Boston Historical Tours

About Boston Historical Tours Android App

Welcome to Boston’s GPS-enabled professionally-narrated offline walking tours!

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.

#Boston’s Freedom Trail -
This 2.5-mile Freedom Trail winds through historic Boston.
Re-live the battles for American Independence.

See/listen to Freedom Trail’s engaging stories of the revolution highlights:
Boston Common
State House
Park Street Church
Granary Burying Ground
King's Chapel
Franklin Statue
Old Meeting House
Old Corner Bookstore
Old State House
Boston Massacre Site
Faneuil Hall
Paul Revere House
Old North Church
Copp's Hill Burying Ground
Bunker Hill Monument

#Cambridge’s Harvard Yard -
Harvard Yard is the heart of the famous Ivy League university
60 min walking tour of Harvard Yard in Cambridge
Learn Harvard’s history and evolution
“Who stayed where”: see where Harvard’s famous alumni lived

#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

This app-based tour has significant benefits over other apps and over live guides:
#Easy to use
#Fully automatic
#Fascinating stories
#Freedom to travel anytime
#Save a lot - real savings
#Visualize what you cannot see directly
#Take the story home

#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. It’s like Google Maps and a tour book combined in one! 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 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.
#Fascinating stories with professional narration, stops with images, videos, or gifs, and transcripts if you prefer to read instead of listening.
#Full access to all the stories.
#GPS Automatic Play for the stories.
#Take all the stories home.
#Works Offline


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

Quick tips:
Familiarize yourself with the app while at home.
Allow a couple of hours for the tour.

Just download the app and get started!