Comparison

Self Guide vs Strong Travel Services

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Customized itinerary details
  • Destination information (attractions, shopping, restaurants)
  • Augmented reality features
  • Discover additional points of interest
  • Geolocation-based mapping and routing
Features
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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.

About

Strong Travel Services

This travel planning app allows travel professionals to collaborate with clients on itineraries. It consolidates all travel details into a single, dynamic interface accessible on mobile devices, with offline access and map integration.

Highlights
  • Real-time collaborative itinerary building
  • Consolidated paperless travel interface
  • Offline access to travel details
  • Integration with Apple Maps
  • Archive past itineraries for inspiration
Features
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Strong Travel Services App is a revolutionary scheduling tool that lets travel professionals collaborate, consolidate, and innovate travel plans with their clients. Travel is global, so Strong Travel Services is mobile. Travelers may use this app for free, however they must sign up with a travel agency that uses this system to enjoy the app. Notable Strong Travel Services features: - Travel details are displayed on a shared screen as plans come together in real time, empowering travelers to help fill in the gaps in their schedules with their own ideas. - Consolidates every detail into one dynamic, paperless interface that travelers can take with them wherever they go. From air to theater tickets, hotel to dining reservations, the entire itinerary is at your clients' fingertips. - Archives old travel itineraries to provide inspiration for the future. - Integrates Apple Maps so travelers always know how to get to their next stop. - Allows for offline access, so travelers always have the important travel information they need. Travel is exciting, and planning it should be too. Make conversations more productive, and eliminate last-minute stress with the Strong Travel Services App. Send any feedback or feature requests to webmaster@axustravelapp.com.

Screenshots

Self Guide4 screens
Strong Travel Services4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Self Guide at 34 against Strong Travel Services's 4. Strong Travel Services's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 92%) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Self Guide against 5.0 for Strong Travel Services. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Self Guide has 34 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Self Guide's written reviews are positive against 100% of Strong Travel Services's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Self Guide ships an update every 3 months, Strong Travel Services every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Self Guide versus Strong Travel Services: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelf GuideStrong Travel Services
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (34 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings34 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB47 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperExotissimoAXUS Travel LLC

Customer experience

Self Guide

All ratings34 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

Strong Travel Services

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Self Guide

No in-app purchases

None

Strong Travel Services

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Self Guide free?
Self Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Strong Travel Services free?
Strong Travel Services is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Self Guide or Strong Travel Services?
Strong Travel Services is rated higher. Self Guide averages 4.9 out of 5 from 34 ratings, while Strong Travel Services averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Self Guide or Strong Travel Services have ads?
Neither Self Guide nor Strong Travel Services shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Self Guide or Strong Travel Services?
Self Guide ships an update every 3 months, and Strong Travel Services every 2 months. Most recently, Self Guide was updated on October 23, 2026 and Strong Travel Services on October 24, 2026.

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