This travel guide app uses GPS to provide audio narratives about New Zealand's history, geography, and wildlife. It brings local myths and legends to life through storytelling, creating an immersive journey of discovery.
5.0(8 ratings)
Free
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Updated October 2026
Waimangu is great, but it's not the only option. Explore 10+ similar apps for iPhone and iPad, each reviewed and rated by real users. Find free alternatives, premium upgrades, and hidden gems.
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3.2(6 ratings)
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Hauraki Coromandel Travel App by Groundtruth Limited
Strong Contender
✈️ Travel
0.0(0 ratings)
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4.7😐(27 ratings)
Free
Discover over 3,000 hiking tracks, huts, and campsites across New Zealand. Plan your adventures with detailed track information, weather forecasts, and safety alerts. Build custom routes and share trip details with emergency contacts for a safe and enjoyable outdoor experience.
What We Love
- 👍 Very useful for planning walks/tramps
- 🗺️ Great for mapping routes
- ✅ Helps ensure things go to plan
- 🌍 Well-informed, especially for NZ
- 🆘 Includes emergency contacts and DOC notification
- 💪 Makes users feel more confident
- 🚶 Ideal for anyone going into NZ outdoors
- 📚 Good info and user reviews/photos
- ✅ Useful for finding suitable tracks
- 💡 Great idea for an app
- ✅ Helps prevent going on closed hikes
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Full of incredible walks
- 👍 Great interface
- 👍 Good concept
- 👍 Helpful for researching walks
- 👍 Great for avid walkers
- 👍 Fantastic family day walk
- 👍 Useful for deciding between options
- 👍 Good up-to-date info on hikes
- 👍 Highly recommend for short or long hikes
- 👍 Better than All Trails
- 👍 Gear list is super helpful
- 👍 Useful tool to support outdoor adventure
- 👍 Easy to create trip plans and share
- 👍 Custom track feature is useful
- 👍 First class app
- 👍 Automatic weather updates and track alerts
- 👍 Love that it includes council tracks
Room to Improve
- 👎 Doc website not easy to navigate
- 🤔 Not user friendly, needs time to understand
- ❓ Can't figure out how to start the trail
- 📶 Doesn't load without internet connection
- ⚠️ Constantly prompts to turn on notifications
- 🫗 App can be jumpy
- ❓ No elevation on hike summary
- ❓ No facility to upload to Garmin
- 😵 Clunky and not user friendly
- ⚠️ Some tracks do not load on map
- 📝 Track descriptions can be vague
- ⚠️ Logs out frequently
- 🐛 Bug: App not saving date when planning
- 🐛 Bug: Reverts to current day when adding walk
- 🐛 Bug: Sign in text fields and buttons invisible
- 🐛 Bug: App no longer loads, stuck on opening screen
- 🐛 Bug: Did not receive authentication code
- 🐛 Bug: App restarts itself when viewing tracks on map
- 🐛 Bug: App continuously restarts/reloads
- 🐛 Bug: App crashes on the map
- 🐛 Bug: Restarts when filtering tracks
- 🐛 Bug: Keeps restarting on main page
- 🐛 Bug: Crashes every 10 seconds or restarts on map/track
- 🐛 Bug: Crashes and restarts when Location Services is on
- 🐛 Bug: Keeps refreshing every few seconds
- 🐛 Bug: Keeps backing out every 5 seconds
- 🐛 Bug: Constantly restarting when trying to download maps
- 🐛 Bug: Unusable, restarts over and over
- 🐛 Bug: Crashes all the time and reloads
- 🐛 Bug: Too many issues, not a finished product
- 🐛 Bug: Can't load anything and crashes every time
- 🐛 Bug: App restarts when under strain (zooming map)
- 👎 Needs a few tweaks
- 👎 Needs serious work
- 👎 Very frustrating
