Angkor Wat SmartGuide vs Visit Angkor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Angkor Wat SmartGuide
This app transforms your smartphone into a personal guide for exploring the Angkor Archaeological Park. It offers GPS-aware audio and visual tours, including popular circuits and off-the-beaten-path routes, with offline capabilities to save data.
- GPS-aware audio-visual tours
- Offline mode for data saving
- Multiple circuit options (Small, Big, 1-day)
- Automatic audio narration
- Navigation assistance
- Avoids crowds
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Smart Guide turns your smartphone into a private guide! Stretching over some 400 square kilometres, including forested area, Angkor Archaeological Park contains the magnificent remains of several capitals of the Khmer Empire of the 9th to the 15th centuries, including the largest pre-industrial city in the world. The most famous are the Temple of Angkor Wat and, at Angkor Thom, the Bayon Temple with its countless sculptural decorations . Angkor Archaeological Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992. At the same time, it was also placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to looting, a declining water table, and unsustainable tourism. UNESCO has now set up a wide-ranging programme to safeguard this symbolic site and its surroundings. Choose the way of explore the Angkor Archaeological Park! Small Circuit ========== Small Circuit will show you the essence of Angkor Wat Archaeological Park. This 15 km tour can be done at one day including the visit of Angkor Wat temple. The tour will lead us to the Royal Enclosure in the ancient city Angkor Thom, Lara Croft Temple Ta Prohm and of course the temple of Angkor Wat. Small Circuit is great choice for anyone that has limited time for a visit, as well as for the first meeting with Khmer architecture during the first day of the stay here. Big Circuit ========= Since there are many majestic temples in the outskirts of the Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom city, it would be pitty not to see them. The Big Circuit is connected to the Small one and the extra route will take a half of a day. The whole Big Circuit is also great decision for the day two if you have two days for the Angkor Wat Archaeological park., after the first day spent at the Angkor Wat and temples of the Small Circuit. Angkor Wat in 1 day ================ Combines both the Big and the Small circuits and will show you the beauty of Angkor Wat Archaeological Park. Except the must-see attractions of Big’n’Small circuits, we will also wander off the beaten path to explore mystic temples lost in the jungle. The tour is designed to help you avoid the biggest crowds. SmartGuide Circuit can be done in one day, but can also be a great prologue before the visit of the Angkor Wat Temple. Smart Guide is simple and smart: It talks to you automatically when you approach an interesting place so you don’t need to read or study a map, just enjoy Smart Guide won’t let you get lost in Cambodia top attraction: When you wander off route, the guide will show you map and direction back based on your GPS position Offline mode so you don't pay for data: Download content over WiFi and then play outside without the need to use mobile data
Visit Angkor
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Visit Angkor application is a cultural tourism platform of the world heritage and sacred site of Angkor which is under the management of APSARA National Authority. This application provides the information about the temples as well as the practice tips to visit Khmer temples and its surrounding. It is a tool on which the Cambodian tourist could share their information and help for the preservation and development of Angkor.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Visit Angkor at none against Angkor Wat SmartGuide's 1. Angkor Wat SmartGuide's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (9.3 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
Both are free to download. Angkor Wat SmartGuide sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Visit Angkor asks for nothing beyond the download.
Angkor Wat SmartGuide ships an update every 2 weeks, Visit Angkor every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Angkor Wat SmartGuide | Visit Angkor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SmartGuide s.r.o. | UDAYA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD |
In-app purchases
Angkor Wat SmartGuide
- Premium Content$7.99
Visit Angkor
No in-app purchases
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