Chicago Travel Guide and Offline City Map app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 4384 ratings )
Travel Navigation
Developer: Ulmon GmbH
Free
Current version: 8.3.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 15 Dec 2009
App size: 128.92 Mb

Offline Maps and much more! Discover new places and insider tips. Collect, save and organize them as you like. And have the best trip ever!
 
Welcome to Ulmon Guides, globetrotters! With us travelling got easier and even more fun. Here’s what you get – the shortest possible version:
 
• Free offline maps – no roaming, no hustle
• Multifunctional lists to plan and organize your trip
• Insider tips and places to discover
 
We let you discover new places, beautiful spots and insider tips at the touch of a button. Collect your personal best-of and save it for later. You will experience your best journeys yet with detailed offline maps and in-depth travel content on your mobile travel companion.
 
 
Featured opinions about our travel apps:
 
"Essential app for travelers", Time Magazine
 
"One of the best offline maps apps", WSJ
 
"Maps without racking up roaming costs", Macworld
 
 
And here’s why 15+ million travelers love Ulmon apps:
 
 
CLEAR AND CONCISE MAPS
Never get lost again. See your location on the map via gps, no internet connection is required. Find streets, addresses or attractions and get pointed in the walking direction.
 
IN-DEPTH TRAVEL CONTENT
You’ll never have to buy another guide book. Ulmon Guides features pictures as well as comprehensive and up-to-date information are available for thousands of places and attractions.
 
SEARCH AND DISCOVER
Search a specific place by name or browse by categories like restaurants, architecture, hotels, shops, bars, etc.
 
SHARE WITH FRIENDS
Create your own reviews and ratings of your favorite places. Share these tips and recommendations with friends and other travelers.
 
PLAN TRIPS AND CUSTOMIZE MAPS
Book the hotel for your next city tour right within the app. Remember and save all places you would like to visit. Create new or individual ones. Mark them with different colors or add notes to them. 
 
BACKUP AND SYNC
Create a user account and login from any of your iOS devices. So all your personal content is right where you want it to be.
 
SAVE ROAMING FEES
Maps and guide content are stored on directly your device so you can access them at any time even without an internet connection. An internet connection is of course required for initial downloading of data or booking hotels.
 
 
Some technical information about Ulmon Guides:
 
Map data is provided by OpenStreetMap – a fantastic collaborative open project comparable to Wikipedia. Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide contribute to create the most complete and up-to-date source of map and POI data. We encourage everyone to contribute, please check www.openstreetmap.org for details. We regularly fetch updates from OpenStreetMap and deliver them to you free of charge.
 
Travel content is aggregated and compiled from open web sources like Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap as well as our partner companies like booking.com and getyourguide. By bringing all the information together, we want to give you one central, easy-to-use collection of relevant information.
 
Ulmon, the makers of CityMaps2Go, are a small team of enthusiastic tech and travel freaks in Vienna, Austria. We work hard to give our fellow travelers around the globe a reliable and comprehensive source of information and guidance for their mobiles and tablets.
 
We’d love to hear what it is you like about our apps and how we can improve it for you. Drop us an email at support@ulmon.com. Enjoy your travels … and don’t forget to send us a postcard. Your Ulmon team! :-)

Pros and cons of Chicago Travel Guide and Offline City Map app for iPhone and iPad

Chicago Travel Guide and Offline City Map app good for

I like this app because zooming in and out is very fast (faster than other apps tried) and works offline.
I plan to visit Chicago next week and I already have everything planned out thanks to this App. Extremely useful for a visitor.
Will prove useful during trip to Chicago. Has helped in planning our time there.
So grateful for this helpful app while I was in Chicago this summer. The offline maps were especially useful, as roaming data charges are insane otherwise.
We will be visiting Chicago this week, and I think this App will come in handy. Especially the feature "around me".
Ive been living in Chicago my whole life and would love to know alittle bit more of city. This app will definitely do the job! Chicago Works app is another great download! Help clean up the streets. This app does the job!

Some bad moments

Very rarely am I compelled to leave a negative app review. Chicago2Go is an exception. I was pretty displeased with this app. The map is almost unusable, its way better to simply load google Maps before you go, zoom in, pan around, and that data will be stored locally even if you dont have data roaming turned on. The one restaurant I needed to find was not listed, even though its a relatively well known place in Lincon Park. If you think this app is your one stop Chicago resource, think again. Im probably going to delete it.
Good if you are looking for common information. No user comment or rating capability built into the app.
I downloaded this app in a hurry as I departed for my trip to Chicago. Once in the city I had time to properly review its interface...only to find out this is basically just a collage of every Wikipedia entry concerning Chicago history/buildings/people. There are zero graphics, not always a photo for each entry (inconsistent), so it is hard to find information on what youre looking for when youre searching through textual titles. All in all, not worthwhile!
We purchased a tour from this app and my paypal account got charged. However, we never received the confirmation email. I had to find the company that it booked through and call them to find out reservation- luckily this app sent it through. It was however about double the price than if I had booked directly with the company. These guys are a huge scam!
Disappointing. The "searchable map" can only be searched for pre-selected points of interest and does not recognize addresses. If youre vacationing here this is a handy offline guide to tourist destinations but its damn near useless for a resident.
This app is basically a bunch of Wikipedia links. Save yourself a dollar and get the free Wikipedia app instead.

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