Our all-in-one companion app for Kruger National Park has one of a kind features and content to help you make the most of your time in the park.
Convenient, easy to use, and always accessible:
- Download, install and explore. No additional downloads, add-ons, or data required.
- Our convenient countdown widget right on the homescreen means you always know when the gates are opening or closing.
- Phone numbers for camps, gates and other park services are all click-to-call.
- Mapped routes and distances between gates and camps.
- Personalise your trip and profile with an image of your choice.
Over 2000 photos included so that you can explore the park from anywhere.
Maps so you always know where you are:
- No more worries about getting lost. Our park map works fully offline, and shows you where you are.
- The map is searchable, filterable, and shows you where you are and what’s close by.
- Filter our best in class park map based on the types of points of interest or their amenities
- Over 300 places mapped and described.
- Get to know more about your next destination by tapping the place.
All park roads rated:
- We’ve described and rated all roads to make sure you can plan your own routes with ease.
- All the park roads have been linked to their points of interest so that you can explore with ease.
- Want to see a taster of what you could see on the roads? We’ve driven them all and added photos from our adventures to each road.
Easy to follow routes:
- To make it simple to decide where to drive next we’ve included 70+ turn by turn, reversible routes with interactive maps.
- Reverse any route, its map and its step with the press of a button.
- Easily bookmark your current route to make sure you stay on track.
Get to know the animals:
- Our lists are currently searchable in English, Afrikaans, Dutch, French, German and Spanish.
- Over 340 species with photos, descriptions, and more.
- Check off animals you’ve spotted using a quick add option, or leave yourself a note about the sighting.
Birding for everyone:
- Our tailored list of 260 beginner and intermediate birds is filterable based on colors and key features to make it fun and easy.
- Need more help identifying a tricky bird? Use the sighting heatmap to check if you’re in an area where the bird is likely to be.
Track your stats:
- Like to track your stats? We’ve got you covered with info on your trips, sightings, check-ins, camps visited, and more. You can log these per trip and over your lifetime of visits to the park.
- We backup your sightings for you in the cloud so you never have to worry about losing them.
Sightings board:
- If you do have some coverage, you can check out the community sightings board.
- This feature will also enrich the routes in your area with sightings of the day.
As you can tell, whether it’s your first Kruger trip or you’re a regular park visitor, KrugerGuide will enhance your visit from start to finish.
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What's New in KrugerGuide
1.0.9
September 14, 2024
Features added:
- Distance lookup feature completely rebuilt to add a mapped route to make navigation a breeze.
- Trip summaries enhanced with a sightings map for you to explore your trips' sightings. To try out, go to Your Trips > Pick a trip > Navigate to Map tab.
- Amenity filtering added to the Park Map. Now you can easily find the closest restroom or any other amenity you are looking for.
- Each species profile now has a map of your previous sightings recorded in the park.
- Bring up any road's information panel by simply tapping the road line.
- Route maps rebuilt to show not only the current route but also surrounding roads to make taking detours easier.
Content added:
- 46 new species added for you to learn about and log as sightings.
- 16 sounds added to species as a start for you to test and give us feedback on.
- Breeding information added for animal species.
- 370+ point-to-point mapped routes added to the distance lookup feature.
Fixes:
- Intermittent issue with the live location marker on the park map resolved.
- Gate countdown timer that got stuck now fixed.
- Improved sightings board back-end to prepare for the new features coming in the next release.
A big thank you to our amazing users who have kindly reached out to ask for features and enhancements. This release incorporates most of these requests received. We've also added all species users have requested by name. Please continue submitting your feedback, we are listening and we'll incorporate as much as we can in the next release.
The app does not show a cost, implying it is free or there is a free version.. nope as soon as you download it, it wants to charge $9.99 so in my opinion no matter how good the app is, it gets an F from me.
Response from developer
Hi Norm, as noted in our email correspondence the app store listing clearly indicates that it offers in-app purchases and that we offer a free trial for new users to test the full features. There is no charge before the free trial ends. We understand your concern about pricing clarity and will consider how to make this information more prominent. We encourage you to try the free trial to evaluate the app's actual value.
