Locatify SmartGuide

Explore like a local with Location-Based Tour Guides

Locatify SmartGuide app

Travel Smarter

A trusted local guide in your pocket! Learn about your surroundings with audio narrations, maps and points of interest.

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What is SmartGuide?

SmartGuide is a tourism app which makes it easy to create and enjoy local tour guide experiences.

Tours are created via the Creator CMS & published to the app which uses maps and location-tech to deliver contextual information about your surroundings.

Who is it for?

SmartGuide is suitable for anyone who wants to engage, or help people to engage, with their surroundings.

It is perfect for explorers, tour operators, museums, municipalities and heritage organisations who want to connect people and places using technology.

How is it used?

SmartGuide hosts a collection of tours which tourists can access from the app home page or via invitation codes.

Tours are downloaded to a mobile device and can then be enjoyed anytime, either on-location or as virtual guides from the comfort of home.

Locatify SmartGuide app for geolocation tours

Location to Destination

Turn your city, park, exhibition, gallery or building into a tourist destination.

SmartGuide for Destinations

Our cloud-based Creator CMS® Content Management System allows for creating audio-tours and updating locations and content from a desktop browser anytime.

For outdoor tours, you simply place pins on the map where you want to trigger media content, like audio/video, images, and text. You select the radius, and when a user enters the radius chosen, the app will trigger the content you’ve attached to the pin.

Indoor tours consist of “Floors” and “Stations”. You create Floors and on them, you can place a floor plan graphic and stations that will appear on the top of the floor plan. If you skip the floorplan, the stations are shown as a list in the app.

You can test your tour as many times as you need and publish it to SmartGuide in a matter of seconds when you’re ready!

You have the choice of listing your tour in the app, or hiding it and having your users access it using one-time use vouchers that you generate after publishing.

Locatify SmartGuide is free to download from the App Store for iOS and Play Store for Android. Devices need a sim card in order for the GPS to work properly. After downloading the app to access your project, your users only need to be connected to the internet while the project is being downloaded, allowing for offline tour use.

We have extensive documentation and articles in our Help center, as well as tutorials on how to go about building and publishing a tour.

  • Indoor or Outdoor Location-based Tours: For outdoor tours, destination points are automatically activated using GPS when users enter the activation radius. Indoor tours use BLE Beacons or Ultra-Wideband to trigger content, alternatively numbered stations with a dial pad.
  • Virtual Tour option: Allow for manual activation by pressing on the pins or using a list of points for virtual tours.
  • Multimedia content includes audio, text, images, and video.
  • Multilingual, allowing you to reach a wider audience by providing tour content in multiple languages.
  • Offline content does not require internet access to operate once the app is installed and the content downloaded.
  • Custom Maps & Pins create a unique user experience.
  • Optional Login to collect user contact details.
  • Social Media sharing integration.
  • Import and Export option to reuse content and tours quickly.
  • Creator CMS Content Management System: Allows for updating tour locations and content anytime.
  • Outdoor Location Technology: To determine the user’s location outdoor, GNSS or GPS is used. 
  • Indoor Location aware technology: To determine the users’s location indoor, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transmitters or Ultra Wide-band anchors are placed in the venue. 
  • Indoor venues without location triggering: can use a map with clickable areas for containing tour content, or show tour content in a list.
  • Devices and software: Both Android and iOS devices are supported with Locatify apps available for iOS 8.1 + Android 4.3+ devices.
  • Tour publication: Tours are published to the Locatify SmartGuide app which is available on both Android and iOS.
  • Offline use: All tour content is available offline once the app and tour have been downloaded. The user’s device needs to be connected to the internet in order to receive content updates. To receive push notifications the app needs cellular or 3G/4G/5G connection.

Publisher’s fee: Locatify charges a monthly or annual subscription fee for hosting content. View Plans & Pricing for more info.

User’s fee: The tour can either be free or the publisher can use vouchers and sell access via their own channels.

Locatify SmartGuide app features

Pricing

Suitable for businesses who want to use tour guides for tourism.

For non-profit organizations, click here.

What Our Partners Say

“The Beats Tours use Locatify’s SmartGuide for our City of Liverpool & Beatles Tours. With music, maps, language translation & commentary on the SmartGuide app it adds so much to our unique tour experience.”

Rob Smith, Owner/Operator, The Beats Tours LTD, UK

“The Guides developed by Locatify has been a great success in the Settlement Centre of Iceland. The App works really well and the staff of Locatify is only one phone-call away.”

Sigríður Margrét Guðmundsdóttir, The Settlement Centre, Iceland

“Locatify offers a solution for an educational or tourist walk or bike ride, which is at the same time affordable and very efficient. The back office invites you to experiment, but it is simple and functional. The GPS function certainly surprises with its precision. We are proud to be able to offer the ‘Tour de Buiting’ bike tour on the SmartGuide app.

Etienne Bervoets, paalonline.be, Belgium

“A group of 150 fans of The Blue Nile, from as far afield as Chicago and Tokyo, came together in a “Gathering” held in Glasgow in Sept 2016.

A “walking tour” had been suggested for the visitors but, in a much changed city, how could even the best tourguide hope to bring alive the somewhat grey-er Glasgow of the early 1980’s – the cityscape which the band’s ‘art-soul’ so inhabits?

Then I found The SmartGuide and made “The Source of The Nile” GPS walk with my own narration and a photo of each location.

The team were super helpful and have since helped me add better images and even new features – including links to recommended songs from The Blue Nile catalog!

No taped system or even live guide can do this – just fantastic technology and SUCH a great team!” 

PJ Moore, In Time of Flight, Scotland

How To Get Started

1) Sign up for Creator CMS
2) Create your guide project
3) Download Locatify SmartGuide app
4) Publish your project

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