VoiceMap: Audio Tours & Guides
August 27, 2024
More About VoiceMap: Audio Tours & Guides
Features:
• Explore at your own pace. Start and stop tours whenever you like, then use the resume option to pick up exactly where you left off.
• With GPS autoplay, you can focus on your surroundings, not the screen. Tap on Start, and let VoiceMap guide you.
• VoiceMap works offline. After you download a tour, the audio will be available offline along with an offline map.
• If you do go off in the wrong direction, VoiceMap plays an audio alert, and you can follow the map on your screen to the next location.
• Listen to tours as many times as you like both in the destination and in virtual tour mode at home.
• With over 1,300 free and paid tours, VoiceMap offers huge variety
VoiceMap works indoors too, and Version 12 of the app combines insightful content that extends your attention span with an interface that helps you make informed choices about how you spend your time at a growing range of museums and art galleries around the world.
You can also listen with your feet up whenever you like with Virtual Playback. This turns every tour into something you can take in like a podcast or audio book.
Press:
“High-quality self-guided walking tours...Narrated by local experts, they provide insight into corners of the city sometimes overlooked by regular guided tours.”
Lonely Planet
“We may be biased, but could there be anything more helpful than having a journalist in your pocket when touring a new city? How about a historian, a novelist or just a really passionate local? VoiceMap culls city-specific stories from them all and fits them neatly into walking tours.”
New York Times
Latest Version
12.6.8
August 27, 2024
AudioGuide
Travel & Local
Android
191,675
Free
me.voicemap.android
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User Reviews
Sarah McGurk
2 years ago
The tour itself was wonderful! I saw so many beautiful, iconic places that are unique to the Hudson Valley and that I would not have discovered otherwise. As a longtime resident of Nyack New York, I felt like a tourist here. The stories are enthralling and masterfully told by Jonathan. His voice and cadence will bring you back through history to live in the sometimes haunted, sometimes fanciful, and always grand moments in the characters lives. I did find the directions sometimes frustrating.
Alan Jabin
1 year ago
It's a relatively short 30 min narrated walking tour of Portland. It's one of the best values available. In this short walk he covers some of my personal favorite things to see in Portland Oregon. I've been an Oregonian for over 50 years and have lived, and/ or worked in or near downtown for most of that time. I would recommend this tour to tourists and locals alike - he points out things you might have missed
Martina Cucchiara
3 years ago
Great idea, terrible app with lots of bugs. I purchased two tours for Paris. When I tried to download them, the app froze multiple times. After uninstalling and restarting, I was able to download one. But when I previewed the tour and paused it, it would not let me resume the tour later. I had to delete and download it again, so that I could resume it. Frustrating experience. I will not be using this app in Paris. Very disappointed.
Jennifer Tjersland
4 years ago
Amazing for exploring! We have been to New Orleans numerous times and wanted to do something inexpensive and away from the typical expensive tours in the French Quarter. After a little bit of research, I downloaded this app. The tours available took us to areas we'd never explored before and the UI was flawless. The guide always began speaking at the correct point and I barely ever had to touch my phone. I can't wait to use this app to explore other cities!
Aaron Berger
1 year ago
Had to restart app multiple times during Reno tour. Kept telling me I was lost even when I was on track. Audio did not auto play most of the time. Sad because I really liked the content and format, it just needs to actually work. Also Reno needs an update due to new construction. It was like "look across this open field at the stadium in the distance" and what I was standing in front of was a brand new 3 story apt. - yes I was walking, tried not to throw any curve balls at the app experience.
Steve Erwin
2 years ago
Pretty good idea that needs a little more work. The problem is how construction sites are handled when the tour runs right through them - currently they aren't. I took a detour that seemed reasonable but then couldn't find my way back to the tour route. A friendly baritone voice broke in to suggest I might be lost, which I was, but didn't offer any further guidance except to "look at the map on the screen." How about guiding me back to the tour?
Charles Kinney
1 year ago
Wow... What a nightmare. The app will not start until you are at the exact place... For Augsburg it was a central station with trams going everywhere .. we had to cross tram lines three times in minutes. It then tells you the next stop without any clue how to get there. This is a terrible app - great idea but it sucks the life out of your device and is confusing to use (A back button? Forget it!). I want the 4.99 I spent on it back and more importantly, the few hours trying to get it to work:(.
Greg Lockwood
2 years ago
I love the offline access, the great uses of the technology and the feeling of recreating an in-person walking tour. The only downside is that the clarity of each tour's narrator greatly affects the enjoyment of the experience, so be sure to preview each tour before buying it. You can also share one tour between multiple people if your device supports multiple audio output. (On Samsung, swipe down and tap "Media Output" and enable the checkbox for all connected Bluetooth headphones)
Sarah Jones
2 years ago
Love this app! I travel frequently, both with family and alone for work. Have been a fan of walking tours for years, but just found Voice Map on a trip to Vienna. Love walking around the crowds while a narrator whispers stories and interesting facts from history. Several times I've seen people walking past significant historical markers, seemingly having no idea of the fascinating stories behind them. Get in on the secret and listen to one of these tours on your next trip!
Adam Porter
2 years ago
Great idea, poor execution. I bought the tour for Zagreb, Croatia. I gave the app location access all the time (as requested) but it wasn't able to locate me closely enough to auto play the tour. I tried to go to the locations and manually play the tour but the play button didn't work. I tried to read the script but it wouldn't advance pay the third location and told me that a tour preview only showed the first three stops. When/if the bugs get fixed, this could be a great app.
Jared Grotz
2 years ago
I rarely to review apps, but I think this app is absolutely phenomenal, especially for travelers. Instead of paying for expensive tours with a live guide and being herded around through a city with 20 other people, you can do it in your own for only $6 or so and pause for breaks whenever you like. I did 3 tours on a recent trip to Berlin and each was awesome. Can't wait to use it in my future travels and will even probably try at least one of the tours in my home city (Los Angeles).
A Google user
6 years ago
I've had a great experience with VoiceMap when I travel to new cities. It's an easy, quick way to find the interesting places around you and learn a little bit more about why they're great. Whether you're looking for history, culture, or great places to eat, there's a variety of tours in each city to match your style. I even tried my hand at designing a walking tour of my own city, Hong Kong. It's just as much fun for sharing your interests as discovering them from others.
A Google user
6 years ago
Good on theory but losses connection with GPS in narrow alleyways, making the app malfunction. Tried another tour in open spaces and worked fine. Devs responsive to the error I encountered which is great. Overall good experience but beware tours in old parts of cities with narrow alleys and relatively tall buildings where GPS won't work well.
Linda Carmy
1 year ago
We could not keep the app working for more than two minutes. It froze, it wouldn't let me pause, then it wouldn't start again. It said I was at the start then said I wasn't. I tried resetting the phone, changing permissions for the app and changing settings in the app itself. In the end, we gave up and read from a pamphlet we picked up at the visitor's center.
Royce Johnson
1 year ago
Really slick way to do tours. Narration was clear and interesting, maps were timely and accurate, tech worked right on the first pass. Had a glitch when we paused it overnight and the downloaded tour wouldn't restart next day. I sent in a help request and had an answer (try restarting the app) within minutes that worked. We used wireless earbuds with one bud per person so we could each listen in while keeping an ear open for traffic and chat. Highly recommend, I'm looking for more tours on it.
Peggy Meier
1 year ago
The "In the footsteps of Van Gogh" tour was excellent. It was enjoyable and informative. We like that we could pause the tour and take time to visit the sites, something we can't usually do with a group walking tour. The app does sometimes jump to a different place after we pause it though. Overall, we highly recommend this tour.
Yuri M
1 year ago
Since I purchased only one audio tour (San Juan), I do not know if it's the tour specific or general app issue, but I had technical issue with the audio entire tour long: more often than not, audio did not play for new building, neither automatically, nor manually. I had to exit the tour and get back on in order for sound to get played. Was very annoying.
Marc S
1 year ago
The tour was awesome, and how it tracked our walking speed with the narration was flawless. The directions were perfect. My only suggestion would be for you to add the exact starting and ending location of the tour so people who are driving will know where to park. The tour started and finished near our hotel, so we didn’t really need the beginning and ending locations, but that information would likely be helpful for most people. I'm excited to try more of your tours.
Liz Coronel
1 year ago
Really enjoyed this tour as well as getting lost in Charleston (literally). Had to drive most of the tour because I can't walk long distances. Even so, I was still able to navigate the tour with minimal course corrections... beware of those one way streets. Definitely recommend to anyone looking to learn a little history while getting their steps in. Will be doing more in the future.
Marissa Yurko
1 year ago
I was frustrated that the price went up significantly when I got to the check out page. And I had to download 2 different apps (VoiceMap & Get Your Guide) AND create accounts with both and check my email for a code in order to access the audio tour. For Cork Highlights, the narrator was easy to understand and the navigation was pretty clear. I liked the automatic stop and start based on location. I would've enjoyed more variety, like sound effects or quotes read by different voice actors.
