noTours is, as I wrote, exclusively for sound walks. Their choice for (the more open) android was explicit because of the open source and participative philosophy of this platform.  It is a collective initiative without any commercial intention.
Advantage of noTours is that it is a very stable system with a proven history by a team that worked on it for several years.

Echoes has still some child diseases although it is a very promising platform with an open editor and free app, as well for iOs and integrating text and image/video. It is a commercial initiative but it is announced that I will stay free for use by artists. 

For sound walking noTours is my first choice because of the elaborate possibilities within the editor, the most interesting to my opinion for artistic use.

If you want both iOs and android in the free platform range then you have as well 
http://sonicmaps.org/  which allows you to create sound walks on the go. I didn't use it myself, but I heard from colleagues that it has some stability issues.
and 
http://aporee.org/ which is stable but has a very simple editor 

Geert 


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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:16 AM, vcp <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Thanks for those suggestions Geert.  I looked up both of them to find that NoTours is only on Android. Is there a similar product for Apple phones, anyone?  Echoes works on both Android and iOS.

Valerie

On Feb 22, 2016, at 10:37 PM, Geert Vermeire <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Clare,

The only free editor and app that has all the features you need is (to my knowledge) https://echoes.xyz/
I worked with several platforms and this is the one I would advise you (or to any anybody else interested) if you want video/photo & audio & text all together. 

For sound walking only I can advise www.notours.org, an open source project with as well a free editor and app and an explicit psychogeographic and artists'walking philosophy. I am working already several years with noTours and the noTours team on artistic sound walking projects and workshops in various countries in Europe.  

For any questions you can contact me always directly.

Good luck!

Best wishes,

Geert 

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International projects
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Drops of Breath - Curator Mediterranean Bodies 
France - Greece - Cyprus - Lebanon


On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Clare Qualmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hello dear network, can anyone recommend a free app for making a guided tour on your phone?
I’m looking for something that when triggered would track a route, and then allow the inclusion of photos/video clips/audio clips that would also be recorded (in situ) with the phone, as well as text-based notes.
I’m pretty sure I remember someone showing me something like this at the International Guided Tours Conference in Plymouth in 2011…. 

I want to try using this with a group of students to document their research process during a project.

Thanks!
Clare

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