
VoiceMap: Audio Tours & Guides 4+
500 cities: London, NYC, Paris
Audio Guide
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Experience the magic of GPS audio walks, cycles, drives and even boat rides with VoiceMap's self-guided tours in almost 500 destinations worldwide.
VoiceMap tours are like podcasts that move with you, to tell stories about what you’re seeing right now. They're produced by insightful local storytellers, including journalists, filmmakers, novelists, podcasters, and tour guides. Sir Ian McKellen has even created a tour.
Why use VoiceMap?
• Explore at your own pace instead of being herded along in a group. Start and stop tours whenever you like, to grab a drink or take in the view, then tap Resume to pick up exactly where you left off.
• Focus on your surroundings, not the screen. With automatic GPS playback, you can just tap on Start and let VoiceMap guide you.
• Avoid expensive roaming fees or fiddly connection issues. After you download a tour, VoiceMap works offline and includes an offline map.
• Enjoy tours as many times as you like, both in your destination and with your feet up, at home. Virtual Playback turns every tour into a podcast or audio book.
• Extend your attention span with indoor tours that help you make the most of your time at a growing range of museums and art galleries around the world.
• With over 1,500 free and paid tours in 70 plus countries, VoiceMap offers huge variety. There are over 100 tours in London alone!
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
User Testimonials:
"Perfect for solo travelling on your own schedule! Downloaded for a trip to Europe and will be continuing to use it on my next travels."
App Store review, Vialetter
“My wife and I really enjoyed exploring Bruges at our own pace with this audio tour, and there were some memorable stories that the narrator shared. Also, the app worked great in relation to the location-based services. We easily followed the map and the audio was triggered in the appropriate spots. In comparison to the packs of people wandering the city with tour guides, this was a much better fit for us.”
Viator review, Rick A
“Great quality information - interesting and entertaining. The time flew by. And no waffle! This is far better than any other guided tour we found - they are much more expensive and far less informative. And you can do this tour any time, any day, at your own pace, and even do it twice!”
Tripadvisor review, Carcassonne 's Medieval Walls: A Self-Guided Tour
"Thoroughly recommend. Really enjoyed the tour. Very well done. Packed with information and took me round streets I’d never have thought to walk round. An audio and visual treat. Thank you."
Janet, NYC
“It was enjoyable to be under no time pressure to freely roam the city of Pisa as we so pleased. Wandering from attraction to attraction. The app is clever, concise and easy to use! Would do again - especially with another person or solo traveler.”
GetYourGuide review, Grace L
“Great value for money, interesting and very clear and easy to follow! I learnt lots about London I didn't already know and I have lived here over 30 years.”
London’s Alternative History Tour, Carmella V.
** Just so you know, GPS runs in the background while you're on a tour. This decreases battery life and it's best to start a tour with your device fully charged.
What’s New
Version 14.0.0
What comes to mind when you hear the term “audio tour”? Years ago, when we asked this question in a survey, the answer wasn’t a surprise. Audio tours make people think of dusty museums, where grubby devices play dry facts when you push a button.
This misperception might be VoiceMap’s biggest challenge. The fastest way to change it is by getting somebody to listen to the audio from one of our tours. When they hear a voice talking to them – instead of at them – telling a story at ground level instead of 10,000 feet, their eyes light up. I’ve seen it over and over again. Music and sound effects help bring this type of personal storytelling to life, but it’s icing on the cake.
In Version 14 of the app, codenamed Valencia, we’ve added inline audio previews that get you to that moment faster, if you’re new to VoiceMap. If you’re a loyal user who stopped thinking about dusty museums long ago, then Version 14’s inline previews will make choosing your next tour easier. It’ll guide you to the best choice in other ways too, including:
• Granular reviews, with feedback on whether a tour has a strong sense of place, straightforward navigation, clear production quality, enough information, and an interesting route. These are based on the recipe for a perfect tour we share with all our publishers.
• Redesigned tour cards that display the publisher’s name clearly and give you access to our new inline previews with a single tap.
• Better destination maps displaying where tours start and end, plus the full route of the tour you have in focus. You can swipe through tours to find an option that perfectly matches your plans for the day, or work out how to string tours together – like Jo Eckhardt’s tours of Berlin, which connect in a single, ten-kilometre loop.
• A new Reviews tab, replacing the Comments tab. It matches ratings with comments and lets you sort by date or relevance.
VoiceMap’s tours have well over 50,000 ratings, with an overall average of 4.6 out of 5. We’re nearly eleven years old now – Version 1 of the app was released in June 2014 – but 20,000 of those ratings were left in the last 12 months, and they averaged 4.7 overall. I think it’s safe to say we aren’t gathering dust.
Ratings and Reviews
Best audioguide app!
I did two audio guides using this app in Paris, France and I loved it.
Great riverside ride adventure to Belem by bike
What a great way to experience the Lisbon waterfront and learn about the city! We loved the history, different sound effects and music and all the different voices. Highly recommended this riverside ride Lisbon to Belem experience on VoiceMap!
Another excellent tour!
Another excellent tour with Annie! We stopped halfway through to go through the Cluny museum and really enjoyed ending the tour at the arenes de Luteces and watching people play pétanque.
App Privacy
The developer, Audio Guide, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- User Content
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Audio Guide Pte. Ltd.
- Size
- 220.6 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, Xhosa
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2025 VoiceMap Pte. Ltd.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- VoiceMap audio tour | P7 $9.99
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- VoiceMap audio tour | P20 $24.99
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- VoiceMap audio tour | P15 $19.99