Comparison

Visit Gyumri vs Ruby

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Visit Gyumri

Explore the rich history and architecture of Gyumri, Armenia's cultural capital. This app provides maps, pictures, descriptions, and an audio guide for a comprehensive walking tour. It's timed to align with train travel from Yerevan, making it easy to experience the city's gems.

Highlights
  • Offline functionality
  • Scalable city map
  • Detailed stop descriptions
  • Multi-language audio guide
  • Includes museums, restaurants, and hotels
Features
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The Visit Gyumri Walking Tour is the ultimate companion that guides and introduces the cradle of Armenian culture and architecture. This app allows you to explore the rich history of Armenia's second largest city and a recognized CIS culture capital. You get maps, pictures, descriptions and an audio guide. The tour is also timed to match the train from Yerevan, so you can take the environmentally friendly train to Gyumri from the capital. The tour will start from the train station and be your companion to the city, the architectural gems and the wonderful creative people of Gyumri. The tour will then end back at the train station in time for you to catch the afternoon train back. Let us be your guide to Armenian's most hidden gem. Features: - Can be used in Airplane Mode [off-line] - Scalable map of the city - Description of each stop on the tour - Audio recordings in multi languages - Includes Museums, Restaurants and Hotels

About

Ruby

Features
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Armenia in your ears — from the pink stone of Yerevan to a monastery on the edge of a cliff. Narrated audio guides to the places travellers actually go in Armenia. Download once and they play anywhere: in a gorge, on a marshrutka, at 3,000 metres — with no signal, no roaming and no data. START FREE The whole Yerevan guide is free, from a fortress raised in 782 BC to the singing fountains of Republic Square. Every other guide has a free excerpt, so you hear the narrator before you pay anything. NO SUBSCRIPTION — EVER Buy one guide, or unlock the entire library with a single payment and keep it for life. Nothing renews. Nothing expires. New guides are included in full access as they arrive. WHAT'S INSIDE • Yerevan — Republic Square, the Opera, the Cascade, the Matenadaran, Tsitsernakaberd (free) • Garni Temple — Armenia's only Greco-Roman temple, and the Symphony of Stones • Geghard Monastery — hewn into living rock, UNESCO World Heritage • Khor Virap — the deep pit of St Gregory, with Mount Ararat filling the sky behind it • Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin — the cathedral of the world's first Christian nation • Zvartnots Cathedral — the 7th-century rotunda an earthquake brought down • Tatev Monastery — cliff-top, reached by the world's longest reversible cable car • Sevanavank — two dark churches on a peninsula in Lake Sevan • Haghartsin — honey-coloured churches deep in the forests of Dilijan • Goshavank — a medieval university, and a khachkar carved like lace ...and more added over time. Every guide is cut into short chapters you can take at your own pace. BUILT FOR THE ROAD • Genuinely offline — the audio lives on your phone, it is not streamed • Chapter by chapter, so you listen while you walk and pause while you look • Every guide resumes exactly where you stopped • Plays in the background, with lock screen, AirPods and car controls • Open any site in Apple, Google or Yandex Maps, in one tap • Storage you control — see what each guide takes up, delete it, and it stays yours to download again TIPS FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE Which ride app to use, and why there is no Uber. Why you need dram and not dollars. What to wear inside a monastery. Which sites pair up on one day's drive. Where the best gata is. Practical advice, not filler. ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN Both the guides and the app speak either language, and the two are chosen separately. Change either at any time. WHO IT IS FOR Independent travellers, road trips with a hired driver, cruise and layover visitors, diaspora coming home, and anyone who would rather have a story in their ear than follow a stranger holding an umbrella. No account. No sign-up. No ads. No tracking.

Screenshots

Visit Gyumri4 screens
Ruby4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Visit Gyumri at none against Ruby's 10. Visit Gyumri also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ruby sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Visit Gyumri asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Visit Gyumri versus Ruby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisit GyumriRuby
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital Pomegranate, LLCTigran Barseghyan

In-app purchases

None

Visit Gyumri

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Ruby

One-time10
  • Audio Guide - GeghardMonastery$0.99
  • Audio Guide - Haghartsin$0.99
  • Audio Guide-ZvartnotsCathedral$0.99
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  • Audio Guide - Goshavank$0.99
  • Audio Guide - Khor Virap$0.99
  • Audio Guide - Sevanavank$0.99
  • Audio Guide - Garni Temple$1.99
  • Audio Guide - Etchmiadzin$1.99
  • Audio Guide - Tatev Monastery$1.99
  • All audio guides$8.99

Questions

Is Visit Gyumri free?
Visit Gyumri is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ruby free?
Ruby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Visit Gyumri or Ruby have ads?
Neither Visit Gyumri nor Ruby shows ads.

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