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

the content is great, 10/10, but the app freezes or the audio stops if you try to do too much else on your phone (like taking pictures, which you tend to do a lot of during these tours). the audio playback can only be controlled in the app, there's no way to use headphone controls or even the playback notification banner.

Lots of great free tours that really enhance the experience, but the app is really poorly designed. It doesn't behave like a normal podcast app, and often the app dies and the audio stops if you switch apps (e.g. to take a picture of something Rick is talking about). It also lacks a lot of basic controls (controlling speed, skipping ahead, etc). The iPhone app has all these features, and if Android had parity this would be 5 stars

Helped me a lot on my quick visit to London. He skips intricate details and gives the essentials. Just the right level humor without distraction. He should offer paid packages tailored to user's needs. Map is not perfect and you need to swap between a map application. GPS positioning and more detailed direction could be added. 20s rewind button let's you go back when you miss something they said but unfortunately there is no 20s forward button. Audio download does not work in the background.

What’s new

Increases the minimum supported Android version to 14, in accordance with Play Store requirements.