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A Remarkable Tour of Skye

This app is an indispensable audio guide to Skye packed with information that only local knowledge provides. It leads you through the culture, heritage and legends of Skye in a truly accessible form. Tips on how to prepare for your trip prior to travel are pertinent and most welcome. The description of Skye’s formation by volcanic activity 60 million years ago to form the Cuillin - the most dramatic mountain range in the U.K. - is beautifully and clearly explained.

Visitors are guided step by step through some of the most spectacular areas on the island such as the Old Man of Storr, the Quirang and the Faerie Pools with delightful anecdotes and sensible advice to accompany the trip. There is plentiful information to help you to see many of the impressive sights and landmarks on Skye.

No trip would be complete without a trip to one or more of Skye’s distilleries and the app furnishes detailed information that only very experienced whisky connoisseurs could convey.
History, heritage, music and legend are present in abundance and this app is a treasure trove of information on dinosaurs, Bonny Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances and tracing family roots.
The app will enrich your experience of this mystical and remarkable island.
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Complete Skye Guide in your pocket

Really made our trip!
We love listening and reading about the history of places we visit. Skye is such a magical island. This was such a great way to learn about Skye as we discovered the island by car and by foot. Can’t wait to come back again, the locals are lovely too!

Beautiful Design and Helpful Features

I went on my honeymoon to Skye and used this app to explore the island. It was an amazing experience for me and my wife! The audio guides were super informative and very interesting. We honestly had no idea how much history existed on the island and learned so much! In all our traveling we have never come across an app like this. It’s very unique! I wish more places had a virtual guide like this one. 100% recommend!!
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Enhanced travel in a beautiful island.

Content that is shared with obvious passion for the place, the people and the language. This app will whet your appetite to learn more. All the info is download to you phone in less than a minute when you sign up so it’s available even when you are somewhere remote with no signal.

Useful links to other resources are included and the guides come with relevant maps to help you navigate special places.
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Fantastic App - You can immerse yourself in the real Skye!

I have had great pleasure introducing the App to our guests. The introduction and description of the island and its extraordinary history is wonderful! So too and in particular the Gaelic spoken in the introduction to welcome guests. Inspired!

So important that Skye is seen as so much more than just spectacular scenery and David and Robin do just that as they tell the story of Skye and guide visitors to places that are off the beaten track and away from the more well-known places, improving the visitor’s enjoyment of and engagement with the island and its people

I am really looking forward to introducing the App to more of our guests and playing the introduction that sets the scene for amazing adventures in Eilean a’ Cheo.

Well done!
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Download This ASAP if you’re visiting Skye!

This app was incredibly helpful during our stay in Skye. The maps and landmarks were useful in planning our itinerary and my family also enjoyed listening to the audio guides that added so much to our experience.

I can’t recommend this app more if you are visiting the Isle of Skye. Now I wish that everywhere I went had a similar app!!
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Excellent tool for planning my Skye trip

Was told about this app from a neighbour who’d used it recently, as I’m planning a trip to Skye next month. I found it extremely useful, easy to navigate and very thorough.

What a nice experience

We loved listening to these stories and history on Skye. We also received a lovely welcome pack with local music and recommendations on places to eat which we found very useful.

Avoid!!

Consists of a huge download. And what seems to be free actually needs an almost £12 unlocking fee. Most misleading!!!

Response from developer

Thanks Pete, we’re sorry you gave us a 1 star review. You make some really important points. 1. Our app takes about 1 minute to download on its first setup and once complete nothing needs to download again. Everything is accessible offline wherever you are exploring on Skye. Interestingly our app is much smaller than most! But ours downloads all at once to make sure visitors can enjoy Skye uninterupted 2. We’re a remote area with many international visitors, meaning we wanted to make sure our visitors can enjoy Skye's culture and history without needing reliable phone reception. It’s a shame you missed out on the stories and history that we've spent such a long time curating! Skye is an incredible place with a depth of culture and uniqueness we wish we could have shared with you. Our app provides everyone access to Skye's history at around 10% the cost of a traditional tour, but with the benefit of following your own interest at your own pace. We’ve put a lot of passion and love into our Skye app, and countless hours. We know those who give our app a try will love it. Our app is like having a local person in your pocket full of detailed information to make your trip memorable and exciting. We’re sorry you missed out. All the best Pete, David and Robin Experience Skye Founders

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