Tour Blend vs RTS Access Ride Request
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tour Blend
Discover Rochester through self-guided audio tours. Explore historic sites, local cuisine, and street art with location-triggered stories, photos, and videos. Enjoy ad-free and fee-free exploration of the Genesee River, Erie Canal, and downtown areas.
- Audio-guided walking, biking, and boating tours
- Location-triggered self-guided audios
- Historic photos and drone videos
- Links to online resources
- Over 25 tours available
- Explore Genesee River and Erie Canal
- Discover street art and local cuisine
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Explore the best of Rochester with our free audio-guided walking, biking, and boating tours. With no ads and no fees, the Tour Blend app brings locations to life using location-triggered, self-guided audios, historic photos, drone videos, and links to on-line resources. Select one of more than 25 tours, follow the map, and enjoy a short story at each location along the tour. You walk, we talk as the Tour Blend app guides you to hundreds of special locations along the Genesee River, the Erie Canal, and downtown Rochester. Enjoy a guided tour of Rochester’s High Falls, Rochester’s Public Market, or on-board the Riverie boat cruise, or explore community-based efforts to address climate change and connect diverse neighborhoods. You can even use Tour Blend to find the best street art, craft beverages, and “Rochester plates”, the local extreme cuisine.
RTS Access Ride Request
Book and view paratransit trips for Monroe County, NY. Registration and approval are required before booking. Visit myRTS.com/Access for more information.
- Book paratransit trips
- View scheduled trips
- Monroe County, NY service
- Requires registration and approval
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RTS Access Ride Request helps you book and view paratransit trips for Monroe County, NY. RTS Access registration and approval is required prior to booking any trips. Visit myRTS.com/Access for details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tour Blend at 60% against RTS Access Ride Request's 0%. Tour Blend also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.2) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 25 months). RTS Access Ride Request's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). 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.
Tour Blend holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Tour Blend's written reviews are positive against 0% of RTS Access Ride Request's.
Tour Blend ships an update every 3 months, RTS Access Ride Request every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tour Blend | RTS Access Ride Request |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (8 ratings) — better | 3.2 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | aKAP Innovation, LLC | RGRTA |
Customer experience
Tour Blend
RTS Access Ride Request
In-app purchases
Tour Blend
No in-app purchases
RTS Access Ride Request
No in-app purchases
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