Comparison

TrailTale vs MK Trails

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

Head to head
About

TrailTale

Discover self-guided walking tours and explore attractions across Great Britain. This app offers free, offline routes through London and charming towns, packed with historical facts, photos, and maps. Easily find interesting places near you with a convenient 'Explore Near Me' feature.

Highlights
  • Free self-guided walking tours
  • Offline access to routes
  • Explore attractions near you
  • Historical facts and trivia
  • Turn-by-turn walking directions
  • Family-friendly content
Features
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TrailTale is a free exploration walking trail app offering self-guided walking tours of London and acts as a repository of many attractions in Great Britain. Choose a London walking route or explore some of the most fascinating places near you. The guided walking routes in London take you through the most interesting places in London and along a selection of cities, towns, and villages, telling you their fascinating stories and rich histories. All walks are FREE and no in-app purchase is required. Suitable for the whole family, with bonus stops and trivia at famous filming locations from Harry Potter to Bridget Jones along the way. GB Town and village routes are available all over the country, packed with fun facts, photos, maps, and images and some have an audio guide, allowing you to listen while exploring. Finding other attractions near you has never been so easy. Simply use the ‘Explore Near Me’ feature in the app to see what fun places are available to you. Filter them by your preference. It's FREE. Why Pick the TrailTale Walking Route App for London & other Cities? • All Walking Routes are FREE • All the guided walks are available offline • The self-guided walks are developed with the help of local experts • Easy to pause at any time • Precise turn by turn walking directions • Feature’s locations for the whole family • Filter the ‘explore’ points based on your preferences There are 20 Guided London Walks: 1. Palaces, clubs of St. James’s London (22 POIs) 2. South London City Charles Dickens Bridge to London City (28) 3. Hidden London City Banks to Liverpool London City (11) 4. Amazing immigration story East Meets London City (25) 5. Westminster, Harry Potter Governing London (23) 6. Hidden Law Quarters Inns of London (25) 7. Old Bailey and Barbican London City of Bars and Barts (17) 8. Temple church London of Law and News (24) 9. Great Fire Harry Potter Jack The Ripper Towers of London City (28) 10. Friars Shakespeare Livery London City (20) 11. Covent Garden The Stand Stranding London (20) 12. River Thames The Tower to Westminster Sweat Thamsing London (20) 13. London’s famous village Highs of Hampstead (21) 14. Old hospital famous artists Charming Chelsea (24) 15. Jack the Ripper Docks The Pirates of Wapping (21) 16. Clubs, History Rock ‘n’ Roll Swinging Soho (21) 17. Historic people, espionage, market Fair Mayfair (28) 18. Palace, Hospital, Banksy Lambeth (18) 19. Well, Old Gate, prison Clerkenwell (28) 20. Maritime, palaces Greenwich (28) Guided Walks Outside London: • Alnwick • Alresford • Amersham • Berkeley • Berkhamsted • Bibury • Bishops Stortford • Bolton • Bourton on the Water • Brighton • Bristol • Cambridge • Canterbury • Chichester • Chipping Campden • Colchester • Dyserth • Edinburgh • Exeter • Glastonbury • Gloucester • Godmanchester • Hertford • Horwich • Huntingdon • Liverpool • Newcastle • Northampton • Norwich • Oxford • Ramsey • Rochester • Southampton • St Albans • St Neots • St Ives • Stroud • Stratford upon Avon • Thame • Warwick • Westhoughton • Windsor • Winchester • Worksop • York

About

MK Trails

Features
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This app tells stories about Milton Keynes. These are partly told through the words of historians who have studied the town, partly through the lenses of cameras which have photographed it and partly through the voices of the people who have lived here. Use the app to follow walking trails around the towns and villages of Milton Keynes and learn about its rich history. Wolverton was the world’s first railway town, created on a greenfield site in Buckinghamshire by the London and Birmingham Railway Company in the 1830s as a staging post – the farthest their steam locomotives could run without refuelling or mechanical attention. Olney Trails guide you around the Georgian market town of Olney, the “Home of Amazing Grace”. This app makes use of GPS to show you places of interest close to your current location. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Screenshots

TrailTale4 screens
MK Trails4 screens

Verdict

The call

TrailTale and MK Trails are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TrailTale ships an update every 5 months, MK Trails every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TrailTale versus MK Trails: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrailTaleMK Trails
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.114.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB200 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTrailTale LimitedAT Creative Limited

In-app purchases

None

TrailTale

No in-app purchases

None

MK Trails

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TrailTale free?
TrailTale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MK Trails free?
MK Trails is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TrailTale or MK Trails have ads?
Neither TrailTale nor MK Trails shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TrailTale or MK Trails?
TrailTale ships an update every 5 months, and MK Trails every 9 months. Most recently, TrailTale was updated on October 3, 2026 and MK Trails on October 6, 2026.

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