Arches & Utah Parks Audio Tour User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience52.9% of reviews
Neutral17.6% of reviews
Negative experience29.4% of reviews

~ Based on 17 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Arches & Utah Parks Audio Tour Safe?

Arches & Utah Parks Audio Tour appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Arches & Utah Parks Audio Tour is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 191 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 191 App Store ratings for Arches & Utah Parks Audio Tour.

Is Arches & Utah Parks Audio Tour Legit?

Arches & Utah Parks Audio Tour appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Arches & Utah Parks Audio Tour is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great App

This App made our visit to four Utah national parks extremely enjoyable. Easy to use and so informative.

Response from developer

Hi Bilbo, thanks for the 5-star review! I’m glad to hear you had a great experience exploring Utah’s national parks with our self-guided audio tour. Hope you continue to enjoy more of our tours on your future adventures!

Worth it!

Definitely worth the money. Pretty easy to get used to once you get started, and there was an extra hike included that ended up being a really nice addition to the driving portion around the park!

Response from developer

We're thrilled to hear you found the app worth the money and easy to use once you got started! It's fantastic that you enjoyed the extra hike – we're always looking to add little surprises to make the experience even better. Thanks for the great feedback!

Worth It!

Really enjoyed the guided tour, works great!
Should add the ability to listen to the Native Indian music on the way out of the park.

Response from developer

Thank you! Excellent advice. Looking forward to your next adventure with us!

Arches Great - Canyonlands Not So Much

The Arches tour is great. Very informative, works well, gives plenty of time to listen and alerts with plenty of time before the next turn you should make.

I do not recommend the Canyonlands tour. All of the starting points are way off. You pass the road to turn and then it starts telling you to turn. Not helpful whatsoever.
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Response from developer

Yay — I'm thrilled to hear that you enjoyed your visit to Arches with my tour! We're glad you appreciated the timing of the alerts and the ample time provided to listen. We appreciate your support and hope you have more enjoyable experiences with our tours in the future! I’d love to make this a five-star experience!

Arches guide

Great way to tour the park!

Response from developer

Thank you for your positive feedback. We're thrilled to hear that you enjoyed your tour of the Arches with our app. Our goal is to create a seamless and engaging experience, so it's gratifying to know that we could enhance your exploration of the park.

Arches National Park

It was a pretty good tour. Worked great when we listened the night before. However in the park it worked for about four stops then mid sentence stopped and tried to download but never did. If it can’t work on site, it’s not worth much.

Response from developer

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. I'm sorry to hear about the troubles you encountered while using our tour app within the park. The app is indeed designed to function fully on site, so it's concerning to hear that it stopped mid-tour for you. Your experience helps us identify areas where we need to improve. To help us understand the issue more clearly and find a resolution, could you please provide some additional details? For instance, was there a particular error message that displayed when the app stopped? Or was this issue consistent across all the stops or specific to a particular one? Please feel free to reach out to us directly at support@actiontourguide.com with these details or any other concerns you might have. Your satisfaction is very important to us, and we're committed to improving your experience.

Wonderful but Disappointed

We loved the tour and used it throughout our drive at Arches. We are now back home and I am wanting to use it to organize my photos. Unfortunately, it doesn’t want to let me back in without purchasing is all over again. If there is a way around this I would love to know

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback! I’m glad you had a great time at Arches! You should be able to access the app regardless of when or where you open it (our tours are buy once, use forever!), so I’m not sure what went wrong in this case. Even if the tour was accidentally deleted, the passcode you received should still grant access. Failing that, were you able to reach out to our 24/7 support team? They are almost always able to help with issues such as this.

Fantastic app with a couple of glitches. Downgraded for problems

I used this app yesterday and although it had some problems, I loved the concept and it made my trip more fun. Today I’m downgrading a star because after buying and downloading a new tour, it stopped working after I got outside internet range. I actually drove back to my hotel to figure it out. Support told me I had to delete and reinstall app then download the tour again. This is going to take forever. This app is clearly not being properly supported on the tech side and needs a lot of work. These kinds of avoidable problems are deal killers.

Yesterday I did the Arches/Canyonlands tour with this app and really enjoyed it. It made the whole day a lot more interesting and fun. And it was a whole day of adventure. I spent almost 12 hours in the park and probably could have stayed longer if the sun and dinner didn’t interfere. There are a couple of issues, one major for me and the other just an annoyance. The annoying first. The app kept asking me to give feedback. I didn’t want to during my tour and clicked remind me later and that’s what it started doing every couple of minutes. Sometimes it would get stuck on the screen where I couldn’t even get back to the tour. I finally made a comment, which was via email, just to stop the reminder, but the reminders continued. There was a point where I thought my phone had frozen but after tapping dozens of times, the tour returned. This was infuriating in the moment, especially when you’re away from a signal and can’t do anything with a review even if you wanted. Allow user to turn off this prompt for the day at least and then forever. At this point in using the app I would have given it very few stars. But eventually it stopped and the rest of the tour was fine. The other problem is that the tour is apparently designed for a 25mph speed limit. This is not the case in the park, the limit constantly changes with long stretches at 45mph. What happens is that you might be in the middle of one description and suddenly it switches to another because the app detects the next site. Anything, like “pull over to finish narration” prompts to keep that from happening would be great. I wish there was a way for it to detect when you’re driving in opposite direction. Instead you get a prompt AFTER you’ve passed the site and of course left means right etc. I get it, that’s a lot more narration, but it could just be announcements of the site without the descriptions. Finally, I need to dig deeper but yesterday couldn’t find a way to bookmark sites. I would love such a feature so you can set a reminder to go to that place that’s great for sunrises etc. I know this is a long wishlist but I strongly recommend the app. I purchased another package for today.
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Response from developer

Thank you so much for such incredibly thorough and detailed feedback. It’s our mission to continuously improve the customer experience when using our app, so reviews like yours are extremely useful. I will make sure our team takes these comments seriously as we continue updating and streamlining our technology.

Rip Off Do Not Buy

I paid 5.99 downloaded it followed the link to register and the app came up asking me
To pay again and only offered a demo version for the tour - total scam -

Response from developer

The app offers a free demo and a paid purchase for the full tour (as outlined in the description). If you paid for the full tour but can’t see it, simply select “Restore” in the Menu. We’re also available nearly 24/7 over call, chat, and email to help with any questions. Please feel free to reach out.

Doesn’t work

New 12 Pro, download and installed. Opened and data download fails with “No Internet”. I restarted my phone and it still fails and the support link just takes me to registration.

Response from developer

The initial app download is free; it will only charge you if you choose to purchase the full tour. The app and tour download requires a good wifi/data connection, as mentioned in several places. We highly recommend doing this at home, in your hotel, or at the visitor center (signal inside the parks is notoriously poor).

Great Tour

Drove us right to all the key spots - and pointed them out with pictures! Never had to sit there and scratch our heads as we looked at all the rocks. Worth it for keeping the kids entertained alone.

Response from developer

We're so glad you enjoyed the tour! Thanks for the review!

Not worth it

Attempted to use this to tour Arches national park this last week. Downloaded the tour in advance. It worked at first but then froze multiple times. Had to restart phone to get it to work again. It worked again for a bit but then stopped again. While it works it is nice but it was a headache because it doesn’t function properly for the entire tour. Wish I would have not bought.
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Response from developer

I’m sorry to hear that! I believe this was posted before the tour was fully available offline but that issue has now been resolved. Sorry about the delayed reply. Please reach out to us and we’d be happy to issue a refund.

App won’t even download data after I purchase it

Spent $2.99 for absolutely nothing. App starts downloading the guide data then stops and gives an error message. Annoying. Waste of time and money

Response from developer

I’m terribly sorry about the technical issues you encountered here! Were you able to reach out to our 24/7 support team for assistance on the matter? If you can email us with details about the error message, we’d love to diagnose and resolve this problem.

It’s not really free

They make you think it is free, but if you want anything more than the demo tour you have to pay. I wish they disclosed that before I gave them my google info.

Response from developer

We would like to give our users the option to test out the tour and make sure they like it before they have to pay for it. As clearly stated in the summary, the app offers a free demo of the tour. If you like it, you have the option to buy the full tour.

Well done. Beautiful stories with animations

Loved the app. A lot of animation. A couple of movie clips and olympics torch story are great. GPS worked. All this for just a few dollars. Great buy.

Response from developer

We're so glad you enjoyed the tour! Thanks for the review!

Works so well!

We were worried that since this was a god App, it might not work so well in the National Park where signal is spotty but this app worked so well.
I am especially glad we used the App because it gave me so much more background information on the formation and the landscape.
Sure, it is fun and beautiful to just drive through the park but the App was a learning tool as well.
We connected the phone to the car audio and all of us were able to listen to the commentary
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Response from developer

We're so glad you enjoyed the tour! Thanks for the review!

Beautiful park

The landscape at Arches is incredible. BUT it is hard to know which “formation” the tour guide is talking about without pictures! That’s why I liked this one - extremely clear instructions on where to look, and helpful pictures and videos as accompaniment. I also really enjoyed the stories, especially about the Paiute and their mythology for the area. Wish there was more of that actually.
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Response from developer

We're so glad you enjoyed the tour! Thanks for the review!