Amsterdam audio stories vs Simple Motion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Amsterdam audio stories
Explore Amsterdam's most fascinating areas with expert-led audio stories. Navigate the city at your own pace, uncovering history and culture through engaging narratives from historians, locals, and professionals. This app offers an immersive, self-guided tour experience.
- Expert-led audio stories
- Self-guided tours
- Offline functionality
- GPS navigation
- Interactive map
- Transcripts available
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Learn everything about Holland's most fascinating area today. Use the app on your couch, during a flight, in the train or while exploring the Netherlands. Become an Amsterdam connoisseur with this amazing travel app. You'll get educated by historians, police officers, tour guides, real sex workers, archeologists, sexologists, entrepreneurs, locals and many other experts. Amsterdam Audio Tours is fun, interesting and super exciting! Whether you’re solo or with others, with this app you can decide yourself when you want to tour around in the famous "Wallen", while you have 22 experts and the best stories in your pocket. Experience how this part of Amsterdam represents the liberal and open-minded Dutch culture. With Amsterdam Audio Tours you won’t be shackled to a tour group. Your eyes won’t be glued to guide books or gadgets. Just keep your eyes open and follow Sophie’s lead. You’ll safely walk down back alleys and push through secret passageways, to where the real hart of Amsterdam beats. We’ll peel back layers of history as if the walls could talk. Bring friends if you want. You can listen together. The virtual tour guide will point out all the wonders in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. We’ll peel back layers of history as if the walls could talk. Navigate the ‘De Wallen‘ area with the help of virtual tour guide Sophie, GPS, 31 highlights, photos and 22 experts that you’ll virtually meet along the way. Including: ■ Virtual tour guide ■ Stories ■ Pictures ■ GPS ■ Interactive map ■ Instructions ■ Transcripts ■ City highlights Features: - Amsterdam Audio Tours also works offline. First download the tour, then you can listen to the audio offline and view the map offline. - The GPS in combination with the audio ensures that you can concentrate on the best highlights in the city. - The virtual tour guide will guide you between the fun & educational stories of the experts. - Play, pause, stop and reply whenever you want, wherever you want. Listen to stories of these 22 experts: 1) Patrick – Police officer 2) Jerzy Gawronski – City archaeologist 3) Veronique Verschueren – Smart shop owner 4) August de Loor – Drug researcher 5) Walther Schoonenberg – Architectural historian 6) Russell Shorto – Historian & author 7) Birgit Buchner – Director of hidden Catholic church 8) Dennis de Borst – CEO of FEBO Netherlands 9) Dr. Kate Lister – Sex work historian 10) Hugo van Heijningen – Founder of Red Light Radio 11) Herman Vuijsje – Sociologist and writer 12) Mariska Majoor – Sex worker activist 13) EJ – Tour guide 14) Theodoor van Boven – Owner of world’s first condom shop 15) Kasia – Window prostitute 16 & 17) Martine & Louise Fokkens – Twin sisters who worked as prostitutes for 50 years 18) Jan Otten – Owner of sex shows 19) Lyle Muns – Escort & local politician 20) Piet Middelkoop – Ex-cop who worked in Amsterdam Red Light District. 21) Henny Tinga – Front woman of Amsterdam Salvation Army. 22) Diana van Laar – Gay bar owner. Subjects: - Laws, safety & rules - History - Languages and meaning of words - Architecture - Religion - Food - Prostitution - Music - Sociology - Art - Sex and contraceptives - Politics - Social control ■ Language: English. ■ Duration: 2 hours. ■ Required: Smartphone & Headset. Experience these highlights in Amsterdam: * Weepers Tower * De Wallen * Zeedijk & The Old Sailors Quarter * Warmoesstraat * Canal houses * Our Lord in the Attic * FEBO * Old Church (Oude Kerk) * Red-lit window brothels * Prostitution Information Centre * Sex worker statue * Coffeeshops * Smartshops * Narrow alleys * Hidden art * Amsterdam Stock Exchange * Condomerie * Canal bridges * Museum of Prostitution * Peep show * Blue-lit window brothels * The Waag * New Market Square * Chinatown * Buddhistic Temple * Moulin Rouge * Salvation Army * LGBT bar * Dutch architecture Support: Need help with the app? Please contact us and we'll solve it as soon as possible. https://www.amsterdamredlightdistricttour.com/contact/
Simple Motion
Create hand-drawn animations with a digital toolkit designed for ease of use. Features include a timeline, onion skinning, and multiple layer types for diverse animation styles. Ideal for students and hobbyists learning the craft.
- Hand-drawn animation tools
- Onion skinning for frame reference
- Scrubbable timeline with frame manipulation
- Multiple layer types (Drawing, Stop Motion, Video, Audio)
- Apple Pencil integration with pressure and tilt
- Shape recognition and paint fill
- Floating color palette and asset library
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Draw a frame. Draw the next one. Press play. Simple Motion is a hand-drawn animation studio for iPad and iPhone, built around the way animation is actually taught — a stack of drawings, a timeline, and an onion skin to keep it all moving. Everything a student needs is one tap away, and everything they don't need stays out of the way. **Draw with Apple Pencil, the way it should feel** Ink is pure PencilKit, so it's as fast and as natural as writing on paper, pressure, tilt, double-tap, the lot. Pinch to zoom, twist to rotate the canvas to a comfortable angle, and tap four fingers to hide every tool and see only your drawing. Shape recognition turns a wobbly circle into a clean one when you hold still at the end of a stroke, and the paint fill tool floods an outline in a single tap. **See your animation move while you draw it** Onion skin ghosts the frames either side in red and blue, with independent counts for before and after. Flip and roll through neighbouring frames to check your motion — the fundamental animator's flick, now a button. Playback runs at your project's frame rate with a scrubbable playhead, custom in and out points, and looped ranges. **A timeline that works like a real dope sheet** Pinch the timeline to zoom through five sizes; past the middle rung every cell shows a thumbnail of the drawing on it. Hold a drawing across frames, build cycles and ping-pongs from a range, drag frames to reorder them, copy and paste between layers and projects, and use select mode to act on a batch at once. Named, coloured markers keep track of beats and dialogue. **Layers for every kind of animation** Eight layer types: Drawing, Stop Motion, Image, Video, Audio, Guide, Adjustment and Annotation. Shoot claymation with the built-in stop-motion camera and its ghost alignment overlay. Rotoscope over an imported video, sampled on ones, twos or threes. Add a soundtrack and trim, cut and slide it against the picture. Drop in a Guide layer for motion arcs and timing charts that appear over everything and never export. Reorder, hide, lock, merge, duplicate, and set opacity or blend modes per layer. **Colour, assets and references, always to hand** A floating colour palette you can drop anywhere on screen, with a proper picker, an eyedropper with a magnifier, and your five most recent colours one tap away. Build a library of reusable drawings — mouth shapes for lip-sync, a set of hands, a logo — stored with the project and stamped onto the canvas as real, editable ink. Move a whole library between projects as a single file. Pin a reference photo or video in a floating panel, zoom into a detail, and pick colours straight off it. **Made for a classroom** Organise the gallery into folders by class or assignment, search across all of them at once, and sort by name or by what was opened last. Save any project as a template, hand it out, and every student who taps it starts a fresh copy with the canvas size, frame rate and guide layers already set — the original is never drawn on. Back up a project to a single file to collect, archive or move between iPads. **Share it however you need** Export an animated GIF, an MP4 with its soundtrack, a sprite sheet, a single PNG frame, or a numbered image sequence with your choice of naming convention. Stills and sequences can keep a transparent background for use elsewhere. Every export renders at full resolution, whatever quality you preview at. **Nothing is ever lost** Every action that changes a drawing can be undone, several steps back, from the toolbar or the snackbar that appears the moment something is deleted. Two fingers to undo, three to redo, straight on the canvas. Twelve drawings and an idea is all it takes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple Motion at every 9 days against Amsterdam audio stories's every 3 months. Simple Motion also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and price ($2.99 vs $5.99). Amsterdam audio stories's advantage is ratings volume (200 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Amsterdam audio stories costs $5.99 and Simple Motion $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple Motion holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Amsterdam audio stories has 200 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Amsterdam audio stories ships an update every 3 months, Simple Motion every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Amsterdam audio stories | Simple Motion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (200 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 200 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elard Tissot | Duncan Pollock |
Customer experience
Amsterdam audio stories
Simple Motion
Bugs and requests
Amsterdam audio stories
Reported bugs
2 issues- GPS is too sensitive and skips sections
- Cannot disable GPS without disabling map
Requested features
2 requests- Add 1.5x audio playback speed
- Consider augmented reality features
Simple Motion
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Amsterdam audio stories
No in-app purchases
Simple Motion
No in-app purchases
Questions
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