GuruWalk vs Key tours
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GuruWalk
Discover the world's best free walking tours led by passionate local guides. Book tours for free and pay what you feel the experience was worth at the end. Explore cities and learn about culture and history in over 1000 destinations worldwide.
- Free walking tours
- Local guides
- Pay-what-you-want model
- Global destinations
- Cultural exploration
- History tours
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GuruWalk is the platform where you can find the best free tour guides in the world. The free tours or guruwalks are fun and entertaining guided tours where you learn a lot of things. You book for free and pay at the end the amount you consider according to your experience. FREE TOURS OR GURUWALKS, ARE COMPOSED OF: Gurus: Passionate local guides, with great knowledge about the city and local customs. Walkers: Travelers who prefer this kind of tours and want to discover every corner of the world with GuruWalk. We are currently present in 117 countries and in more than 1000 destinations. Our goal is to bring culture closer to everyone and give them the opportunity to discover new places through passionate local guides. Our mission is to create a more empathetic society by facilitating access to culture and history through unique experiences. and history through unique experiences anywhere in the world.
Key tours
Explore Greece's rich history and culture with self-guided walking tours. Discover hidden gems and popular attractions with detailed maps, historical content, and audio guides. This app provides an offline travel companion to navigate Greece's heritage.
- Self-guided walking tours
- Offline functionality
- GPS tracking
- Detailed maps
- Historical content
- Audio guides
- Alerts for key stops
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This app is your easy-to-use travel companion to unravel the fascination of Greece. Discover the cultural variety of more than 4000 years in the palm of your hand with a series of self-guided walking tours, featuring the hidden gems and the best that Key Tours has to offer. Each of the Tours is designed to give you an insight into what it is like to be navigated by a professional and local guide, who shows you the best of the Greek capital's heritage as well as the treasure of Greece's mainland. Experience the real Greek culture and everyday life, simply by choosing a tour based on your interests and desires. Find directions with detailed maps, in-depth historical content and popular attractions. Once a Tour is downloaded it can work offline: - to track your position along the route using your phone GPS, never get lost - sends you alerts when you have reached a key stop - shows photos, descriptions and audio of key stops along the route
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GuruWalk at 2.8 against Key tours's 1.8. GuruWalk also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 23) and review sentiment (35% vs 6%). Key tours's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, monetization model 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. Key tours sells 23 one-off in-app purchases. GuruWalk asks for nothing beyond the download.
GuruWalk holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 40 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of GuruWalk's written reviews are positive against 6% of Key tours's.
GuruWalk ships an update fortnightly, Key tours every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GuruWalk | Key tours |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (33 ratings) — better | 1.8 (40 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 34.6% of reviews — better | 6.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 33 | 40 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GuruWalk | Key tours |
Customer experience
GuruWalk
Key tours
Bugs and requests
GuruWalk
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Key tours
Reported bugs
27 issues- Purchased key didn't work
- App keeps saying checking for updates
- Geolocation doesn't work half the time
- Saint Minas Cathedral not in the right place
- App would struggle to keep up when switching to take pictures
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- Codes to type in are all expired immediately
- Geolocation got lost after first few stops
- App would stop halfway through audio
- Started scrolling pictures with no way to navigate out
- App opened but started giving info on a different site
- App simply wouldn’t go beyond the first point
- App doesn't work
- Cannot download at all
- App bugging constantly
- Audio stops mid-way
- App unresponsive
- Jumps from audio to audio
- Issues with the map
- App kept freezing whenever the phone was not in active use
- App would complete the current audio reading but you could not navigate further
- The “playing” interface isn’t well designed
- The little playing bar at the bottom of the screen never shows you what clip you’re listening too
- App skips regularly from one chapter to another
- App would frequently crash or restart
- The app kept bugging it was a serious waste of money
- App was bugging all the time, overriding the on-going explanations
- Unable to skip steps or accelerate, or quit a step
Requested features
11 requests- 1.5x or 1.2x speed playback option
- Child-friendly versions with mythology/legends
- Better map feature for Knossos
- More architectural information
- Option to skip steps or accelerate
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- Real person narration instead of AI
- Improved English translation/narration
- Clearer directions and site numbering
- Ability to download content without issues
- More informative content
- Option to choose language easily
In-app purchases
GuruWalk
No in-app purchases
Key tours
- Exploring Plaka$2.99
- Heraklion$2.99
- Rhodes Revealed$2.99
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- Nafplion$2.99
- Ancient Agora & the Temple of$3.99
- Delphi Archaeological Museum$5.99
- Meteora$6.99
- National Archaeological Museum$6.99
- Palace of Knossos$6.99
- Acropolis of Lindos$6.99
- ¡Top museo del mundo!$6.99
- Ancient Olympia$6.99
- Cape Sounion & Poseidon$6.99
- Hydra$6.99
- Acropolis Museum$7.99
- Akropolis Von Athen Deutsch$7.99
- Epidaurus: The Land of Healing$7.99
- Mycenae$7.99
- Akrotiri of Santorini$7.99
- Monastiraki-Kerameikos$8.99
- Delphi: The Navel of the Earth$9.99
- Acropolis of Athens& Parthenon$11.99
- Recorrido de la Acrópolis$11.99
