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Boston Tours app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 2112 ratings )
Travel Navigation
Developer: manoj ganguli
Free
Current version: 1.4, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 12 Jun 2019
App size: 35.36 Mb

Welcome to a GPS-enabled professionally-narrated walking tour of Boston’s Freedom Trail!

Are you ready to turn your phone into a personal tour guide? This app offers a fully-guided experience - just like a local giving you a personalized, turn-by-turn, fully-guided tour.

Boston’s Freedom Trail:

This 2.5-mile Freedom Trail winds through historic Boston.

Re-live the battles for American Independence.

See/listen to Freedom Trail’s engaging stories of the revolution highlights:

Boston Common

State House

Park Street Church

Granary Burying Ground

Kings Chapel

Franklin Statue

Old Meeting House

Old Corner Bookstore

Old State House

Boston Massacre Site

Faneuil Hall

Paul Revere House

Old North Church

Copps Hill Burying Ground

Bunker Hill Monument


Now 2 new Boston tours added!

Cambridge’s Harvard Yard:

Harvard Yard is the heart of the famous Ivy League university

60 min walking tour of Harvard Yard in Cambridge

Learn Harvard’s history and evolution

“Who stayed where”: see where Harvard’s famous alumni lived


Boston’s Harborwalk:

This scenic 1.5-mile tour of the waterfront around Boston Harbor

90-minute walking tour guide.

Historic sites (Boston Tea Party) to modern-day luxury (Long Wharf)

Learn about the Boston Tea Party in detail


This app-based tour of Boston’s Freedom Trail has significant benefits over other apps and over live guides:

1. Easy to use

2. Fully automatic

3. Fascinating stories

4. Freedom to travel anytime

5. Save a lot - real savings

6. Visualize what you cannot see directly

7. Take the story home

1. Easy to use: Download the app on your own phone. Then download the tour(s) you’re interested in taking. Simply follow the GPS map & the routing line. It’s like Google Maps and a tour book combined in one! The tour takes you to every single stop; you won’t miss a thing and won’t get lost.

2. Fully automatic: Each point of interest along the tour has a narrated story, narrated directions, and helpful images, gifs or videos. As you walk along the path and approach a pin, it’s story will automatically pop up and start playing.

3. Fascinating stories: Engaging, accurate, and entertaining story about each point of interest. The stories are professionally narrated and prepared by local guides. Most stops also have additional stories that you can optionally choose to hear.

4. Freedom to travel: No scheduled tour timings, no crowded groups, and no rush to move along past stops that interest you. You have total freedom to skip ahead, linger, and take as many photos as you’d like.

5. Save a ton: No “per person” tickets for guided tours! No tips per person.

6. Visualize: what you cannot see: most stops have images, some have animated gifs from different centuries, seasons, or for interior rooms.

7. Take the story home: Enjoy the tour before, during, and after your visit. Easily create an album or share the images & stories with your friends and family.

What comes with the Free app for Boston’s Freedom Trail:

1 Map with a guided routing line.

2 List of all the stops that you will come across on the tour.

3 Preview: A few fascinating stories with professional narration, stops with images, videos, or gifs, and transcripts if you prefer to read instead of listening.

With the In-App purchase you’ll get:

1 All of the above features.

2 Full access to all the stories.

3 GPS Automatic Play for the stories.

Just download the app and get started with Boston’s Freedom Trail!

NOTE: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. This app uses your location service and GPS tracking feature to allow real-time tracking of your route.