Barcelona Travel Guide (with Offline Maps) app for iPhone and iPad
4.2 (
5392 ratings )
Travel
Lifestyle
Developer:
mTrip Inc.
4.99 USD
Current version:
2.9.7, last update: 5 years ago
First release : 21 Jun 2010
App size: 141.9 Mb
9/10 in WIRED’s App Guide - Selected as an Honoree in the Webby Awards - Featured in CNN’s 50 Ultimate Travel Apps
ALSO FEATURED BY: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, msnbc, ABC News, Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, The Washington Post, Travel + Leisure…
UNIQUE FEATURES:
- 100% OFFLINE – NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED except for sharing and updates.
- TRAVEL GUIDE with attractions, museums, restaurants, bars, hotels, theatres and shops with TRAVELER REVIEWS and RATINGS, pictures, rich travel info, prices and opening hours.
- PERSONALIZED TRIP ITINERARIES - Exclusive technology - The Trip Genius automatically creates personalized trip itineraries according to your travel interests, pace preference, trip dates, accommodation, personalized favorites, location and opening hours of places as well as ratings from other travelers. Use smart order to rearrange your visits and customize your itinerary at any time.
- OFFLINE MAP & DIRECTIONS - The only guide with offline navigation! - Have the guide locate you on the map and provide you with directions to a place by foot or by subway. Use all map and direction features 100% offline with no roaming fees!
- AUGMENTED REALITY - View your environment and all the places to visit in real-time, with distance, ratings, prices and opening hours.
- TRIP JOURNAL - NEW FEATURE - Easily create and share a trip journal with your check-ins, pictures, and comments!
- SHARING – Share your check-ins, postcards, pictures, reviews and trip journal by email or Facebook. Items are stored on your device and sent automatically when a free internet connection is available!
- TRIP DASHBOARD - Available at www.mtrip.me, the trip dashboard gathers your trip journals, itineraries, and favorite places from all of your destinations in one place. You can share it with friends and print your itineraries!
- TRANSFER YOUR ITINERARY between devices and back them up online
- OTHER FEATURES – Send pictures and postcards by email or Facebook, easily discover new places, currency converter, subway map, add personal places and more!
To explore mTrip’s other destinations please visit www.mtrip.com
mTrip’s Hong Kong Travel Guide is available in: English, French, and German
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Pros and cons of Barcelona Travel Guide (with Offline Maps) app for iPhone and iPad
Barcelona Travel Guide (with Offline Maps) app good for
As the one on Amsterdam, it s a very great app! Offline, very usefull.
Make your itinary as you wish, or let the app random it! Write your journal trip with your photos... Except that you cant add videos, this is really great!
I will take it for the next destinations, without hesitation!
I have all of them, always help me. Specialy about off lime maps.
This guide is PERFECT! Almost everything I would expect from an eGuide! Itinerary planner is nice, did not like the Genius recommendations but this is personal, as I like to plan myself, and adjust to my pace. Enhancements could be:
Display scale in map; directions do not show overall distance; allow marking the already visited places and suggest move non visited ones planned in a day to another; rotate map orientation to north, better Subway Map resolution...
I have used this app while in BCN a week ago - but got frequent crashes with this App on Iphone 4S. Wehen ignoring this fact it was OK
Talking about the Barcelona guide: At the cost of a bottle of wine this guide will supply you with a wealth of information. Just the mtrip genius alone is worth the money. You choose what you want to see, and how fast you are on foot or if you intend to rent a bike which is available everywhere and lets you cover way more attractions. Barcelona is extremely pedestrian and bike friendly. I just arrived in Barcelona and the information I collected thru m-trip before I even got here (hint: use the my favorites button) has already made my day. I already have accessed this info repeatedly on my non 3G I-Pad because you CAN run this app without access to the cloud or free WiFi the latter of which is not common here, finding my way from the bus stop to the hotel.
And by the way, of course you get a brief history summary, the hours of operation and cost of entry fees to name a few more benefits.
I didnt even have time yet to play with the augumented reality feature. So if you have time to play its included in the $5.99 as well.
Always have mtrip at least as a backup. Did I mention that a map of the city is part of the deal. Be without mtrip next time on your own risk.
Overall this is an excellent application. Just be wary when using the public transport routes as they are pretty bad. The system does not take into consideration buses or that you can change subway lines so it plans weird routes that send you to far away metro stations.
Some bad moments
-Very limited information; many sights have no information.
-Information on sights are provided by other users.
-No means to export itinerary to other applications or printer.
-Limited map area; BCN airport is outside the map so it is not possible to plot a route to your hotel.
-mTrip Genius function hangs when trying to create an itinerary whit too many favourite sites.
-Smart Order function is imprecise and creates itinerary that will send you to all four corners of the city on the same day.
-Only one itinerary can be created; creating a second one will delete the first.
This App is not worth paying for at this time.
I have many wonderful apps. This is not of them. Very confusing. Useless.
I would give it zero if I could.
Its frustrating. The GPS cant update fast enough if at all. And limited places listed. The map and GPS on the iPhone plus some other guide works much better. In fact the phone GPS is amazing. I discovered the beam function.
