POPGuide

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About this app

About this app
POPGuide is your self-guide tour in your pocket!

POPGuide is an interactive destination, mapping, and audio guide app that enables self-guided sightseeing experiences in over 150 cities worldwide — fully available offline.
Discover hundreds of points of interest and curated itineraries in each city, and explore at your own pace with integrated, easy-to-use navigation and immersive audio storytelling.


✈️ Key Features
Offline geolocation and GPS navigation along recommended walking, bus, tram, and river routes
Distance and estimated travel time (walking and driving)
Audio commentary narrated by native actors portraying famous historical figures
Engaging storytelling combining history, cultural insights, and unique trivia (each audio lasts up to 3 minutes)
Available in 6 languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Chinese.


🏝️ Seamless Download & Background Audio Functionality
POPGuide uses foreground services to ensure uninterrupted audio playback, GPS tracking, and content downloads — even when the app is in the background, your screen is off, or your device is locked.
This allows continuous navigation, real-time location guidance, and seamless offline access while you explore.


🚀 Battery Usage Notice
POPGuide uses GPS location services to determine your position and provide navigation to selected points of interest. Because location tracking may continue while the app runs in the background, it can increase battery consumption. Users can disable device location services when the app is not in use to reduce battery usage.


Have feedback or suggestions? We’d love to hear from you!
Email us at [e-mail] or reach out through the Contact Us form on our website. Your input helps us make POPGuide even better.

Terms and Conditions: https://popguide.herokuapp.com/terms_conditions/1400
Privacy Policy: https://popguide.herokuapp.com/privacy_policy/1400

Ratings and reviews

This app will not let you download more than one tour at once. It also crashed my Bluetooth, crashed itself, forced me to uninstall and reinstall it, continued to crash my Bluetooth even though I had switched to headphone jacks, and somehow CHANGED MY APP ICON SHAPE despite having nothing to do with that. Twice. The tours themselves have good information and the fact that you can download them is a plus. That being said, I can't recommend this to anyone who wants something functional.

used before and it was OK. this time the app "flickers" which is only an issue if you're reading. content wise it's quite good.

Wifey bought a tour that uses this app to use for Uffizi Gallery in Italy. Terrible interface, and often crushed while using it. In this AI age it is hard to understand why an app terrible is still on the market. Stay away.