About this app

Welcome to Harvard University and The Freedom Trail: GPS-enabled professionally-narrated walking tours by Action Tour Guide!

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.

You’ll find three tours in one app - all highly entertaining, thoroughly researched and prepared by local guides.

Cambridge Harvard University Yard:
Harvard Yard is the heart of the famous Ivy League university’s campus. Approx 60 minute.
Learn about Harvard’s history and evolution.
Find out “who stayed where” in Harvard dorms.

2. The Freedom Trail:
This 2.5-mile trail winds through historic Boston. Approx 90 minute walk.
See key American Revolution highlights like the Boston Common, Old North Church, Paul Revere’s home & statue, and Bunker Hill.
Re-live the battles for American independence.

#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

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. 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 app:
Tips to plan the trip. Help using the app.
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.
Take all the stories home.

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

DEMO vs FULL ACCESS:
Check out the demo to get an idea of what this tour is all about. If you like it, purchase the tour to get full access to all of the stories.

Quick tips:
Familiarize yourself with the app while at home.
Allow a couple of hours for the tour.
Don’t hesitate to reach out immediately if you face an issue! We are committed to responding as quickly as possible.

What are you waiting for? Just download the app and get started!

Stop List for Harvard Yard
Welcome to Harvard Yard
Johnston Gate (The not so lucky gate!)
Guard house (The most expensive building!)
Old yard (Naming Harvard)
Women at Harvard (Zero to majority)
John Harvard statue (Three lies)
Harvard Science Center (Higher you go, smarter you get).

New features

Bug Fixes
New Tours Added

App Permissions

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.