Comparison

TrailTale vs Tourguide FM

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

Tourguide FM

Features
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Tourguide FM is an AI audio tour guide for the incurably curious. Stand anywhere — a famous square, a village no guidebook bothered with, a room in the Courtauld — and Tourguide FM researches the real sources, writes your tour, and reads it to you in a warm, unhurried voice. Every guide is grounded in heritage registers, collection records and local histories, checked as it's made, and honest about what isn't known. WALKS Tell it where you are and how long you've got. It finds the notable places around you, draws a route down real streets, and guides you stop by stop — the wayfinding, the small details along the way, and the story of what you're looking at when you arrive. INSIDE Step into a museum, gallery or great building and curate your own tour: the highlights, one movement, or a theme of your own — 'animal paintings', 'one artist's rooms'. It opens with the story of the collection itself, then takes you work by work. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Name any place on earth and get a researched audio tour in minutes • See it through your lenses — architecture, history, food & drink, hidden stories • Go deeper on anything that catches you: one tap writes a longer piece on that exact thing • Read along with every word, open every stop's photographs, skip anywhere • Listen with the screen locked — the tour keeps playing as you walk MADE WITH RESTRAINT Built for people who want substance without the noise — no third-party trackers, no growth-hacking dark patterns, no endless feed. Just places, researched properly, read beautifully. YOUR DATA, YOUR CALL Download a full copy of your data, or delete your account and everything in it, right inside the app. Your location is used to find what's around you — never to track you. FREE WHILE WE LAUNCH Everything is free during the launch period. No trial clock, no card required. Tourguide FM is made in London, for anyone standing somewhere interesting. Every place, through your eyes.

Screenshots

TrailTale4 screens
Tourguide FM4 screens

Verdict

The call

TrailTale and Tourguide FM are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TrailTale versus Tourguide FM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrailTaleTourguide FM
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB3 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTrailTale LimitedChristopher Barrett

In-app purchases

None

TrailTale

No in-app purchases

None

Tourguide FM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TrailTale free?
TrailTale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tourguide FM free?
Tourguide FM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TrailTale or Tourguide FM have ads?
Neither TrailTale nor Tourguide FM shows ads.

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