- Price$5.99
- CategoryTravel
- Versions2 archived
- Installable2 of 2
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerLonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd
- Bundle IDcom.lonelyplanet.cityguide.vienna
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Waltz your way through Wien, with Lonely Planet’s Vienna City Guide on your iPhone! To newcomers, Austria’s stylish capital can seem austere and a little hard to crack; so let the world’s leading guidebook publisher help you break the ice. Whether it’s a homage to Harry Lime atop the Riesenrad, Mozart’s greatest hits in the Musikverein, the Hapsburg high-life at Schloss Schönbrunn or sachertorte and kafee mit schlag (coffee with cream) at the Café Sacher, you’ll find it all here. Wunderbar!
FEATURES
Imagine taking the world's favourite guidebook and making the information interactive, personalised and fully searchable. Imagine dynamic maps that plot your exact location, guiding you through the quirky, the curious and the straight-up compulsory experiences recommended by our community of on-the-road authors and users. Now imagine that guidebook on your iPhone, with you wherever you travel. Well, imagine no more: the world's favourite guidebook has just arrived on the world's favourite phone.
# easy to use – swipe to scroll through a full table of contents, dip into sections, and turn pages with a flick of your finger
# offline maps – there’s no need to go online to access our detailed street maps, fully retooled for the iPhone with location awareness, multi-touch controls, full-colour styling and six-level zoom
# tons to see and do – choose how to search through hundreds of geo-coded points-of-interest (POIs) – by proximity, category, preferences or favourites – then just tap to visit the website, or place a direct call
# text search – whether you’re into ‘live music' or ‘fine dining’, every article and POI in your guidebook is text-searchable
# location-based navigation – plot your location in real time on our interactive maps, exploring back streets and hidden treasures with no danger of losing your way
# worth a thousand words … – if you need some inspiration, just thumb through images taken by our award-winning photographers
# personalisation – tailor your City Guide to your tastes by tagging the best POIs as ‘favourites’
# money saving – forget roaming costs, our apps are designed for offline use, and only take up the room of an average album on your iPod
# over 50 City Guides available – including London, New York, Melbourne, Dublin, Barcelona, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo and many more
We'd love to hear your feedback, feature requests and ideas.
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 22, 2010 | 1.2.3 | — | 96 | Free |
| June 14, 2011 | 1.2.4 | — | 546 | $5.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
I absolutely loved this app
When i purchased this app, i expected that it would contain the same info as the book edition. Well, this app is a very abbreviated version of the book, which was greatly disappointing. In addition, the design is not very interactive. It would be helpful if, while reading description of a site, i could click on it and see it immediately on the map. Or, it would be nice to be able to switch pages by a finger swipe instead of having to click on the arrows.
Crashed so often I stopped using it. Every time I zoomed into the map it got screwed up and I would need to restate. IF it didn't crash on its own. Come on LP, Really? My traveling companion's did the exact same thing. I have iOS4 and she didn't.
App was lacking. Not all sights discussed had map links. How easy would it have been to do so? Also note it is a super abbreviated version, for use on iPhone. If you want only very brief summaries, this can do. Otherwise buy the full PDF version of the guidebook. If you are in a super rush to quickly read up on Vienna right before you depart on your trip (as I was) then this does the job well.
My complaints have changed -- I found the geotargeted maps (blame the counterintuitive interface: "maps" appears in two sections). Now if they'd work on replacing the bland amateur tourist photography and cleaning up the history...
It needs upgrade now!!!
Absolutely lame! They simply ported the book to an app. You can't search the map by street, and you can't bookmark places which aren't in the book. There's no straying from the LP-approved itinerary with this lousy app! Don't waste your money if you're looking for a functional Vienna map app.
I was expecting this version to be similar to the Prague guide (which is very useful). It is structured poorly, not very user friendly, and there isn't nearly as much information. Not sure if any other paid app is better, but don't waste your money on this one. I hope lonely planets other guides are more like the Prague version.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.