Official Freedom Trail® App

The information is good … BUT … Even though I had downloaded the app and the trail/audio, at the end of each stop, the app would say “loading…” with a blank screen. Sometimes it resumed and sometimes I had to kill it and restart. This was very frustrating. It completely drained my battery before the end of the tour.

I don’t usually write reviews, but considering the negativity, thought it was worthwhile. I didn’t try the audio feature, but the map was brilliant with nice tidbits about each stop. Well worth the $10 as opposed to an overpriced tour guide you can’t hear. And 40 stops compared to 10 or so with a guide. Stop by Night Shift brewing on the way to Bunker Hill! A pleasant place to rehydrate 😀

i agree with other reviewers. i flew to boston expressly to walk this trail using the app it’s completely counter intuitive. the UX is terrible. and really?? a litany of edward kennedy quotes? the history of rose kennedy. wow. don’t waste your trip. this app is worthless.

The app has a lot of good content and quotes from different people, etc. But - At many sites the audio would stop abruptly at the same spot no matter how many times I tried to play it - the transitions between stops can be a bit glitchy and hard to follow. You had to manually go back and play different segments

I sent a message to The Freedom Trail App support yesterday at 11:06a, because Stop 27 was not listed on the map. By 1:54p I received a response from Freedom Trail. The message said the technician was going to make an adjustment. Later in the afternoon, I noticed the glitch was fixed. The app will be great to have when I’m in Boston this summer!

The information here is great, but the app’s functionality still has a ways to go. The GPS sometimes works, and sometimes doesn’t. It’s very hard to go back-and-forth between the information and the map. Every time you go back to the map, it zooms all the way out, so you have to fiddle with it to see where you are. On a cold day this made it really difficult to navigate. Because the GPS triggering didn’t always work, I ended up reading the information more than I listened to it.