Rick Steves Audio Europe ™

Rick Steves' Europe, Inc.

About this app

This app organizes the vast and varied library of Rick Steves’ audio content into geographic-specific playlists so that travelers can enjoy ready access to the information that relates specifically to their travel plans. Many tracks provide general cultural and sightseeing information gleaned from his public radio program, Travel with Rick Steves. Other tracks are self-guided tours to great sights and historic walks. While we travel there’s lots of down time, and this application can both entertain and teach. Rick Steves Audio Europe will hopefully make your European travels more meaningful and more fun.

Features:

• The app downloads and stores audio files on your device. No Wi-Fi or cellphone connection is required to listen. (You will need a connection if you choose to add audio tracks later.)
• Handy maps (PDF) that complement the self-guided audio tours can be viewed on your device.
• The audio content originates from Rick Steves guidebooks and the Travel with Rick Steves public radio program. Self-guided tours are excerpted from Rick Steves country and city guidebooks.
• Rick Steves Audio Europe is a work in progress. New audio tracks will be added and existing tracks updated as necessary.

Ratings and reviews

This app is great and but could use a little TLC. My wife and I use it to get a toe hold in whatever country we are visiting but it is showing its age - especially the Android version. For example, it does not play well with bluetooth controls, it will often need to be force closed when not in use, and bluetooth audio can crackle and skip, etc. Still a great service that pretty much unrivaled.

The content is good, I really like the walking tours while traveling. However, the navigation and especially controls do not work well on Android. I try to install the app just before starting any walking tour and uninstall it after. The foreground notification cannot be dismissed and is very bothersome. I wish it was a native app.

We visited Venice, Florence, and Rome. I am sure we would have figured things out on our own, but Rick saved us a ton of time! I highly recommend getting his books for wherever you plan to visit. These guides are a perfect supplement to those books. The only negative I have (not worth docking a star) was for the Uffizi Gallery. Several rooms have been remodeled, so the audio guide will get you lost. It would help if the chapters started with the room number or gallery you are supposed to be in.

What's new

Remove SD card permissions.
Add a privacy policy.