VoiceMap Reviews 119

Making my Madrid river tour was the first time working with this kind of technology, the tutorials were super useful and explained things clearly. You also have a real person to talk to and ask any questions which is invaluable. Once you've got your head around the mapping technology, it's fairly easy to create the tour, the step by step process is relatively idiot proof! If you have a tour in mind, or even a pre-written one, it's a great way to make some passive income.

I've been working with VoiceMap for years now and I'm thrilled about their process. Creating and selling online audio tours on VoiceMap is a blast. They help out with the editing, guide you from ideation to publication, and keep everything running smoothly, so I don't need to worry about anything and make more time to delivering awesome guided tours in Tel Aviv, Israel.

I've done a few tours with Voicemap. It's a lot of work, but the finished product is always excellent.

I have done nine tours with VoiceMap and really enjoy the process that allows you to really get to know locations and share that knowledge with others.

The percentage for the publisher is fair and they always pay promptly.

A great experience

Great experience overall

I recently created a tour using VoiceMap, and the overall experience was great. Really friendly and helpful staff, who were quick to respond to any queries. The app also works really well. Highly recommended!

Excellent support and service from Voicmap!!! They were friendly and very helpful every step of the way. 5 and a half stars!!!

I just complete creating a tour with VoiceMap. They were an amazing company with a solid team of technological and creative individuals to help one create a tour that will provide for a great experience.

I did an audio-tour with VoiceMap in 2014. Then, in 2022 I updated it and did a new tour. It has gotten so much easier in the meantime! The staff is extremely helpful and the creation and recording of the tour was simple, fun, and professional. I'm 100% happy with the outcome, and I am looking forward to creating more tours.

Excellent customer service with their clients. Detailed tutorials are available to help their clients. The team is wonderful to work with -very responsive.

Setting up a tour with Voicemap is probably one of the easiest ways to get going. As an author the process is really simple and I am in full control of what will eventually go out under my banner.
With no upfront costs this is the perfect solution for anyone with an idea but no free cash to set up. All the costs are clearly set out with no hidden charges.
The editing process is efficient and friendly – Alicia is always very helpful and makes my tour sound like me but better.
I would heartily recommend using Voicemap to set up a tour of your favourite location. There is nothing to lose except the time it takes you to write the script and set the location.
The final result is brilliant with sound effects added to make the whole experience professional and exciting.
All in all, if you are looking for a tour app then Voicemap would be the one to choose.
Excellent service from start to finish.

As someone who is seeking to create non-linear tours with upwards of a thousand locations, I think it is safe to assume that I represent the outer limit of this platform’s consumer base. I started making GPS Audio tours on the Detour platform years ago, but when they went defunct, I was left searching for a replacement. After years of searching and several disappointments, I have landed on this platform and still use it to this day.
The best piece of advice I could give anyone looking to use these tools is to get used to resetting them: almost every glitch I have yet encountered can be addressed simply by refreshing the voice maps webpage. Stuck on a loading screen? Refresh the page. Map frozen after moving a location? Refresh the page. Location not responding to being clicked on? Refresh the page. Refreshing the page is so integral to the process that some features, such as cloning locations, appear to use it by default, and if anything, this is its biggest weakness. The need to constantly reorient yourself means that certain otherwise simple tasks (such as uploading audio to over 100 locations) can become arduous when you must keep relocating what you were just working on.
In addition, navigation and organization can be very difficult because there are next to no tools to compartmentalize your tours or locations. The option to organize tours into folders or bins or even to delete them would be a godsend when dealing with multiple drafts of the same tour, and when you are dealing with tours of hundreds of locations, finding a particular location can become frustrating. The information and tools you have at your disposal are limited by which view you are working in, and you are unable to shrink the browser window to a width lower than 1000 pixels (which is particularly problematic for me as I like to reference notes while working on my tours). These problems are further compounded by the fact that, when a tour has too many locations, Voicemap slows down to the point of being borderline unusable, making it impossible to work on larger tours. Luckily, the Voicemap team is extremely responsive and highly ingenuitive. Even when they don’t have a direct solution, they always manage to find some creative, out of the box way of dealing with my problems, such as when they rigged up a method to combine multiple smaller tours into one larger one as a way of bypassing the slowdown I was experiencing.
I could continue complaining, but the truth is that I would just be nitpicking, and these tools were clearly not designed for the scale I’m working at anyway, so if anything I’m impressed they even work. All you really need to know is this; I’ve spent a long time searching for a platform with which to experiment on, and this is the first one that’s stuck because for all its quirks, it is remarkably consistent in its quirkiness. I won’t say it’s perfect, but if you are like me and looking to innovate with GPS Audio Content, I genuinely could not point you to a more solid platform.

This team really took a small idea that I had and made it into a reality. They were always willing to answer any question and give me advice when I was stuck. I really appreciate the time and guidance.

A few months ago I was actively contacted by Voicemap to create a tour in my hometown since I am the host and creator of a history podcast about my hometown. I was very happy about that, because I always wanted to organize a city tour, but never had time for it due to my professional life. However, the tours guided by GPS and smartphone that Voicemap offer give me exactly the chance to share the rich history of my hometown with people from all over the world that visit. At any time.
When creating a tour, you are directly supervised by an editor who is permanently assigned to you. The editor wonderfully picked up my own ideas, opened myself up for new ideas about story-telling and always supported me when I struggled with the process. From designing the route, to scripting, to the final recording and distribution process. When the tour was finished, I was almost a little sad that the creation process was over. So I will surely create another city tour in the near future. I can therefore highly recommend Voicemap.

I started as a customer then I realised what a great way it was to publish a tour. Having an editor really helps to see how your tour appears to others. I found that creating the tour on their website was easier when you prepare the script first. Then they can help you to get the best out of it. After that I was on to the sound file. Again the team at Voicemap made that easier as well.. There is a library of support files to help you promote the tour and it always surprises me how soon the customers get interested. Payments then passed through to me without any hold ups.

I have nothing but praise for the Voicemap team. As a tour guide, with my own walking tour business, four years ago I took the plunge and decided to have a go at creating a voicemap tour. Although I was initially nervous about the technology, the support from the team was second-to-none, with a special mention to Gary, who is not only excellent at what he does and a highly skilled editor, he is always friendly and supportive with it. Four years on and I have now completed five of them, across two countries, with more in the pipeline. The tours, some of which I used to deliver in person, are now lifted to a completely different plane, as easy to download audiotours with added music and sound effects, to help the listener become completely immersed and help me get the story across exactly as I want. This has had a particularly profound effect on the ghost tours! Working with Voicemap is always fun, and a shared creative experience.

As a VoiceMap publisher, I've enjoyed the opportunity to publish my tours on this incredible app, and collaborating with my VoiceMap editors has been a pleasure—as well as a valuable process. Through their expertise and guidance, I’ve been able to distill my tour narrative and focus its impact. A lot of the success of my VoiceMap tours is due to their direction.

I developed a tour for VoiceMap a few years ago and found their guidance and editing support to be very helpful in publishing a polished product. They made the sound quality so much better and made sure that the recordings trigger in the right places. They have quickly and efficiently handled updates to my tour and royalty payments have been made without fuss.

I found the tour editing straightforward to handle and had good support from the in-house team. Since launch about nine months ago, my audio tour has provided a small but welcome passive income to supplement my other freelance work. Royalty payments have been clear and paid promptly.

I've been working with VoiceMap for several years and have nothing but good things to say. As a matter of fact I'm about to start developing a new tour. It's a nice side stream of income for a travel podcaster. The company has been supportive at every turn, I am really happy with our relationship.

I have produced so far 5 GPS audio tours, 3 for Bogotá and 2 for Cartagena. The Voicemail team has always been on top of everything and pay royalties on time.