Locatify SmartGuide vs Kringum Iceland
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Locatify SmartGuide
Experience cities and museums with interactive audio tours that use GPS to trigger narrations, pictures, and quizzes. Explore points of interest with an interactive map, and enjoy content offline for planning or virtual exploration.
- Location-based audio guides
- Interactive map with GPS
- Multimedia content (audio, pictures)
- Offline content download
- Quiz game elements
- Multilingual support
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The Locatify SmartGuide app is like having your own personal tour guide in your pocket! The app features location-based audio guides which have been professionally created with voice actors and multimedia content. The guides are perfect for city walking tours, cycling routes, self-driving tours or museum guides. The tours are presented in a unique way with audio narrations, pictures, quiz game elements and an interactive map which shows your location and triggers audio as you approach nearby points of interest. Audio Tour Guide Highlights: - On location guided tours with storyteller narrations (enabled with GPS or iBeacons) - Local points of interest and pictures - Enjoy in your own language with Multilingual content - Offline content - no internet connection required (once the otu has been downloaded) - Interactive map with GPS and navigation - Enjoy from home as a trip planning tool or as a virtual tour guide - Both free and paid tours available Do you want to create your own audio guides or treasure hunt games? Try it out for free at locatify.com or download the Locatify TurfHunt app to play treasure hunt games. Please note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life.
Kringum Iceland
Discover thousands of stories, events, and interesting sites across Iceland. This popular travel app highlights nearby points of interest and shares tales of nature, culture, and folklore.
- Thousands of stories and sites
- Discover nearby points of interest
- Information on nature and culture
- Includes folklore and poems
- Popular Icelandic travel app
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Wherever you go in Iceland, Kringum tells you the stories right around you. Free and GPS-guided, Kringum reveals over 60,000 stories, historic sites, natural wonders and points of interest across the country — with audio narration as you travel. • Discover what happened where you're standing — sagas, folklore, history and culture • Listen to stories read aloud, automatically hands-free on the road • Explore nearby places on a live map, or browse the list around you • Nature, place names, poems, people and events from every corner of Iceland Perfect for road trips, the Ring Road, and anyone curious about the land beneath their feet. Kringum is the most popular travel app in Iceland.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Kringum Iceland at free against Locatify SmartGuide's free with in-app purchases. Kringum Iceland also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Locatify SmartGuide sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Kringum Iceland sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Locatify SmartGuide against 4.6 for Kringum Iceland. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 22 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Locatify SmartGuide ships an update every 4 months, Kringum Iceland every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Locatify SmartGuide | Kringum Iceland |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (27 ratings) — better | 4.6 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Locatify | Karl Thoroddsen |
Customer experience
Locatify SmartGuide
Kringum Iceland
In-app purchases
Locatify SmartGuide
- Hrafnkelsdalur valley$1.99
- Jokuldalur$1.99
- Reykjavik Central$2.99
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- Tinganes, Tórshavn$2.99
- Vatnajökull National Park$2.99
- Grand Fljótsdalur Circle$2.99
- Reykjavik Art Explored$4.99
- Trip Around Reykjanes$4.99
- The Source of the Nile$4.99
- The Golden Circle$6.99
Kringum Iceland
- Explorer Access$9.99
Questions
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