CGN Tours vs Explorial
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CGN Tours
Explore Lake Geneva's shores from your boat with this audio guide. Discover historical stories about cities like Geneva and Lausanne, learn about the UNESCO World Heritage vineyards of Lavaux, and delve into the history of the CGN's Belle Époque fleet.
- Audio guide for boat tours
- Discover lakeside cities and towns
- Learn about Lavaux vineyards
- Explore Belle Époque fleet history
- On-demand historical stories
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Experience Lake Geneva in a whole new way! With this audio guide, discover the secrets of the lake’s shores. From the comfort of your boat, you’ll hear fascinating stories about Geneva, Lausanne, Vevey, Montreux, Chillon and the terraced vineyards of Lavaux, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You’ll also learn more about each boat in the CGN’s Belle Époque fleet – its history, its engine, its saloon, and more.
Explorial
Explore cities by solving interactive puzzles and challenges on foot. This game offers a fun and engaging way to discover new places, earning points as you go. It's designed for groups and can be played at your own pace, taking around 1-2 hours to complete a tour.
- Interactive puzzle solving
- City exploration
- Point collection system
- Self-paced gameplay
- Group activity
- Discover new cities
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Solve puzzles. Have fun. Get to know the city. Explorial is an interactive and challenging game in which the objective is to collect as many points as possible as a group. You explore the city on foot and get points for solving different types of tasks. Whether you know your way around the city or are just visiting, with Explorial you are guaranteed to get to know the city in a new way. To start a trail, you will need a smartphone with an active internet connection, the free Explorial app, and a valid ticket for each player. With the ticket you can start the game immediately. No reservation is necessary. You can explore the city at your own pace. The game is not limited in time. Typically, it takes about 1-2 hours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CGN Tours at 5.0 against Explorial's 3.3. CGN Tours also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 17) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Explorial's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months) and review sentiment (69% vs 50%). 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
Both are free to download. Explorial sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. CGN Tours asks for nothing beyond the download.
CGN Tours holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Explorial has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of CGN Tours's written reviews are positive against 69% of Explorial's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CGN Tours ships an update every 15 months, Explorial every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CGN Tours | Explorial |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.3 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 68.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CGN SA | Explorial GmbH |
Customer experience
CGN Tours
Explorial
In-app purchases
CGN Tours
No in-app purchases
Explorial
- Ticket (1x)$8.99
- Ticket (1x)$11.99
- Ticket (2x)$13.99
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- Ticket (2x)$15.99
- Ticket (2x)2 variants$17.99
- Ticket (3x)$20.99
- Ticket (2x)$23.99
- Ticket (3x)$23.99
- Ticket (2x)$24.99
- Ticket (3x)$24.99
- Ticket (3x)$26.99
- Ticket (4x)$27.99
- Ticket (5x)$29.99
- Ticket (4x)$36.99
- Ticket (3x)$39.99
- Ticket (4x)$49.99
