Excellent information and FREE
Used it during my short stay in Athens. Followed the free city walk and Acropolis audio guide. Provides just right amount of information for someone who does not have deep knowledge about the ancient world. Highly recommended.
Perfect for unplanned travel days!
This app was a godsend when my partner and I were in Rome. We had our original flights cancelled due to the CrowdStrike outage in July 2024 and had to push back our flights. So we missed our original plans for tours of the colosseum, the Vatican, and other landmarks. With this app we were able to get free audio tours of the landmarks and got to have an amazing experience at the sites and even just walking the streets of Rome. The guide was super specific and helped point out a ton of things we wouldn’t have noticed or understood the significance of. Highly recommend to anyone that’s traveling somewhere new!
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Amazing!
Great app to visit main sites in Italy! Thanks !!!
Some bugs… but unparalleled
Rick‘s guides and tours on this app are in a league of their own. What you get for free here is better than most paid audio tour content you can find online and on other apps. There are occasional crashes, and bugs where the audio control stops working when the app is in the background for too long, but it’s well worth those hiccups. I used this on an over 2 month excursion to Europe and every time I visited a new city I was excited to hear what Rick (and his friends) could teach me about it
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Audio cuts in & out constantly
The audio constantly cuts in & out. Makes the whole experience really bad.
Obnoxious
Why allow downloads if the app doesn’t work without a cell/WiFi signal? Idiotic.
Pleasantly surprised
I was in the midst away from the US for a year and was on a train from Poland to Germany when a man and his family mentioned they were using this app as a tour guide. After that I found it greatly helpful. Rome was especially great, but Paris and London were great as well. I used to just listen to whatever app the tour site lists, but I’m glad I found this one. Thank you Rick.
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Don’t pause it
If you pause the playback briefly, the app can’t resume easily. Either won’t PLAY at all, or sound cuts in and one. This is a longstanding issue
Most amazing app
No where else can you find this amount of free guides. Absolute cinema
Rome and beyond
Great tour of the colosseum in Rome. Step by step guide to the places they are talking about and useful for whatever access level you get to the colosseum.
It’s like have Rick Steves with You
The app has been wonderful guiding me and my wife on great tours around France. We each had one ear bud so we can listen at the same time. It was extremely helpful navigating the crowds at the Louvre and Versailles. Each guide also has relevant maps and info which was helpful.
I downloaded everything to my phone before ever leaving home so I could go to my playlist even if I didn’t have reception and play the audio.
I downloaded everything to my phone before ever leaving home so I could go to my playlist even if I didn’t have reception and play the audio.
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Time to update the app
App needs updating! Sound volume is fading in/out when iPhone screen is closed. Meaning, you must leave the screen active and waste battery life in order to listen. Not ideal for a long day Without your battery dying
Essential
This amazing app has accompanied me to five European cities so far. It’s essential if you like learning about the history of where you’re visiting. I always look forward to hearing the fun banter between Rick, Lisa, and other cohosts when I’m at a new destination.
Great app
We used it in Athens for the acropolis and ancient agora tours,Worked great and made things that we would usually stroll past interesting and engaging. One or two cheesy moments but still great. Would definitely recommend and use for other city’s
Good with bugs
I’ve used their guided audio tours through several cities in Europe. I really like their app, but the UI is quite outdated. More frustrating is the audio bug that’s been around for at least a year. If you pause or resume outside the app, the audio goes in and out. You have to re enter the app and pause/unpause.
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iPhone choppy audio playback
I’m a big fan of Rick’s content, but this app keeps cutting in and out, making it all but unusable. I’m sitting in Syntagma Square in Athens trying to do a tour and it’s not working. Also didn’t work right in Rome in December.
High recommended
It does a great job of giving you the context and history, while being concise and guiding you on an efficient route to see the important sights.
We followed it for our Italy trip, using for some city walk tours and museum/sight tours. For some museums we wanted to go more in-depth in, we rented the audio guide there as it has more content.
Most guidebooks don’t have routes designed so you spend time trying to find your way around. We also tried some other apps and they were not as good, wasting our time rambling on unimportant facts.
Remember to bring headphones. You can also download guides to use offline.
We followed it for our Italy trip, using for some city walk tours and museum/sight tours. For some museums we wanted to go more in-depth in, we rented the audio guide there as it has more content.
Most guidebooks don’t have routes designed so you spend time trying to find your way around. We also tried some other apps and they were not as good, wasting our time rambling on unimportant facts.
Remember to bring headphones. You can also download guides to use offline.
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Great audio tours, some issues with app
We used several of Rick’s audio tours for our first trip to Italy. His tours really brought to life the history of what we were seeing in famous places like the Colosseum and Roman Forum. We loved his tours of the Vatican Museum and Uffizi Gallery, letting us zeroed in on the art we shouldn’t miss. We did experience a few technical issues. The audio would sometimes cut-out. This especially happened if I paused the app. I would then have to stop, get out of app and get back in. Not great, but overall loved the tours-they added so much to the sights we were seeing! Thanks Rick!
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Apps functionality is horrible for a podcast app
Every audio app that is popular works functionally much better. While the content/podcasts are solid and the overall information is good, the actual app is the opposite. The apple version does not play consistently if the phone is locked, and causes cutouts/breaks of sound during the podcast every few seconds. The only way the audio would play uninterrupted was keeping the app open and pulled up. If any other app was pulled up, or the phone was locked, the podcasts go back to be choppy and almost unlistenable.
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Poor Execution
As others have said, the audio is choppy, frequently stopping when the phone screens goes dark. One must restart the app.
The content is so-so. The directions at various sites are poor. One is easily lost trying to follow obscure directions.
The narration is typical Rick Steves cynicism and snarkiness. Rick frequently and inappropriately imposes modern views on ancient subjects. As a Lutheran, Rick’s narration is liberally sprinkled with subtle or openly anti-Catholic statements.
The content is so-so. The directions at various sites are poor. One is easily lost trying to follow obscure directions.
The narration is typical Rick Steves cynicism and snarkiness. Rick frequently and inappropriately imposes modern views on ancient subjects. As a Lutheran, Rick’s narration is liberally sprinkled with subtle or openly anti-Catholic statements.
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