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GPSmyCity: Walks in 1K+ Cities App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Wouldn’t recommendPretty nasty app which is hard to use and still shows adverts even after paying a subscription. The map is hard to use and we didn’t get much use out of the app in general. Would try another app.Version: 4.7.3
✓ On my hardware it doesnWell, my iPhone 3G is quite old, I understand that. But it doesn't load even on my iPad which is way more powerful..Version: 2.5.1
✓ Doesn’t workPaid for a walking tour of St Denis. Downloaded it, I can see the pins but no map behind. This must be a frequent issue because there’s a notice saying to delete the app and redownload it if the map doesn’t appear. Did that, still no map. Useless..Version: 4.5.7
✓ Buyer BewareUsed this app in Glasgow Scotland, Florence Italy where it worked as it should. In Rome downloaded a walking tour which cost me $6.99 and it was taking us to places that were blocked by fencing and would cost money to get in. Tried to find a way to contact the company within the app and could not do this. Will not pay for a tour again..Version: 4.4.1
✓ Don't bother with this appTerrible interface, downloading tours doesn't work. Waste of time..Version: 1.4
✓ Waste of time Don’t downloadNothing is more frustrating than going through the time to download and setup only to be forced to upgrade- avoid like the plague!.Version: 4.5
✓ Doesn’t workTried to upgrade and paid for the annual subscription fee. I’m supposed to be on my free trial right now but I still can’t access any of the maps. It keeps telling me to upgrade to view and then when I click on it to upgrade again it says I’m already subscribed. I don’t even care about the free trial, I just want to use it. So ridiculous.Version: 4.6.7
✓ Looked promising but useless in the end...Bought the single city version for use on a day trip to Oxford. Looked promising and managed to make it round a few landmarks, before the app stuck on a “refreshing your subs...” screen. Waiting didn’t work; closing & restarting didn’t work; restarting the phone didn’t work; deleting and reloading the app didn’t work. Waste of time and money in the end. Shame..Version: 4.6
✓ Flaky on iOS 12 and commentary is out of datePaid for and downloaded the Athens map. Tried to use one of the walks offline but the app kept freezing and I had to kill it and restart, or put it back online sometimes unfroze it. Some of the commentary was also out of date. It referred to refurbishments being planned to complete in 2015! It also doesn’t tell you which sights are charged for. Used to live this app. If the offline freezing is fixed I may come back but might as well use Wikipedia and google maps for free right now..Version: 4.4.2
✓ Not worth it.Great idea with a less-than-stellar execution. Use the free version to get an idea of waypoints to plan exploration in a new place, but probably skip the subscription. I have attempted to subscribe to this app twice. In the most recent attempt, it seemed as though my subscription wasn’t even recognized within the app - I still received in-app ads and could not access navigation. Maybe not a total loss there since navigation within the app is garbage anyway. It’s a pain and quite a few extra steps, but using Google Maps to navigate to the landmarks is way more user-friendly, reliable, and full-featured than trying to rely on the in-app option. The information contained within the guides is also minimal at best. Overall just really “meh” and leaves you wondering what exactly you’re getting for $18..Version: 4.7.9
✓ Don't get connedBe careful, I paid $5.99 to download the full offline version of the Santorini map. It is a complete rip off. Don't get caught wasting your money on the upgraded maps..Version: 1.2
✓ Trouble with itI bought a subsciption which doesnt work and written twice to the developers. I like the trial version but havent got full access with the subscription and missed out using it properly on my trip.Version: 4.7.6
✓ Terrible cancel before the free trial endsI’m very unhappy with this app and sadly missed the 3 day free trial and have now been forced to pay for the full year. The information is literally a paragraph for major historical sites and the “walking tour” which is the whole premise of the app didn’t work nor could it identity my location. I would have been better off with a lonely planet and that would have given me more information..Version: 4.4.2
✓ Not worth the price plus super annoying to use= avoidYou should get what you pay for - and what is promised. In this case, you pay nothing - you get nothing. You pay $6 for a single little walking tour route, and get very little more than with Google Maps (which you can pre-download to avoid roaming fees). Worse, the app ‘restarts’ every time you switch back from another app, so you lose your place in the guide. What’s worse than charging too much? Making the experience super annoying. I have deleted the app to save myself from further suffering. Hope this review saves you..Version: 4.4.2
✓ Rubbish"The lite version has the only feature that makes this app worth downloading disabled, but if you let us bilk you for money *per location* you can actually get functionality out of this".Version: 4.6.7
✓ Will not loadHave tried installing 3 times both on iPhone and through iTunes and still cannot get it to load. I'm glad this was free to try otherwise a waste..Version: 1.6
✓ WorthlessI purchased option 3 of the subscription choices in order to access the “walk” feature, but it was useless. The map didn’t show all the places mentioned in the article, as it said it would, only the one place I clicked on from the article. I was unable to set a starting place, save a place or add destinations. The app also said that I could tap a green pin for more information, but when I did this, nothing. No information about the place, or even the name. The map showed only one pin at a time when I linked a place from the article. If I returned to the article and clicked on another place, I could see that pin, but again, only that pin. Worthless..Version: 4.6.7
✓ Little more than a list of advertisersQuite disappointing. Maps don't zoom deep Map search doesn't find listed sites Sites in walk aren't in logical order Misses key sites Sorry. Will be deleted.Version: 2.0
✓ Haunted walk tourTitle is misleading as this is NOT a haunted walk tour. Great idea as my group had physical limitations to the guided tour and this was the perfect solution. Unfortunately none of the information gave adequate references to ghostly encounters as the title would suggest. Great app, great idea but wrong title for the Haunted tour!!!.Version: 4.6.4
✓ Awful next to uselessClunky. Satnav directions wholly inaccurate Very important sites missing Information on Sites that are on appear to be cut down cut and paste from other web sites. This is my third attempt at different cities with no improvement..Version: 4.5.3
✓ Free versions not much useI tried the free versions of the guides accessible from this app to trial it before buying the upgrade version. I decided it was not worth the space on my phone. I tried one map from CityMaps2Go and found that much more useful so I upgraded to their paid version for a small fee which gave me access to heaps of really useful maps at no further cost..Version: 2.3
✓ Won’t recognise subscriptionI have now twice paid for a subscription level that gets me full capabilities - like routing. Seems to work until you close app. When you reopen it tells me I need to by a subscription to get full capabilities. And when I try to buy again, it says I am already subscribed! So I am stuck - can’t use full capabilities and can’t get subscription recognised. Rubbish..Version: 4.6.8
✓ Fix it or remove it!Downloaded (three times) and paid good money for two maps and constantly crashes. Can't use it. I am looking at other App options which actually work..Version: 3.3
✓ Rip offsPaid subscription but still asking me to pay. Thieves.Version: 4.4.1
✓ UselessBought the upgrade for Haifa. The app simply would not link or track. Waste of money. Malcolm, Toronto.Version: 4.5.7
✓ Endless cycle of frustrationThe App is fine in the rare instances that it works. Purchased for a trip to Greece in March. Would not let me download maps insisting I had to purchase the app. The Restore function didn’t work. Developer got it working and I was able to use it in Greece. Currently used in May in Portugal and the Czech Republic. Now can’t get out of the endless cycle of being told to Purchase in order to download cities in Austria. The app is probably fine if you have an unlimited phone and data plan and lots of free time while traveling. For me the effort just isn’t worth it anymore. Picked up a Rick Steves book for the area and it works every time I open it. This app has potential but the fact that it has a “Restore” option built in tells me this is a perpetual problem with this app. I would recommend passing on this one and trying one of the other apps or just get a book..Version: 4.5.3
✓ UselessThis app is useless because it crashes when you update the map. Pointless since you cannot use it..Version: 2.5
✓ Doesn’t workI downloaded it and it doesn’t work. I just get a pop up with a loading page saying “please wait refreshing your subs” that never goes away and I can’t access anything on the app.Version: 4.5.9
✓ Keeps forgetting everythingI leave the app for a few minutes, it wants to re-download the walk again because it's apparently out of date - repeatedly within the same hour. I upgrade to get the walks and maps and 2 days later it's forgotten I exist and has no record of me. Not worth the hassle until they sort things out.Version: 4.5.1
✓ Crashes upon opening every timeThis app crashes upon opening every time on my iPhone 4 so is completely useless to me, I can't get it past the loading screen at all.Version: 3.1.1
✓ No access to walksPaid for the city walks and can make a custom tour but cannot open any map to show walk directions. Have tried everything from downloading app to switching off phone. Still no joy, very frustrating.Version: 4.6.8
✓ Pathetic customer serviceApp hasn’t worked since I purchased the full version. Customer service was useless, telling me all the actions I had already taken to resolve issues. (Restart iPhone, delete and reinstall the app, etc.) Their solution then was to tell me it wasn’t their problem, it had to be the App Store. How frustrating!!!.Version: 4.7.4
✓ Horrible app with awful synthesized speech.I tried this app in Tallinn. Very inaccurate GPS and annoying synthesized speech. Don’t waste your money or time on this app..Version: 4.5.3
✓ Very buggy, cannot recommendI spent hours planning routes in multiple cities. This included doing some walks twice as would not download version created on web, deleting and re-installing app as it hung for hours on a back-up. Then I get to the cities and the App says I have no account and half the functionality does not work. Restore does not work, not paying a second time. Raised support request, let’s see if actioned before I leave first city! Great idea but terrible implementation..Version: 4.7.9
✓ I’m not feeling this siteI googled “walking tours” for historical downtown Honolulu and saw this app. I thought it would be something I would like. After downloading the site and hitting where in Honolulu I wanted to go I was transferred to another site to put my CC in. I thought I accidentally hit something so I tried again. I was take to a DIFFERENT website to put my CC in. O tried a 3rd time and was again, taken to a completely different site. I deleted the app. The whole thing felt too much like a scam. If anyone els has used this and gotten the same results it would be interesting to know, but I for one wasn't comfortable putting my CC in..Version: 4.7.6
✓ Previously 5 starI love this app and when you could purchase guides per city I would use it everywhere I travelled. Unfortunately since signing up for a yearly subscription, like several other reviewers, I’m stuck in a loop of error messages telling me I need a subscription and then that I already have one, and nothing is working. I’ve contacted support but was offered no solution so I’m left not being able to use one of my favourite apps and not even having access to guides I’ve previously bought. Very sad 😥.Version: 4.7.3
✓ DisappointingThis app needs to become an iPad app. Every time I change to it I have to reselect my location in the app. It doesn't seem to know abou multitasking at all. I would not pay for it until it does that. I think there is something deficient with the whole genre of iPad travel apps. I have done all my planning on PC at home. Now that I'm here I want detailed information on the monument or painting in front of me. None of the apps I've found provide that level of detail. Instead there is a one sentence description of a building that is 600 years old filled with art and objects, replete with history. I'm here doing a walking tour, I'd like to know what is in front of me. I'm not in a bus doing a quick whizz past each place to say I've seen it!.Version: 2.0
✓ Ridiculous upgrade prizes hiddenThis app seems wonderful and helpful, until you actually want to undertake a walking tour. Then it springs on you that, in our case, you need to spend $4.99 for JUST the one city you’re looking at, otherwise you don’t get the actual walking routes. So the app is essentially unusable unless you spend ridiculous amounts..Version: 4.5.3
✓ Good idea. Bad UX/UII tried using this app while walking around a university campus they have a map of. The premise is great. But walking around using this app on the fly wasn’t intuitive. I had to go back-and-forth between list view, remember the location number, go to the map and try to find corresponding number. Also, the thumbnail images in list view are tiny, so it’s difficult to determine which location is visually interesting to walk to. I don’t think it’s a bad app. I just don’t think it’s worth an annual subscription, until they improve UX/UI..Version: 4.7.3
✓ InutileJe suis présentement en Italie et j’ai essayé GPSMyCity à quelques reprises. D’abord à Livourne, où l’itinéraire proposé n’inclut pas la terrasse Mascagni, pourtant l’une des attractions majeures de la ville. L’application était incapable de me localiser et incapable de trouver le chemin lorsque j’ai voulu aller du point 1 au point 8 par exemple, sans suivre les points d’intérêt par ordre successif. L’application ne couvre que les villes d’une certaine importance. Pour San Gimignano, par exemple, il n’y a pas d’itinéraire proposé, seulement un blogue d’une utilisatrice. Ne perdez pas votre temps ni votre argent..Version: 4.5.1
✓ Don't waste your moneyUse your own map. Info at each location is just a couple of sentences from Wikipedia.Version: 4.0.2
✓ Great appLove this app very well done pity u need 2 upgrade 2 use gps tho.Version: 1.6
✓ Tours only available through purchaseDescription was misleading, the app requires purchase in order to access tours.Version: 4.5.3
✓ Free App has no mapFollowed link to app from a google search looking for a self guided walking tour of Turin. However having downloaded the app the map link just takes you to an upgrade page..Version: 4.5.3
✓ Very out of dateFor Wellington it lists the national gallery which closed when te papa opened years ago. Use with care..Version: 2.0
✓ Needs better gpsThe good is that it has more places and cities than most apps. The bad is you need to upgrade if you want to use the map feature which is important. The big negative is the gps feature sucks. It will place you up to 150 metres away making it useless. The last good is the picture and description but don’t bother with the audio. It’s really bad. First generation talking robot..Version: 4.5.3
✓ Stuck refreshing subscriptionsThe app is indefinitely stuck refreshing my (non-existant) subscriptions from the start. Interaction with the UI is not possible and the refresh doesn’t time out. It’s completely broken..Version: 4.5.9
✓ Wonderful idea. Solid info. Buggy execution.Let me stare up top I paid for the pro version. This app is overall a wonderful idea. The tours and walking maps are too notch. The information and depth of guides available is amazing. It has SO much potential and is a great value. That being said, a lot of the design choices are just not intuitive, user friendly, and in some cases are downright buggy. Example? There is no way to turn off audio when starting a route to a location. Each time you need to do if manually. Also, when downloading the map, you get a notice that the map is in your downloads… but you can’t exit out of that notice until you close and reopen the app. There are dozens of minor annoyances like that that would take too long to list. At the end of the day though, I have used this for about 6 cities, and have appreciated the content But I hope they do a redesign to make it less glitchy and more intuitive. This app has potential to become really big if they do..Version: 4.7.7
✓ $5.99 not necessaryThe walking maps are a helpful guide when traveling in a new city but the $5.99 I paid for the full guide wasnt justified - it really didn't offer me any particularly useful additional benefits that the free guides couldn't offer. To utilize the "additional" features you need to use global roaming anyway and that's what I wanted to avoid!.Version: 1.2
✓ Great idea, terrible appFirst I’ll specify this review is for the paid upgrade for the city tour. I thought this would be fun while we’re in Palm Springs during covid to see some fun houses. The app had the idea right, there was fun houses to see but using the app was a nightmare. First, it uses it own navigation in the app, not app or Google and it’s awful to say the least. There is no option to take the location and open it in another mapping app. Then I tried to copy and paste the address from the app to bring it to Google, well you can’t highlight any text to copy an address so after my $4.99 I was held hostage by their terrible robot map. My kids were yelling at me in the back seat to turn her voice off but I couldn’t because the map didn’t show up in CarPlay so I had to continually look down at my phone to make sure I was on the right path. I’m not angry enough to ask for my money back but I’m angry enough to spend 10 minutes writing a review in hopes that others don’t make the same mistake..Version: 4.6.7
✓ DisappointedI was in a park in Budapest, looking for the right path to follow. However, this app couldn’t find my position. It was over 50 m off. I finally closed it, and went to Motion-x, which immediately showed my location, but obviously couldn’t show the next waypoint. I really needed this app to update my gps position quickly and accurately, but it didn’t..Version: 4.4.3
✓ Useless unless you payHad this app recommended to me and downloaded it as I was going abroad. Found it useless as I kept trying to find how to get the walk started. Well it never does unless you upgrade and pay. Shame on them. Useless app. Deleted it while away on vacation..Version: 4.4.1
✓ Crashes regularly... needed to restart frequentlyPlease fix....Version: 4.4.3
✓ Good but lacks stabilityDownloaded for free then have to pay for a subscription or individual locations. Paid for a map of Venice which worked fine the first time. Shutdown but when I went to start the app again it just kept crashing. When it finally worked it was useful. Absolutely killed my battery though used 80% of an iPhone X battery in less than 4 hours. I normally get about a day and a half from normal use. Not sure I’ll use again.Version: 4.5.3
✓ Maps don’t workLots of ads and unfortunately the maps don’t work without paid subscription.Version: 4.7.3
✓ Very weakSomebody has sat in office far away from Cyprus and thought they can make this app. It’s rubbish there is no guided walk which other apps like this have talking about buildings as you pass them telling you to turn left et cetera. This is just some stuff Scraped of Wikipedia you could easily do that Yourself. The Greek pronunciation is Appalling it is impossible to associate what she is saying with the street names, which are transliterated, into English on the ground but cannot be matched to the garbled nonsense she speaks. If I paid euro or euro 50 for that then fair enough peanuts and monkeys but it was five years!.Version: 4.4.3
✓ Pointless waste of space! Don’t botherThree apps that do exactly the same thing (which is nothing at all! ) and you have to download all and pay for the last one so that any of the apps even activate the basic function they are supposed to. How about you just have 1 app!.Version: 4.4.1
✓ Too frustratingGreat concept but wish it made sense. The map does not autorotate when walking which makes it incredibly confusing and frustrating. I finally deleted the app as it just doesn’t work. You end up walking around in circles. Too bad because I think it is a great idea and reasonably priced..Version: 4.7.5
✓ CafuWorks only with touristic attraction, but if you get lost and punch in an address won’t find it. More work should be done. Hoped you got the job done before you ask for money..Version: 4.6.5
✓ Hard to use and glitchyPaid version doesn’t integrate with free download so continual prompts to upgrade. Have to select every point on a walk separately, different but equally poor voices for navigation and information. Ill thought out and uninformative.Version: 4.5.3
✓ ImpossibleI thought this would be very useful. Can’t even get past the ads so deleting it now.Version: 4.7.6
✓ Very irritatingEvery time you go to the app -- even if you've just flipped to another app or your phone has powered down -- you have to go through the tedious process of waiting for the app to launch, finding the map you want, opening it, and finding where you were on the map. Not practical to use until this is fixed..Version: 1.4
✓ Needs attentionThis app has good details on the walking tours which is available in free version. I upgraded only to get gps feature and the gps feature doesn’t worked at all. Their 3 days trial is available, so I have canceled my subscription.Version: 4.5.3
✓ Sigh!Free hu? You think your getting more than you are, until you want to view all the good stuff, then you'll have to pay for it $$$.Version: 2.1
✓ Crashes after 20 secondsAfter the latest update the app crashes after showing the loading screen for 20 seconds..Version: 3.0.1
✓ Not for a single tripI downloaded this app for a one city trip I plan to take in a few weeks. I have no further trips planned. After downloading it I discovered it’s a 3 day free trial, after which an annual fee applies. Nowhere had I seen that information before getting the app. I deleted It because paying for a year’s use for a single trip isn’t worth it. And I didn’t appreciate the surprise of not seeing the cost until after downloading it. I’d probably have paid a one month use fee if it was a option and if they disclosed up front what the cost is..Version: 4.7.2
✓ So slowApp is a nice idea, and it’s got ok content, but is weirdly slow and awkward to use. Lots of buttons don’t do anything (like the ‘Go There’ buttons) tab bar buttons are really hard to hit on an iPhone X device, search is clunky. For what they’re charging, feels very unpolished..Version: 4.5.3
✓ Hardly works at allThe navigation turns on and off randomly. Some of the information is outdated. The phone keeps turning off while using the app and needs to be turned on again, causing me to lose my place on the tour. Some of the tours just show you some pictures and don’t tell you anything about the site. Sometimes the dot and fan that indicate where I am starts spinning around. The fan is too sensitive to body movement while walking and causes the navigation to change instructions over and over again. I wasted a morning of my vacation getting frustrated and not learning much. Also wasted my money on the app. The app is a great idea. It just doesn’t work very well..Version: 4.5.3
✓ A bad appI purchased this , downloaded the walks in the city of choice and as soon as I try to action a walk i get asked to pay more money for an upgrade!!!!.Version: 4.3.5
✓ Not as good as original CityWalksI have used citywalks in about 20 cities over last 8 years and found the brief descriptions and the directions simple and easy to follow. Unfortunately iPhone upgrades were not compatible. Now the replacement GPSmycity is clumsy and far too wordy. Please just give us the facts without the personal travelogue. Let us decide what we want to see in the different categories. Not what your blogger liked.Version: 4.5.1
✓ Pretty useless nowThis App used to work but most of the time now it doesn't - it freezes. I'm tired of wasting download time and ace on city guides but then not being able to use them..Version: 3.3
✓ Have to hate itI have an iPhone 4s running iOS7 and it just crashes very time I try to open it so have to give it * only as I can’t even see how it works.Version: 3.1.1
✓ Great idea but crashesThis app is very useful, providing a great opportunity to casually follow a walking tour and take as long as you like to do it and be flexible for stops along the way. BUT extremely annoyingly crashes constantly, having to re-load constantly, even shutting down mid use. This negative borderline outweighs its positives, as it’s very frustrating to be constantly reloading every time you check your route or on getting to the location, find you e hit to re-load it again to read the fantastic info about it!! If that can be fixed, and EASY five stars, without doubt!!.Version: 5.0.1
✓ Would Pay More $$ for More OptionsWhile the app is cheaper than hiring a walking guide in each city, there should be more functionality to it. I downloaded it for one city and was only able to take one neighborhood walking tour. There were other neighborhoods available but only for sightseeing walks, which weren’t worth it. It felt a little lazy just to include pictures of famous landmarks and attractions without historical context. If I just wanted to look at pretty buildings I could Google that or look at Instagram. Seeing as though I was only able to do one neighborhood discovery walk, the app was not worth it to me, luckily I used the 3 day free trial. I would not be opposed to paying more for more tours within each city/having each sightseeing walk be a discovery walk. I did like the flexibility of having the tour read to me , but having an actual human read it versus an autonomous voice would be better as well as having easier access to the voice option..Version: 4.6.1
✓ Street names not EnglishI just tried this app in Tel Aviv and found it impossible to follow the directions to the sites because the map in this app only gives the street names in Hebrew. Should have English option..Version: 4.7.2
✓ Not very goodWaste of time and space. I’m not going to pay for a map before I know if it’s any good. Also according to reviews, you need data to use. That’s NOT how gps works. Easier just to download google maps offline, and research places to see.Version: 4.4.1
✓ Can not register after paying for a subscription. No feedback about why.Great app when it’s working but unfortunately that doesn’t happen for long.Version: 5.0
✓ Not worth itHave to upgrade to get any use from it..Version: 4.2.3
✓ Nothing more than ok.Free guide is just as good (or bad) as the paid one. Not great but some good tips in there..Version: 1.4
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