4.39 out of 5
57 ratings in United States
Plays 2 minutes of audio with the “Free Trial”, despite being billed as a free app. And then will not actually let you PAY to get past the paywall. AVOID unless you want to waste your time and end up swimming up stream past huge tour groups.
The app was constantly disconnected from my location so I had to keep referencing google maps to see where I was. It’s missing info on dozens of the locations including ones that would simply be helpful in directing yourself. The actual audio recordings are lacking in comparison to others I’ve used in that the narration is too fast to follow or gives little direction as to which direction the item being described is in. I saw that others may have found the app useful in pre-planning their visit but on the actual site I found it to be a frustrating waste of $8.
Terrible app functionality. narrative was good but hard to follow while at places of interest. Screen images misleading. There are NO pictures or visual aids. On your own to guess what they are talking about. BIGGEST ISSUE: GPS is absolutely terrible. Very frustrating and basically ruined our experience. Nav constantly locks up and doesn’t move. U cannot pin anything and the descriptions of the sites are all in English BUT the actual sites are all in Italian. So guessing all the time about if u r at the right place. Doesn’t tell you where entrance to diff sites are so u end up wandering around and backtracking ALOT to get to the right place to enter any specific site. Don’t waste your money. Get a map at entrance and use official app. Tied to Pompeii site. U will be richer and happier.
I had hoped that since many of the reviews complaining about the lousy GPS were old that perhaps it had been resolved. No luck. Yes, restarting the app will re-pin your GPS position, but that's annoying. Otherwise it is a helpful app to have while wandering the ruins.
Outstanding information presented directly. Able to switch apps (like the camera) and still able to listen to the narration. I will probably listen to the narration for all the sites that I did not get to see. One star off though for poor geolocation. The app would show where we were when we started the app, but would not track through the site unless we completely closed out of the app and restarted it.
This app should be getting a high rating, but the buggy GPS functionality is incredibly aggravating. Out of the 30 or so sites we visited within Pompeii, only twice did the GPS keep working as we starts walking to the next location. Every other time the arrow would freeze in your last location, requiring you force-quit and restart the app in order to get your location working again. It also stopped working any time you’d either listen to an audio segment or switch over to another app (like taking a photo, which I of course wanted to do repeatedly). After force-quitting and restarting the app countless times I was ready to throw the app out the window. Particularly because I paid for their premium access. I liked the audio content, but it was such a pain to use navigationally that I just can’t recommend the app until they’ve fixed this major issue.
Worked great offline on my trip. I used it as a supplement to my in-person guide and for wandering by myself after. Sometimes the GPS will get stuck but you can fix it by restarting the app. One suggestion would be to add the Italian place names in parentheses so it’s easier to match them to the signage.
Went to Pompeii and was frustrated with the free app. We made it all the way to Pompeii and regretted not getting a guide, so I thought this app would be better. You buy it for $4 and the app is completely useless unless you buy a guide once inside the app. Then the guide might be useful if it detected where you were with the gps. But it gets stuck on one location and to find where you are at you have to search and match up the Italian names in Pompeii to the English names in the app. So frustrated that I was spending more time looking on my screen messing with this app instead of exploring with my own eyes what was around me. I just gave up on it. Waste of money.
Fantastic, we explored Pompeii with only this app
Cheaper than the crazy expensive guided tours you can find on the spot, which by the way only cover a tiny part of the site.
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