# Yellowstone National Park — user reviews > 30 indexed App Store user reviews of Yellowstone National Park by Josefina Martin, rated 4.80/5 from 1,957 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yellowstone-national-park/id1047797114/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yellowstone-national-park/id1047797114.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,681 · 4★ 171 · 3★ 56 · 2★ 14 · 1★ 35 ## What do users think of Yellowstone National Park? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Awesome place - 👍 Enjoyed the adventure - 👍 Prices for food **Cons** - 💸 Mostly just ads and in-app purchases - 👎 Useless and not helpful - 👎 Difficult to use and navigate - 🔌 Kept crashing when offline - 📱 Poorly designed UI/UX **Commonly reported bugs** - AR feature does not work - Frequent crashes and errors **Most requested features** - Improve geyser time information - Provide more detailed park maps - Optimize for offline use ## Newest reviews (11 of 30) ### 1/5 — very confusing and not useful *2020-07-26* using this app is a waste of battery power, useless in the park unless you pay. would not recommend might as well use a map- has the same information ### 1/5 — It has a map *2020-07-15* It has a map and very cumbersome articles. The AR feature does not work - and with limited cell reception in Yellowstone NP many features of the App are useless. ### 1/5 — What did I just buy? *2020-06-21* What a complete waste of money. Made by someone who certainly has never stepped foot in Yellowstone. App does nothing! It’s just links to buy tours that cost $500. Am I missing something? ### 1/5 — Wofür bezahlen? *2018-08-22, version 1.7* Die Zoombereich Karte kann man auch kostenlos als PDF herunterladen ### 1/5 — Not free app *2018-06-25, version 1.7* Useless unless you pay for the upgrade ### 1/5 — Better off with the NPS apps or the one with the picture of the bison in the icon *2017-08-10* Absolutely not worth the money. The in-app map purchase can be downloaded from the NPS site. ### 1/5 — everything costs money!!! *2017-07-03* You can easily find all the information without this app. Not worth it ### 1/5 — Pointless. *2017-06-23* This app offers as much guidance for a trip to Yellowstone as a child's second grade school report. Don't buy this guide. Just web search "Yellowstone National Park." The map contained within this app is right on Yellowstone's website. ### 1/5 — This App is Not Helpful *2017-02-20, version 1.3* To get any map you must pay extra. For example the map to give you for Yellowstone cost three dollars and is just the map they give you for free when you going to the park. Then if you want any other map you have to buy them all as well. But the worst map they have is for Yellowstone. The app is very difficult to use. It is not intuitive at all. ### 1/5 — Nothing for free *2016-04-12, version 1.0* Go to National Park site and see if you don't get more for free. This app maker has little to offer, and the navigation irked me enough to not want to see what the purchase has. ### 1/5 — Content very general *2016-01-29, version 1.0* Content of this app is very general. Same stuff you would get in the free brochure and map when you enter YNP. Map ($2.99 add on purchase) is just a pic of the free national park service map...no trail details, etc. A rip off!...save your money. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Tours *2025-08-30* App is good for reserving tours but provides no real information for anyone not looking to spend money but just travel the park. ### 1/5 — NOT THE OFFICIAL APP!! *2023-06-16* This serves as a bunch of ads for businesses and does not really provide much information about Yellowstone itself. Avoid like the plague! ### 1/5 — Get nps app instead *2023-05-07, version 1.11* No geyser times, bad UX and UI ### 1/5 — Kept crashing when offline *2022-09-25* I like the app, but whenever I don’t have signal (which is like the entire time in the park) the app produces an error and you can’t navigate to anything. Makes the app pretty useless. ### 1/5 — Slipped by Apple screeners - shouldn’t be in store *2021-06-14* First time I’ve downloaded an app from Apple store that appears to be designed to do nothing but get you to sign up for their service. Eg, click on Hotels and it insists you sign into an account. Large ads appear constantly. I deleted this stinker immediately. ### 1/5 — Basically a bunch of ads...? *2021-05-06* This app mostly just has a bunch of ads for tours and experiences, plus some expensive in-app purchases. Go get the totally free NPS Yellowstone app instead. ### 1/5 — Scammy *2021-05-04* The app is poorly made and it trying to sell you things constantly ### 1/5 — Lame app *2020-08-12* Does not have much interesting information and is really just trying to sell me things. No thanks ! ### 1/5 — Useless and BOGUS !!! It’s Covid-19 people! *2020-08-04* The App does not reflect operating reality with food and services closed throughout the park. LISTS OF BREAKFAST ITEMS YOU CANNOT BUY? C’mon. Shame on all including the NPS to allow this ‘fake news.’ WILL DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD BY PROMOTING UNPREPARED TRAVELERS TO VISIT. ### 1/5 — Tour booking app not an actual guide *2020-08-03* Most of the free content on here appears geared towards selling tours vs actionable itinerary information - would not recommend ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Prices for food *2023-07-04* Need to redo prices ### 5/5 — Awesome *2021-05-23, version 1.10* Awesome ### 5/5 — Yellowstone National Park *2021-05-18, version 1.10* This was our first time ever coming to Wyoming or Yellowstone. We are so in awe of the beauty and the magnitude of the park. I’ve watched many YouTube videos by various people and the park Rangers’s before visiting. None could never explain how truly magnificent the park is. The mountains, the huge Buffalo, old faithful and the hot springs and geysers. You have to see it and experience it for yourself to really rap your mind around this park. I have and it is awesome. ### 5/5 — Awesome place *2020-12-06, version 1.10* Yellowstone is a national treasure! ### 5/5 — Never Disappoints *2019-08-24* I first listened to GyPSy while in Oahu for a wedding. It turned the one day of free time I had into an epic adventure. This year, crossing the country with only a day to spend here and there, this series made Yellowstone accessible and amazing. We learned so much, stopped at all the “must do” spots and had an AMAzing Day! Can’t wait to go back next year and finish the loops. If you are in Yellowstone, this app is a must have. ### 5/5 — Enjoyed it! *2017-12-18* Loved this adventure. The guide made it easier to visit the park. Recommended. **Developer response:** Thank you very much. We are very happy that you enjoyed the app. ### 2/5 — Nothing But Ads *2025-09-16* The free version of this app leaves a lot to be desired. Geyser times are not provided as promised or are harder to find than the lost colonists of Jamestown. The pictures are gorgeous, but are largely just from Shutterstock, and the map is great, but is supplied free from the parks service, so no biggie there. Just not impressed and didn’t find anything useful. ### 2/5 — Lord of text on the app *2023-07-11* There is a ton of reading with small text on the app. Although there is a lot of information. I think it can be thought out better allowing for bigger fonts, more separation and headings. ### 2/5 — Just charge for the app *2019-01-05* Why bother advertising the app as being free if you are going to charge for each aspect of the app. Just be upfront about the cost **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. We are very sorry you have had a bad experience with the app. We are trying to improve it in a daily basis. As you may know there are many revenue models within the apps and we have decided to use the freemium model (free to download with locked content). We have never implied anything other than that. Even if you look at the app store page, it says that the app contains In App Purchases and it shows a price for each one of them. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*