Porto dismally doesn’t work.
Downloaded to use in Porto, GPS doesn’t locate, map doesn’t update, and there’s no audio.
Waste of time
App seems to be retired.
Fix the app
I downloaded this app since I wanted to take an audio tour of Coyoacán in Mexico City.
Right off the bat, I encountered some difficulty. I made an account, but logging in wouldn’t do anything. It would just bring me back to the sign-on main page and say nothing else. After 4 attempts, things got worse. All of a sudden, it logged me in 4 times at once, giving me an onslaught of repeating pop-ups that it took me a solid 3 minutes to trudge my way through. After I finally accepted the terms and conditions for the fourth time, the tour I wanted to listen to was “under revision” and didn’t work, telling me to check back later. Maybe I was just unlucky, but honestly I’m too frustrated to continue using this app after all that. It has a lot of potential, but is severely held back by flawed programming.
Right off the bat, I encountered some difficulty. I made an account, but logging in wouldn’t do anything. It would just bring me back to the sign-on main page and say nothing else. After 4 attempts, things got worse. All of a sudden, it logged me in 4 times at once, giving me an onslaught of repeating pop-ups that it took me a solid 3 minutes to trudge my way through. After I finally accepted the terms and conditions for the fourth time, the tour I wanted to listen to was “under revision” and didn’t work, telling me to check back later. Maybe I was just unlucky, but honestly I’m too frustrated to continue using this app after all that. It has a lot of potential, but is severely held back by flawed programming.
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Doesn’t run automatically
I downloaded Mt. St. Helens guide and was looking forward for a great guided trip. But the app didn’t automatically run no matter what I’ve done. The whole point of such guide app it’s to find the user’s location and to run the audio automatically. Instead we had to start the audio manually, hopefully it is the right time. Obviously we had no idea if what was playing in the app is what we see. Very disappointing experience. Paid money for nothing.
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Great idea - Needs more polish
It was great to see the variety of tours - and we were delighted to see a Chichen Itza guide but it has many issues.
(1) Too Long: It is 90 degrees outside in Cancun. Standing and listening to the paragraphs of rambling text is an exercise in endurance. If there were actual stories - it would be bearable - but these are filled with generalizations rather than stories peppered with facts.
(2) Slow Speakers: Humans can listen at 300 words per minutes. People speak at 100 wpm. That means we are continually bored listening to people. The speakers take their time talking. Get faster speakers or let us increase the speed.
(3) Missing Text: Where's the text for Chichen Itza? The app store pictures show text. We would prefer to just read it aloud ourselves instead of listening to your pictures - that way we can skip to the stories and facts and remove all the fluff.
(4) Unlabeled/Unsynchonized Pictures: The pictures aren't labeled. They talk about different trees - there are pictures of trees - but none of them are labeled so you still don't know what tree they are discussing. The pictures should synchonize with the spoken text.
(5) This is a WALKING guide, not a STANDING guide. Why isn't this designed to talk to you while you walk? Never once does it say, "Now walk to the temple"...and then give you audio to teach you something while you walk. That would be value added. Instead, you walk with no idea what to play until you get there. That means they have created a STANDING guide. You walk and then stand - often longer than you normally would.
(1) MIssing Text: There's audio but where is the text? We would prefer to read these aloud ourselves rather than listen
(1) Too Long: It is 90 degrees outside in Cancun. Standing and listening to the paragraphs of rambling text is an exercise in endurance. If there were actual stories - it would be bearable - but these are filled with generalizations rather than stories peppered with facts.
(2) Slow Speakers: Humans can listen at 300 words per minutes. People speak at 100 wpm. That means we are continually bored listening to people. The speakers take their time talking. Get faster speakers or let us increase the speed.
(3) Missing Text: Where's the text for Chichen Itza? The app store pictures show text. We would prefer to just read it aloud ourselves instead of listening to your pictures - that way we can skip to the stories and facts and remove all the fluff.
(4) Unlabeled/Unsynchonized Pictures: The pictures aren't labeled. They talk about different trees - there are pictures of trees - but none of them are labeled so you still don't know what tree they are discussing. The pictures should synchonize with the spoken text.
(5) This is a WALKING guide, not a STANDING guide. Why isn't this designed to talk to you while you walk? Never once does it say, "Now walk to the temple"...and then give you audio to teach you something while you walk. That would be value added. Instead, you walk with no idea what to play until you get there. That means they have created a STANDING guide. You walk and then stand - often longer than you normally would.
(1) MIssing Text: There's audio but where is the text? We would prefer to read these aloud ourselves rather than listen
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