Revealed Travel Guides User Reviews

Revealed Travel Guides
Revealed Travel Guides
Wizard Publications, Inc.

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Guaranteed to enhance your vacation

Purchased the Revealed upon moving to Big Island two years ago. I’ve had the time to take it all in and found this to be a useful and fun companion. The GPS driving tour is great to help orient to the island and learn pronunciation of place names. My visitors really enjoy it.

BI is a home to spicy and spooky tales, scary roads and ever changing rules, you need a good guide!
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Response from developer

Aloha, Mahalo for being a loyal fan and your warm 5 star review! We are so glad you find the app useful in your new home on the Big Island. Big Island is indeed a treasure of a place... we are so glad our app was part of your journey to your new home. Never stop exploring. Mahalo

User Interface Design is poor

Want to find beaches on a map that you can snorkel in by your area? Look at the book. I tried multiple times to find this info and to ask how to do this and never could get to an email. Travel to Hawaii yearly and this actively detracts from the experience. And now with monthly charges instead of annual? Not good.
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Response from developer

Aloha and mahalo for reaching out! We are sorry! We did not receive any email with this type of question and I looked back through our app feedback and did not see anything there, either. What email addy did you use? Please email us at app@hawaiirevealed.com. For finding beaches, a couple of ways - you can go to the Beaches section of app and use Filters to find beaches by location first and "good snorkeling" is also a filter - along with many other filters like lifeguards, facilities, etc. On the map you can check what beaches are around you and see the reviews from the map. You may select an annual subscription option within the app instead of monthly. Please reach out to us with any comments and other feedback at the email above. Mahalo for being a fan of our books.

worth every penny and then some!

This app is amazing. The driving tour feature makes this a must, allowing for any visitor to have the insider knowledge of a local. You can easily find the most secret of gems the islands have to offer thanks to the step by step directions offered along the way. And the history lessons are fun and interesting too. The restaurant reviews are spot on. The guide is intelligent, honest and humorous. I'd spend many times over the cost charged and still be of the opinion that it's worth it. Thank you, Andrew; and, please keep up the awesome work!
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Doesn’t work without WiFi

App is not working on cellular data—even checked that it didn’t somehow come packaged with cellular toggled off (if doesn’t). I’ve tried multiple locations, all with excellent 5G cell service, and every other app works but not this one. Especially disappointing considering it’s already expensive (and wasn’t included with the book purchase), and now there’s zero incentive to buy a subscription or take a chance on a driving tour app. Deleted.
Update: Developer responded but instead of asking why the latest version of the app doesn’t work with 5G / sans WiFi (not in a remote spot so it ought to, like every other app out there), they advised unnecessarily downloading a lot of content and filling up my phone to access the whole package of information offline. Please just fix the app so it works with 5G instead of disagreeing with reported user experience. It appears to be a bug with this latest version.
Less than one star and still deleted.
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Response from developer

Aloha and mahalo, our app does work without both WIFI and cellular without a purchase. We checked new devices with a new accounts and are unable replicate your issue. We did this before download of the map or any in-app purchase. We are happy to look into this issue directly with more details via email at app@hawaiirevealed.com we are here to help. With specifics we can look into this further. The drive tour app works similarly - the map is downloaded after purchase, that is automatic so no need for either cellular or wireless to use the drive tour.

Informative and Fabulous

I love the Revealed books, so I purchased the driving Apps for the Big Island last year and Kauai this year. Such fun, informative as well as accurate guides! Get it! You won’t be disappointed!

Response from developer

Aloha and mahalo for your super kind 5 star review! We are so happy to read that you are also a loyal fan. Look for more from Andrew coming this year - the locations start popping up in your app in 2024. We do hope you will return to Hawaii again soon. Aloha and a hui hou

Great travel info

As we drove around the Big Island with this GPS guided commentary we were informed about many interesting stories, places and adventures that we might otherwise have missed. We found it quite effortless. Well worth the price. I highly recommend it.

Must have!

If traveling g to the islands you will miss so much of you don’t have this app!! And the books! 5 stars all the way!

Response from developer

Aloha and mahalo for your 5 star review! We appreciate you being a loyal fan and your support of our products. We hope you return soon to the islands.

This app is essential!

Well worth $ The app guides you through your drive, noting history, stops along the way, and humor. So happy we purchased for our drives through Kauai

Response from developer

Aloha and mahalo for your kind 5 star review. We are so happy you enjoyed the driving tour portion of our travel app. We hope you will return soon. A Hui Hou

I’m confused, (but feeling better)

I just paid $29 for a year subscription Hawaii Revealed. When I opened it up it asked if I wanted to use the new app. So I downloaded it , signed in and I was asked to pay another $30 to to access the the important stuff?!

The Developer contacted me and gave me full access to their new app. I’m still a little confused as to why both apps are there.

We are heading to Oahu next week, so I’ll have a better idea of the new app.
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Response from developer

Aloha Dan, please reach out to us at app@hawaiirevealed.com. Glad we got you got you set up. We have to support both apps for now as we have people using one or the other. We are moving folks like you over so you can enjoy the new app. Hope you had fun on O‘ahu. Aloha

Great books, poor app

I’ve loved the Revealed books for 20 years, but I have to admit that the app loaded with similar information is a poor replacement.

Maps would be a useful feature, but only a very small number of reviewed locations are clickable. Even for those, they don’t show on the map until you zoom way in. The app clearly uses Apple/google maps, so why are only reviewed locations clickable? And why can’t I choose to view both beaches and sights?

I feel swindled out of $12. Thankfully, I remembered to cancel the subscription before it auto-renewed.
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Response from developer

Aloha and mahalo for your feedback. That is a great suggestion on being able to choose more than one activity on the map! We are adding that to our updates list. The maps are sourced, our old maps (done by us) didn't show every street for example or sight or business - only what we talked about in our app, so it's just like the older app in that way. We are continuing to make improvements in our app based on suggestions from users like you. If you want to be a part of our focus groups (which is how we came up with this app), please reach out to app@hawaiirevealed.com. We would love to have you.

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