SmartTravelling vs gaïd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartTravelling
Discover curated travel guides for cities and regions worldwide, focusing on gastronomy, accommodation, and culture. Plan your trips with authentic recommendations and easily book hotels through integrated services.
- Premium travel guides
- Gastronomy, accommodation, cultural recommendations
- Over 50 cities and regions
- Personal trip planning
- Hotel booking integration
- New rating system
- My Day feature
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Smart Travelling Mobile App brings you in-depth premium travel guides for our favorite cities and regions in Europe and around the world. Created by the editors of the well-known travel book series "A perfect weekend in …" and "A perfect week in …". Smart Travelling selects on two criteria: excellence and soul. The authentic and unique can be found in our guides: Special places, welcoming us as if they were old friends. Specialising in gastronomy, accommodation and cultural recommendations for travellers in over 50 cities and regions worldwide. Offers tightly curated tips on restaurants, cafes, hotels and more. Use the app to plan your trip ahead of time, or to decide what to do in the moment, by looking at our recommendations near you. Create your personal guides to plan your trip. Book hotels easily thanks to our cooperation with booking.com! - New and revamped interface - Improved Google maps functionality - New rating system - New "My Day" feature: add some locations to a "to visit" list and mark them as visited once you've been there
gaïd
Discover curated selections of places in various cities, chosen by locals for different moods and categories. This app offers a map-based experience with one-tap booking and a private space for your own discoveries and notes. It focuses on editorial quality over crowdsourced reviews.
- Locally curated place selections
- Map-based discovery
- One-tap booking
- Private space for personal notes
- Editorial quality content
- Mood and category-based recommendations
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gaïd is the curated city guide for people who want the best answer, not every answer. A small, considered selection of places in each city, chosen by locals. For every mood, category and moment — from Italian dinner in New York to matcha cafés in Berlin to pilates studios in Paris. Everything on one map that knows where you are. One tap to book. One tap to go. Plus a private space for the places you discover yourself, with your own notes and your own memory. Not a review platform. Not algorithmic. Not crowdsourced. Every place is chosen, written, and considered. gaïd is an editorial product, built with taste as its only filter. gaïd is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewal subscription, with a 3-day free trial. To disable automatic renewal at any time, access your App Store settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://travelgaid.de/privacy-en Terms of Use: https://travelgaid.de/terms-en
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: gaïd at 100% against SmartTravelling's 61%. SmartTravelling's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. SmartTravelling sells 24 one-off in-app purchases and gaïd sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartTravelling | gaïd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | smart-travelling | gaid GmbH |
Customer experience
SmartTravelling
gaïd
In-app purchases
SmartTravelling
- Naples$4.90
- Florence$4.90
- Nice$4.90
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- Deutsch$4.90
- Berlin$5.90
- Paris$5.90
- London$5.90
- Venice$5.90
- Copenhagen$5.90
- Munich$5.90
- New York$5.90
- San Francisco$5.90
- Stockholm$5.90
- Vienna$5.90
- Côte d'Azur$5.90
- Istanbul$5.90
- Ibiza - Formentera$5.90
- Rome$5.90
- Piemont$5.90
- Madrid$5.90
- Sizilien$5.90
- Deutsch2 variants$5.90
- Gardasee$5.90
- Portugal$5.90
gaïd
- gaïd Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- gaïd Yearly3 Days trial$79.991 Year
