About this app

Welcome to a GPS-enabled professionally-narrated driving tour of Cape Ann Gloucester by Action Tour Guide!

This app offers a fully-guided experience - just like a local giving you a personalized, turn-by-turn tour of Cap Ann. It’s GPS-enabled and works offline.

Cape Ann Driving Tour:
Cape Ann Ocean Drive is a 120-minute driving tour.
Along this route you’ll see plenty of scenic beaches, pass through the historic towns of Gloucester and Rockport, and get a taste for the Massachusetts of days past.

Boston’s Freedom Trail
This 2.5-mile Freedom Trail winds through historic Boston.
Re-live the battles for American Independence.

This app-based tour of Cape Ann has significant benefits over other apps and over live guides:
Easy to use
Fully automatic
Fascinating stories
Freedom to travel anytime
Save a lot - real savings
Visualize what you cannot see directly
Take the story home

Want to know more about each of these?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 Demo:
Map with a guided routing line.
List of all the stops that you will come across on the tour.
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:
All of the above features.
Full access to all the stories.
GPS Automatic Play for the stories.

Award-winning app platform:
This app is created using an award-winning platform. The developers received the famous “Laurel Award” from the Newport Mansions, who use it for over a million tours/year.

Quick tips:
Familiarize yourself with the app while at home.
Allow a couple of hours for the tour.
Just download the app and get started!

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.

New features

New Content Addition.
Small bug fixed.

App Permissions

Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.
Allows an application to read from external storage.