recently purchased this audio travel guide app while visiting London, and I was initially very excited to use it. Unfortunately, my experience with the app has been quite disappointing.

Upon using it, I encountered significant issues. The app consistently stops and freezes after just a minute or two into the tour. I attempted to restart it multiple times, but to no avail. I also tried the troubleshooting step of uninstalling and reinstalling the app, but this did not resolve the issue either.

Given the persistent problems I've encountered, I don’t recommend this app at all.

Just takes my money and constant crashes/hangs!!! This thing is a dumpster fire and should be removed from the store. You won’t be able to complete a single tour and will just ruin your trip by extremely aggravating you!

I can’t pay for a product if I’m worried the app will crash while I’m using it.

Was excited to use this but before I can even buy the $9.99 guide the app crashes

And it was. But it won’t work until I pay $9.99. Thank you. But no thank you.

I'm a roman tourguide and brought the rome in app, it was 7 tours for 5e, information is good, clean really from my experience it's what 80% of tourist taking large group headset tours want and is better then what they are getting without the large group and in my opinion this is superior. It's not better then a private guide. In the long run this will be doing private guides a favor though, by saving tourist huge amounts on overpriced mass group tours but allowing them a satisfying taste of all the city has to offer and they can then spend there money on a more in-depth tour of what interests them. Anyone flaming this app is more then likely a large group tour operator threatened by progression. Also if you want to see my own tour-guide work search 'romavita' in iTunes for a promo tour of the Sistine chapel.

I just used this app for Barcelona to navigate through Las Ramblas. This app took us step by step through the most important points of interest in the way from Plaza Cataluña to Paseo Colón and back to Plaza Cataluña. It identified when I reached the point of interest and started by itself to describe it indicating if this was at the right or left. It also showed a picture on the point if interest and indicated to turn either right or left as appropriate. I love it.

I purchased the Pocket Guide for Seoul and was using it today. It crashed a lot and could not react when I did not follow the route precisely (e.g., because of roadworks) and instead stuck on the next site in sequence, even though I could not there. I also found the tour of the palaces quite thin on information and would left me walking for 10-15 minutes with noting more than the occasional "continue to follow the your as show on the map". However more concerning was that I took a lot of photos inside the app, and even added captions to some, expecting they would be sitting in my iPhone photo folder when I finished but they are nowhere to be found. The concept is a good one but the execution is very poor.

I have loved this app for my travels! With many of my trips, I have less than a day to see a city. Pocket Guide's tours allow me to catch the highlights of a city in a short amount of time and without any transportation costs. Not to mention you can learn a lot about a city's history from Pocket Guide's short audio highlights. I am very glad I had this app for my day long stops in Zurich and Munich! This app is worth it!