GuidePal - Berlin Travel Tips

GuidePal is a mobile and web-based application that provides city guides via iPhone, iPad, and Android. Described as a "mobile travel and city discovery companion", their city guide app currently covers 57 destinations and can be accessed for free.

GuidePal was founded in 2009. The company's head office is based in Stockholm, Sweden,

Overview

GuidePal’s city guides are created by collaboration between locals and travel journalists. In the guides, GuidePal aims to offer an unbiased selection of each city’s highlights, with all tips, and advice, curated by experts actually living in the city.

Users can build their own personalised guides, create itineraries, invite friends and share tips with them, and book restaurants, hotels, tours, event tickets, and so on. The guides and maps can be made available offline.

The guides are written in English.

The content is broadly divided into seven sections: More About the City, Essentials, See & Do, Eat, Shop, Party, Stay. Subcategories include: Transportation, Airports and Useful Tips.

In March 2012, GuidePal released its first multi-destination app for iPhone. Three months later, the iPad version was released and achieved a "New and Noteworthy" status in the App Store. Since then, the company has also released a completely revamped multi-city app for Android.

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Mobile travel

The mobile travel market has seen a lot of new entrants in recent years with a clear "mobile first" product approach. This means that the core product and service offering are Mobile apps for smartphone and tablet computer. In contrast to (incumbent) companies that start on the web and add auxiliary mobile web or app products to expand their reach.

While mobile travel is a crowded space with new companies entering the market every month, only a few young companies have managed to reach a meaningful size of a million users. Among those companies are: GuidePal, Ulmon, Triposo, Pocket Guide.

Cities covered

1. Abu Dhabi
2. Amsterdam
3. Athens
4. Atlanta
5. Austin
6. Barcelona
7. Bangkok
8. Beijing
9. Berlin
10. Brussels
11. Boston
12. Buenos Aires
13. Copenhagen
14. Chicago
15. Dubai
16. Dublin
17. Edinburgh
18. Florence
19. Geneva
20. Glasgow
21. Havana
22. Ho Chi Minh City
23. Hong Kong
24. Honolulu
25. Istanbul
26. Kraków
27. Kuala Lumpur
28. Las Vegas
29. Lisbon
30. London
31. Los Angeles
32. Madrid
33. Miami
34. Milan
35. Montréal
36. Moscow
37. Mumbai
38. New Delhi
39. New Orleans
40. New York
41. Nice
42. Oslo
43. Paris
44. Perth
45. Prague
46. Reykjavik
47. Rome
48. San Francisco
49. Seattle
50. Shanghai
51. Singapore
52. Stockholm
53. Sydney
54. Taipei
55. Venice
56. Vienna
57. Vancouver