# KrugerGuide — The all-in-one Guide to Kruger

> Offline guide for Kruger National Park with maps, wildlife info, and trip planning tools. (iPhone/iPad app by Kruger Guide (Pty) Ltd.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/krugerguide/id6446163645 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Kruger Guide (Pty) Ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/1676402060)
- Category: Travel, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 3.70/5 from 3 App Store ratings · 2 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 608 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2024-03-02
- Data updated: 2026-09-01
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/krugerguide/id6446163645/reviews.md

## What is KrugerGuide?

The only all-in-one Guide to Kruger National Park is packed with unique features and content to help you make the most of your time in the park.

Main features:
- High-resolution, searchable offline map with routing from your live location.
- Offline routing
- Road status reports
- Camp statusses
- Free Kruger travel guide section with all the need-to-know information.
- All roads are rated and enriched with recent sightings.
- Over 150 places marked and photographed.
- Background data backup.
- Over 400 species profiles that are searchable and filterable to help you identify each
- Low-data sightings board with 14-day history to help you find hotspots
- Over 2000 stunning images of species and places in the park
- Keep track of your trip and lifetime stats with ease


Convenient, easy to use, and always accessible:
- Download, install and explore. No additional downloads, add-ons, or connectivity is required for main functionality
- Our convenient countdown widget on the home screen 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.

A stunning Free travel guide that covers all you need to know:
- The Park: Park history, ecology, climate, conservation.
- Planning: When to visit, Where to stay, How to book, How to get to the park, and packing tips.
- Your trip: How to be your own guide, What to do, Visiting Kruger with Kids and food available in the park.
- Safety: Rules, Malaria, Safety Tips and what to do in emergencies.
- Phone numbers and connectivity.
- Gate times.

Maps so you always know where you are:
- No more worries about getting lost. Our park map works entirely offline and shows you where you are.
- The map is searchable and filterable, showing you where you are and what’s nearby.
- 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 ensure you can easily plan your routes.
- All the park roads have been linked to their points of interest so you can quickly get to know the area.
- Want 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 offline routes:
- To help you 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 display it on the main map.

Get to know the animals:
- Our lists are currently searchable in English, Afrikaans, Dutch, French, German and Spanish.
- Over 400 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 300 beginner and intermediate birds is filterable based on colours 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:
Do you like to track your stats? We’ve got you covered with info on your trips, sightings, check-ins, camps visited, roads driven, and more. 
- The app tracks these per trip and over your lifetime of visits to the park.
- We backup your data in the cloud so you never have to worry about losing your sightings or other stats.
- You can now mark species, places or roads as your favourites

Sightings board:
- If you have some coverage, check out the community sightings board.
- This feature will also enrich the routes in your area with sightings of the day.
- Sightings from the last 14 days enrich all roads and places.

## Key features

- Offline searchable map with routing
- Road and camp status reports
- Over 400 searchable species profiles
- Low-data sightings board
- Trip and lifetime stats tracking
- Click-to-call park services
- Offline turn-by-turn routes

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Annual full access | $14.99 | per year |
| Annual full access | $14.99 | per year |
| Annual full access | $9.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro Access - Single Payment | $29.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (2 of 2)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/krugerguide/id6446163645/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Poor App

*2025-06-11*

Poor navigation, sightings are 24 hours, so useless.

**Developer response:** Hi Chops, we are sorry you struggled to use these features and you are welcome to email us at hello@kruger.guide to provide any useful feedback you have. Please keep in mind that a single developer is maintaining all of this as a passion project, so your input may take a while to make it into a new version.
To help other users understand these features better: Community sightings cannot be viewed without a working internet connection, which makes the feature most useful in the South of the park where there is better cell service. With a working internet connection, sightings are delayed by at most 15 minutes and are real-time for big five species. Rhino sightings are never shared with the community. If you are travelling through the central or Northern regions of the park, please note that it is unlikely that you will receive sighting updates when you leave camp, and some camps may not have any cell service. There is unfortunately nothing we can do about this.
Navigation: The app does not utilise Google or Apple maps for navigation. The road network in the park causes these platforms to use roads that are not accessible to the public. To ensure the safety of users, we manually mapped over 1,300 routes to follow between camps, gates and picnic sites. These are clearly indicated on the map, have travel time estimates and are easy to follow. Your last route-lookup will be immediately visible when you access this feature again. In addition to the 1,300 point-to-point routes, we created 70+ pre-mapped self-drive routes that have turn-by-turn instructions.

### 1/5 — Deceptive

*2024-09-08*

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.

**Developer response:** This review is no longer valid as the as the app includes a free tier for everyone from 11 March 2025.

## Frequently asked questions about KrugerGuide

### Does KrugerGuide have ads?

Yes, KrugerGuide contains advertisements. This is typical for free travel guide applications that offer extensive offline features.

### What is the price of KrugerGuide?

KrugerGuide is free to download and use. There are optional subscription plans for full access, with annual options available for $9.99 or $14.99, the latter including a 3-day free trial.

### What devices does KrugerGuide support?

KrugerGuide is available on iPhone and iPod devices. It is designed for mobile use within the park.

### How often is KrugerGuide updated?

The latest version of KrugerGuide is 3.0.0, last updated on April 23, 2026. Users can expect regular updates to ensure information remains current.

### What is the age rating for KrugerGuide?

KrugerGuide has an age rating of 9+. This indicates it is suitable for users aged 9 and older, offering content appropriate for this demographic.

### Can I use KrugerGuide offline?

Yes, KrugerGuide is designed for offline use. The main functionality, including maps, routing, and park information, does not require an internet connection.

### What kind of information does KrugerGuide provide about animals?

KrugerGuide features over 400 species profiles that are searchable and filterable, with photos and descriptions. It also includes a low-data sightings board with a 14-day history to help find animal hotspots.

### How does KrugerGuide help with navigation in the park?

KrugerGuide offers a high-resolution, searchable offline map with live location routing. It also provides over 70 turn-by-turn, reversible offline routes with interactive maps to guide you between points of interest.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.0.0 — 2026-04-23

You asked and we answered with Version 3: 
- Create and save custom multi-stop routes, all offline
- Add photos to your sightings
- Share your own and like community sightings
- Species sighting heatmaps added to main map
- Best roads, most likely time of day and recent activity stats added to species
- Most logged species, species diversity and ranking added to roads
- Stats tracking redesigned to seamlessly switch between lifetime and trip stats
- Photo gallery added to trips
- Community photos added to species and roads
- Full app UI redesign
- Blog post integration added to give you weekly Kruger content
- Trip countdown added to the home screen
- Community poll feature added - first poll already live

### 2.2.1 — 2025-12-18

Your most requested Pro feature is here!
Offline routing with alternative routes:
- from your live location in the park to any marked location on the park map
- provides alternative routes that are mostly tar, mostly dirt or balanced
- routes enriched with photos, roads used, points of interest on route and recent sightings
- progress indicator with remaining distance, estimated arrival time, off-route and speed waring 
Fixes and enhancements include:
- trip deletion fix
- combined sighting board and park map
- map search enhancement
- fixes issue where adding sighting from map does not show up until app restart

### 2.2.0 — 2025-12-16

Your most requested Pro feature is here!
Offline routing with alternative routes:
- from your live location in the park to any marked location on the park map
- provides alternative routes that are mostly tar, mostly dirt or balanced
- routes enriched with photos, raods used, points of interest on route and recent sightings
- progress indicator with remaining distance, estimated arrival time, off-route and speed waring 
Fixes and enhancements include:
- trip deletion fix
- combined sighting board and park map
- map search enhancement

### 2.1.0 — 2025-07-07

This release contains several key enhancements and bug fixes. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit high-quality feedback that we could use to improve this version!

Features:
1) Secret Seven badge added for those users who have excellent luck :)
2) Your trips and user profile centralized into the new "Your Kruger" section
3) Customer center added in Your Kruger section so you can view and manage your plan from within the app
4) Profiles added for Striped Pipit and Temminck's Courser
5) We've integrated access to our upcoming blog into the app. We will email users to let them know when the feature becomes accessible.
6) Tapping the main menu icons will navigate directly to the 2nd tab of tabbed pages. This is very useful for getting directly to birds, places, and trips.

Bug fixes:
1) Issue where the live location marker would not update to your current location
2) Issue where deleted sightings would still be displayed on community sightings board
3) Connection time-outs now clearly indicated for web-based content
4) Issue where places filtered on Favourites would not unfilter correctly

### 2.0.0 — 2025-03-11

Thank you to everyone for submitting feedback! Version 2 is here and we hope you can see we are listening and improving each version:
- We've wanted to share the magic of Kruger with more people from the start and to accomplish this, we've added a Free tier to the app that everyone can access.
- Added a detailed Kruger travel guide based on our years of experience exploring the park. We put tons of effort into this and hope it shows!
- The high zoom level of the map extended to cover the entire park from being available only around camps
- Updated the sightings board to include all species(except Rhinos) and made it as beautiful as possible! 
- We've added over 50 species to take the total to over 400.
- Recent sightings of species are now shown on the detail pages of all roads and places.
- Historic sightings added to all species to help guide you in your search.
- Added picnic sites to distance lookups and offline routes.
- Ability to log sightings of all species directly on the sightings board page.
- Added restaurant menus.
- The sightings board now includes 14 days of sightings for you to find hotspots and plan routes around.
- You can now mark roads, places, species and routes as favourites and filter based on this status.
- Lifetime stats expanded to track the percentage of each animal and bird family sighted and roads driven.
- Small Five badge added. We'll done to those who earned all the other badges, we are working on adding more!
- View your Subscription plan details directly in your profile.
- Road list now has beautiful preview and includes key information.
- The FAQ section was added to the "Send Feedback" page to address your most common questions upfront.
- Family filter added to Animal species.
- Roads and Routes can now be filtered by length and ratings.
- Distance and offline route lookups now integrated into main Park map.
- The last route and distance looked up now saved for easy access.
- You can now opt-out of community sighting contribution on your Profile page.
- Routes relating to a camp or gate can now be accessed directly from that road or camp detail page.
- We've also fixed a few minor bugs from the previous version.

Thanks again for all the support! We appreciate it and will be hard at work on the next version.

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