Comparison

KrugerGuide vs Rangerly

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

Head to head
About

KrugerGuide

Navigate Kruger National Park with this comprehensive offline guide. Discover detailed maps, road status, camp information, and species profiles to enhance your wildlife adventure. Plan routes, track your trip, and access essential park information without needing a data connection.

Highlights
  • Offline searchable map with routing
  • Road and camp status reports
  • Over 400 searchable species profiles
  • Low-data sightings board
  • Trip and lifetime stats tracking
  • Click-to-call park services
  • Offline turn-by-turn routes
Features
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The only all-in-one Guide to Kruger National Park is packed with unique features and content to help you make the most of your time in the park. Main features: - High-resolution, searchable offline map with routing from your live location. - Offline routing - Road status reports - Camp statusses - Free Kruger travel guide section with all the need-to-know information. - All roads are rated and enriched with recent sightings. - Over 150 places marked and photographed. - Background data backup. - Over 400 species profiles that are searchable and filterable to help you identify each - Low-data sightings board with 14-day history to help you find hotspots - Over 2000 stunning images of species and places in the park - Keep track of your trip and lifetime stats with ease Convenient, easy to use, and always accessible: - Download, install and explore. No additional downloads, add-ons, or connectivity is required for main functionality - Our convenient countdown widget on the home screen means you always know when the gates are opening or closing. - Phone numbers for camps, gates, and other park services are all click-to-call. - Mapped routes and distances between gates and camps. - Personalise your trip and profile with an image of your choice. A stunning Free travel guide that covers all you need to know: - The Park: Park history, ecology, climate, conservation. - Planning: When to visit, Where to stay, How to book, How to get to the park, and packing tips. - Your trip: How to be your own guide, What to do, Visiting Kruger with Kids and food available in the park. - Safety: Rules, Malaria, Safety Tips and what to do in emergencies. - Phone numbers and connectivity. - Gate times. Maps so you always know where you are: - No more worries about getting lost. Our park map works entirely offline and shows you where you are. - The map is searchable and filterable, showing you where you are and what’s nearby. - Filter our best-in-class park map based on the types of points of interest or their amenities - Over 300 places mapped and described. - Get to know more about your next destination by tapping the place. All park roads rated: - We’ve described and rated all roads to ensure you can easily plan your routes. - All the park roads have been linked to their points of interest so you can quickly get to know the area. - Want a taster of what you could see on the roads? We’ve driven them all and added photos from our adventures to each road. Easy-to-follow offline routes: - To help you decide where to drive next, we’ve included 70+ turn-by-turn, reversible routes with interactive maps. - Reverse any route, its map and its step with the press of a button. - Easily bookmark your current route to display it on the main map. Get to know the animals: - Our lists are currently searchable in English, Afrikaans, Dutch, French, German and Spanish. - Over 400 species with photos, descriptions, and more. - Check off animals you’ve spotted using a quick add option, or leave yourself a note about the sighting. Birding for everyone: - Our tailored list of 300 beginner and intermediate birds is filterable based on colours and key features to make it fun and easy. - Need more help identifying a tricky bird? Use the sighting heatmap to check if you’re in an area where the bird is likely to be. Track your stats: Do you like to track your stats? We’ve got you covered with info on your trips, sightings, check-ins, camps visited, roads driven, and more.  - The app tracks these per trip and over your lifetime of visits to the park. - We backup your data in the cloud so you never have to worry about losing your sightings or other stats. - You can now mark species, places or roads as your favourites Sightings board: - If you have some coverage, check out the community sightings board. - This feature will also enrich the routes in your area with sightings of the day. - Sightings from the last 14 days enrich all roads and places.

About

Rangerly

Features
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Rangerly is an audio guide for self-drive safaris. A warm, knowledgeable ranger's voice riding along in your passenger seat, telling you stories about the wildlife and landscape you're actually looking at. HOW IT WORKS Immersive audio stories, told by a ranger who knows the bush. It works fully offline, so download before you go, no signal needed in the park. Listen when you want, pause when you want. STARTING IN KRUGER: ELEPHANTS FIRST This is an early version. We're starting with a set of elephant stories in Kruger National Park, and building out from there, with more animals and more parks on the way. If you're heading out on a self-drive safari, download Rangerly before you go and take a ranger along for the ride.

Screenshots

KrugerGuide4 screens
Rangerly3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rangerly at none against KrugerGuide's 4. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. KrugerGuide sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Rangerly asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
KrugerGuide versus Rangerly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKrugerGuideRangerly
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size608 MB68 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperKruger Guide (Pty) LtdRangerly

In-app purchases

4 purchases

KrugerGuide

Subscriptions3
  • Annual full access$9.991 Year
  • Annual full access3 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Annual full access$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Access - Single Payment$29.99
None

Rangerly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is KrugerGuide free?
KrugerGuide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rangerly free?
Rangerly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do KrugerGuide or Rangerly have ads?
Neither KrugerGuide nor Rangerly shows ads.

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