GuidiGO vs Carpool Max
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GuidiGO
Discover the world with downloadable guided tours and interactive treasure hunts. Explore historical sites, museums, and natural wonders at your own pace with rich multimedia content and offline GPS tracking. Perfect for solo travelers and families looking for an engaging way to experience new destinations.
- Downloadable guided tours
- Interactive treasure hunts
- Offline GPS tracking
- Rich multimedia content
- Cultural institution content
- Augmented reality features
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GuidiGO is your personal tour guide to the world. GuidiGO allows you to experience your destination like never before. Download guided tours and treasure hunts created by cultural institutions, local experts, and passionate storytellers around the world. All the tours and games are free! Choose a tour based on your interests (History, Art, Nature… ) and let yourself be led effortlessly along the way. Set your own pace as you explore an original story. - Intuitive browsing Search for sites, museums, or places you want to visit, or find recommended tours near you using your GPS location. - Game tours Some tours can turn into fun Treasure Hunts where your kids can solve challenges, answer quizzes, use characters in augmented reality, and more. - Rich multimedia content The tours contain rich, detailed information together with audio narration, synchronized photos and videos, giving you a unique “behind the scenes” view of the place you’re visiting. - Made for traveling No need to worry about expensive roaming charges. Downloaded tours work without an Internet connection. You can always see where you are with integrated GPS tracking on your offline map. - All the information you need With each tour, you have access to an extensive amount of additional information, such as opening hours, transport schedules, local events, Internet links, videos, user reviews, and much more. Editor note : continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Carpool Max
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Carpool Max keeps a school carpool in one place: who is driving, who is riding, and when to be outside. PLAN THE WEEK ONCE • Who drives each morning and each afternoon, who is riding, and where each family is picked up. • Change a run and everyone sees it — no group chat to scroll back through. ON THE DAY • Riders are told when to head out, so nobody waits at the curb. • While a run is on the road the driver can share where the car is, and the families waiting watch it come. SHARED OUT FAIRLY • Every ride is counted, so taking a turn is easy to keep even between families. • No spreadsheet, and nobody keeping score in their head. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • A carpool is private to the people holding its invitation link. • Location is shared only while a driver chooses to share it, and ends with the run. • Nobody is tracked when a run is not happening. JOINING Joining takes an invitation link from your group — open it on your phone and tap your name. No password, nothing to fill in. Translated into 40 languages.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Carpool Max at none against GuidiGO's 10. Carpool Max also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). GuidiGO's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.0). 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. GuidiGO sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Carpool Max asks for nothing beyond the download.
GuidiGO ships an update every 4 months, Carpool Max weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GuidiGO | Carpool Max |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (16 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 52.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | STQRY Limited | RaveLab, Inc. |
In-app purchases
GuidiGO
- Hagia Sophia Guided Tour by cultrex$1.99
- Must Sees of Montmartre$2.99
- A Bohemian Walk in Montmartre$2.99
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- Drive the magic that is San Francisco$2.99
- The Hill of Tara: 'all-you-need' premium tour$3.99
- Tokyo Realtime: Akihabara$3.99
- What's Dublin made of? Streets, stories & fossils!$3.99
- - SKIBBEREEN - Famine Story Walking Trail App$3.99
- Buenos Aires - Recoleta Walking Tour$4.99
- Old Town, Riddarholmen and Södermalm islands$4.99
Carpool Max
No in-app purchases









