Official Freedom Trail® App

Freedom Trail Foundation, Inc.

About this app

Please note - ***This app is only available in English at this time.

Experience more than 250 years of history with the official Freedom Trail® app! Boston’s revolutionary past comes to life with this innovative app, including a self-guided audio tour, interactive map, pictures, and more.

The iconic 2.5-mile Freedom Trail connects 16 of America’s most significant historical landmarks, including museums, churches, meeting houses, burying grounds, parks, a ship, and historic markers that tell the story of the American Revolution and beyond.

Special Features of this App:
- Over 1.5 hours of audio content tells the stories of the Freedom Trail, including music and guest interviews with historians, academics, authors, and others.
- The audio for each stop plays automatically thanks to GPS mapping.
- An interactive map helps you find your next stop on the Freedom Trail with ease.
- Photos and illustrations help direct your eyes and place you within the stories covered.

This app is an official product of The Freedom Trail® Foundation.

Established in 1964, the Freedom Trail Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that markets, promotes, and helps to preserve the Freedom Trail through visitor services and programs, educational programs, and marketing and public relations efforts. The Foundation’s Preservation Fund helps support preservation, rehabilitation, and capital projects for official Freedom Trail historic sites; these projects help avoid, minimize, or mitigate adverse effects of the elements and manmade wear and tear of Boston’s precious 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century sites.

For more information about the Freedom Trail, please visit TheFreedomTrail.org

Ratings and reviews

A wonderful way to experience the freedom trail. The commentary is a great balance of each sites historical context and it's modern day experience. You can go at your own pace and the in app map helps get you to spots within each location with more in depth details. Would recommend starting with a fully charged battery as I used up a good chunk during our walk.

Loved the tour, hated the app. Nearly every time if we stayed longer than 15 minutes at a site, the app stalled and wouldn't advance to the next stop. I had to close out of the app and reopen it, then find the stop we were at and play. I had downloaded the tour prior to setting off, but I don't know what good that did. Also would be great to have hours of operation available on the app. Disappointing end to the tour to find out the ships are closed on the days we were in town.

Worked pretty well after I realized it would recognize where we were and automatically start playing the tour audio for that stop. I just had to keep the app active. My husband and I shared a pair of wireless ear buds.