At the top of VoiceMap’s leaderboard, there’s a dizzyingly accomplished traveller who has done 178 tours in 20 countries and 77 destinations. She’s walked over 400km (250mi), covered almost 1,000km (600mi) by car, and spent a total of 250 hours – more than 10 days – doing VoiceMap tours.
She’s not alone. The top 5% of our users do roughly 25% of our tours, with an average of 12 walks, drives, and museum guides per person, so far, in a cohort that has doubled in size since January this year. If you’re in this group, version 16 is for you – and we’d also love to interview you for our new series, How We Travel. Just tell us about yourself here.
So, what will you find in this update?
- You can now mark tours as Completed, then filter them out of your library.
- You can sort your library by when you added tours, with newest or oldest first, along with what’s nearby and a basic alphabetical sort. There’s a recently added view now too.
- We’ve improved offline mode, with a simpler status across the app that celebrates time away from the screen.
- Search is more useful in version 16, with a new look – and in addition to searching by tour, destination and publisher, you can now search by attraction and find all the tours linked to a specific landmark. There are 15 that traverse Florence’s Ponte Vecchio, for example.
Our roadmap has all sorts of improvements for our most active users coming soon. Better ways to manage your library are only the first step, and if you’ve spent anywhere close to 250 hours doing our tours, we’d love to hear what would be most useful for you.
