Self Guide vs Tourlane
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Self Guide
This travel assistance app provides instant access to your customized itinerary, including attractions, shopping, and dining. Enhance your trip with augmented reality features and discover new points of interest. The app uses geolocation to offer optimal routes and navigation.
- Customized itinerary details
- Destination information (attractions, shopping, restaurants)
- Augmented reality features
- Discover additional points of interest
- Geolocation-based mapping and routing
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Self Guide is a travel assistance app, pre-loaded with your customized itinerary details. Have destination information right at your fingertips: attractions, shopping, restaurants and much more. Enhance your experience with augmented reality and discover additional points of interest to explore – using geolocation, Self Guide’s map will give you the best route.
Tourlane
Plan and manage your entire trip from start to finish. Create custom itineraries, store travel documents, make packing lists, and get destination recommendations. Share trip details and photos with your travel group, even offline.
- Customizable itineraries
- Travel document storage
- Packing list creation
- Destination recommendations
- Offline access
- Group trip sharing
- Navigation directions
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Tourlane is the ultimate travel app that helps you manage your entire trip from start to finish. With Tourlane, you can easily create and customise your itinerary, store all your travel documents, make packing lists, take notes, and receive recommendations for your destination in one place and free of charge. What's more, the Tourlane app makes travelling effortless. All members of your travel group can access the itinerary and other important travel details, and you can even share photos to capture all of your amazing moments together. The Tourlane app turns tailor-made travels into one seamless experience organising all your travel information and making it accessible from your phone – even offline. The app provides navigation directions for each stop on your trip, making orientation easy and quick Don't miss out on the ultimate travel experience – download Tourlane today and start planning your unique vacation easily!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Self Guide at 4.9 against Tourlane's 4.5. Tourlane's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 92%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Self Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 34 and 57 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of Self Guide's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tourlane's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Self Guide ships an update every 3 months, Tourlane every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Self Guide | Tourlane |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (34 ratings) — better | 4.5 (57 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 | 57 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Exotissimo | Tourlane GmbH |
Customer experience
Self Guide
Tourlane
In-app purchases
Self Guide
No in-app purchases
Tourlane
No in-app purchases
