Ariadne GPS App Reviews

... but there is still a bug in German translation. Left clock directions.

For the first version of an app, I think this is an awesome idea!!! I havent actually taken it out and tested it yet, but boice over works great with it!!! Keep up the good work!!

Fantastic that it was thought out so well, works very well with VoiceOver, even talking map, very fast, accurate, and absolutely best app in its class. Way better than anything that is in this category. certainly an app I will be using all of the time!

The best orientational GPS app yet.take note Sendero, this is the future.

I cant say enough about how nice it is to finally have an app of this nature. This quickly became one of my favorites in under 10 minutes! Well thought out and executed, this is the only accessible iOS application I have seen to date that truly offers virtual, as well as realtime navigation using VoiceOver all in one convenient place. Great job, it just works. Already Id hate to have to leave home without it!

Love it

I absolutely love this app. Please continue the great job your doing.

Using iPhone 3Gs, version 4.3.3 Pros: - This is one of the most innovative GPS applications I have come across. First discovered buried within the “App Lists” section of App Advice, a category dedicated to visually impaired and blind applications. Needless to say I was very excited to give it a try after reading the review. One of the first things I noticed when interacting with (VoiceOver) in the application, is the variety of ways to use it. While it gives the impression of information overload at first, playing around with the different modes presents several different ways of using this app. Pressing the “Where am I” button, gives a static readout of your present location. Pressing the “Look Around” button flips over to a full screen map, where nearby streets and their corresponding numbers are presented. Admittedly, this is a little confusing at first relying solely on VoiceOver. However, with all accessibility options within the application turned on. Map navigation becomes easier to understand. - Through some pretty extensive personal testing using the “Start Monitor” function, i.e. commuting on downtown busses, highway travel, suburban driving, walking, the most ideal use of this GPS application falls into more urban settings. The experiences in downtown commuting on busses were pretty impressive. Each intersection crossed was fairly reliable in being announced accurately. There were some latency issues when turning into new intersections, and some street names were skipped completely in being announced. However, periodically checking the street name yourself resolves this issue. While walking as the GPS application is in “monitor” mode, results in a similar experience as bus commuting. There are some latency issues with turning on to new streets, and the next street can be announced far in advance of actually approaching the intersection. These conditions were experienced with the “query interval” set at the default “10 seconds”. Changing the interval time could completely alter the experience of walking and using the GPS app. Cons: - Suburban driving and highway driving unfortunately had similar results. Even with the “query interval” set at “5 seconds”, the actual travel of the vehicle/bus was too fast for the GPS application to keep pace. - Perhaps naively, I expected the options for this GPS application to be within the program itself. Instead, all of the preferences were located within the settings control panel of the iPhone. Surprisingly and disappointing, most accessibility oriented options as “vibrate on street” were turned off by default. There are still some head scratching elements to be fully explored to be explained. For instance what does “Cardinal Point” and “Compass instead of Course” mean? How does this impact the performance of the application? No description is provided. - There is no way, or at least I have not yet found it, to delete added favorites from the list. Announcement of street block numbers seemed new and cool at first (using VoiceOver), but soon became repetitive. Unless you’re specifically searching for an address in real-time, this feature seems sort of useless if constantly turned on. On the main navigation page, the top third portion is of a satellite picture of your current location using Google Maps. This is pretty neat, but I would have never known what was there without my wife looking at it to point it out, as VoiceOver indicates nothing is there. Putting the application into the background disables the monitoring function if turned on. Battery drain, as with all GPS applications, is the challenge with such a convenience. In my experience of walking one complete block, my battery went from a starting 98 percent to 86 percent. Breakdown: Some may find the rough edges of the interface and lack of supporting documentation intimidating. For those willing to tinker and explore with VoiceOver will overcome these issues. There are a lot of settings and variables to play with here, so no shortage of varying degrees of accuracy or results with this GPS application. While there is much more to be said, the price of $2.99 cannot be beat for what is gained for someone visually impaired or blind. The possibility of using this GPS application together with Navigon or Tomtom may open new doors in exceptional accessibility and independence.

Thank you this app rocks, keep up the good work.

I found this app to be very innovative and intuitive. As a person who enjoys traveling, Ariadne GPS has given me a renewed sense of confidence when walking in unfamiliar surroundings. Keep up the great work! Definitely an app worth having!

This app will let you put your finger down on a map & then Voice Over will read you The street name and Street Numbers as you move your finger. It will in that way let you explore what is around you, or explore what is around in another city. It will let you define favorite points of interest and alert you when you are near them. You can get real time monitoring info as you walk with this app, or ride in a car! Therefore you can learn a route people take while driving you somewhere, so you can tell others how to get to that same location. The developer is great and reports in an interview on the Candle Shore Podcast that he is going to work on improving the app by working on it to announce the name of Cross streets when you come to an intersection! So this is so worth it! AT $3.99 US it is some of the best money Ive ever spent!

I was able to find my way home with this awesome app after getting turned around.

This app will provide you with real time updates of your location if you activate the monitor feature and then press the "where am I" button. However, as another reviewer wrote below, the app sometimes fails to mention the name of a street onto which you have turned. In addition, the app is inconsistent at announcing streets that you have crossed. One truly revolutionary feature I would like to see added would be for the app to detect the direction of your movement and to announce the street you are approaching, and the street that is behind you. In other words, an audio summary that is equivalent to the "look around" function. In addition, there does not appear to be any method of zooming in or zooming out on the map. I would really like to zoom in on the map so that only a few streets are visible at a time. Finally, I think that adding audio tones to the map would make finding the lines that represent the streets a bit easier.

The most accurate maps I have found. Would be five stars with points of interest added and turn by turn directions.

This is one of the best GPS apps I have come across. I like the ability to explore where you are at on a nap virtually. The monitor function is pretty neat too, it seems the most accurate when I am walking.

Its a touchable, interactive, talking map. Its a talking tour guide when youre walking outdoors or riding in a vehicle. Its an orientation tool that will remember places that youve been, and help you to find them again. Its accessible map is an unique and innovative feature. The ability to pull out your device anywhere, and instantly be able to feel the arrangement of streets, regions, even cities, is an amazing orientation aid. It would be nice if this app could integrate with other GPS apps, though. For example, this app need not directly include turn by turn directions, but it would be great if you could select a place on the map, and have this app open another GPS app to provide that info. Ive seen other apps that can open Navigon, so its possible. Still, this app does a great job at what it is designed to do, and is well worth the cost.

This is a really great app for helping to navigate through streets blocks cities et cetera. Thank you so much! For developing this app. It has helped me get around. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I want to express my deepest feelings of love & gratitude to the apps developer, & to Apple for this outstanding & life transforming app. Ive always been an adventurous type of man despite my visual impairment, always willing to take walks on my own around the neighborhood but this app just made it 100% times better. It is thanks to Ariadne & voice over that I now know many things more about my neighborhood that I knew before. The work of both companies have inspired me to utterly declare myself king of the neighborhood because I can now go where ever I want with the confidence powered by having such a reliable GPS. this app is worth every penny, Im sure you will agree once you buy it. Thanks again, love be with you all!

This app is the absolute best app for people that have visual impairments. Im excited to be one of these people who have this app, and Im excited to see what the future brings within the maps application in iOS six.

This app is very accessible for visually impaired and blind users is a fantastic GPS tool thank you for developing