Wise Pilgrim Camino Francés

Wise Pilgrim Camino Francés

A Camino de Santiago Guidebook

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price
$4.99
Reviews
3.7 (33)
United States United States
Description
A Camino de Santiago Guidebook
No Signup.  No Login. Celebrating its 12th year as a mobile app, and their 14th online, the Wise Pilgrim Guides are the go-to source of up-to-date information on the Camino de Santiago.

The app is updated regularly with new content and new features and offers you the ability to leave tips for pilgrims following behind you.

This guide covers the Camino Francés, the most popular route across Spain. It has been redesigned and now works almost exclusively offline (to share your comments with others will require a data connection).  As more an more albergues share their WiFi this becomes less of an issue, and the guide will tell you which ones offer WiFi.

Accommodation Directory:  A full directory of Albergues, camping, hotels, pensions, paradors, and cases rurales.  Over 900 in total, with special attention to those that can be booked online.

Stageless Guide: No more "stage anxiety" or guide created bottlenecks.

Maps:  Offline and online versions of a beautiful topographical may will give you a good view of the terrain ahead.

Photos: Photos of albergues, monuments and other points of interest along the way.  Currently 900+ images and growing.

Scrollable Elevation Map:  This one is hard to show with just a screenshot, but the elevation that appears at the top of every city page scrolls East to West.  One complete elevation, from St. Jean Pied de Port to Santiago, uninterrupted by page folds.

Comments:  Albergue closed early for the season?  Have a restaurant that you want to share, or perhaps one to warn others about?  Every location in the app gives you the opportunity to leave a comment and to read the comments left by others. No registration necessary.

¡Buen Camino and thank you for your support!
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Invaluable app

Thanks Michael, for all your Wise Pilgrim work!

Blue moon eMon, Apr 10, 2023
United StatesUnited States

Excellent app for the Camino

I used this app extensively for my Camino in Fall 2022. I’m heading back again and will be using it to book and navigate my way again. Easy to use, love the elevation maps, and the ways it’s organized. If you miss an arrow, it’s a lifesaver to be able to see where you are in real time and compare your actual location to where you want to be in the trail.

lucina 06Sun, Mar 26, 2023
United StatesUnited States

Easy to use, helped me get back on track

Used this app for 500 miles. I used it daily. I was able to see when I deviated from the path a few times and the reviews for paths, lodging and cafes was very helpful. I could link to wahstsapp numbers for lodging to call ahead for a bed. Developer is very responsive to feedback. I’ll use the portugal version for my next camino.

sha chicagoSat, Mar 25, 2023
United StatesUnited States

Super-useful walking aid

Most useful for me were the offline map and the user albergue reviews. The first helped me numerous times to keep my bearings even when I couldn’t count on a cellular connection. The camino is well-marked but even so there are plenty of points when I got a little turned around, and this offline map helped me get back on track. The second was invaluable for choosing where to stay at night. I didn’t always choose only based on this guide but I often benefited from warnings of a bedbug issue or else just glowing comments about a given albergue. It lef me to many wonderful places and people. A third praiseworthy thing that occurs to me is the local historical and cultural info given on many towns. It gave me things to look out for or ways to appreciate where I was and what I was seeing. This context offered good reminders since it was often easy to forget about everything except the matter of walking, eating, and sleeping (of course that was good in its own way). I did use a print guide also and google from time to time so I cannot say what a Camino would be like using only this app guide. Regardless, I am very glad I had it (I still look at it from time to time to remember the experience).

CaminandoSiempreFri, Jul 10, 2020
United StatesUnited States

Not ready for prime time

A little bit more development would have made this a great app. It appears to have been rushed to market without a final proof. Lots of distance errors, the online map is worthless because the map symbols overlay the route making it impossible to use. Distance to any destination apparently is as the crow flies, not matching the apps text descriptions. It is necessary to drag along a competitive guide to double check whatever this guide tells you. That makes this guide redundant in the overall scheme.

Miguel CamineroTue, Oct 9, 2018
United StatesUnited States

exactly what I needed!

I walked part of the Camino in June 2018 and found this app incredibly helpful overall! Unlike many other pilgrims, I did not have to stop and unpack a bulky guidebook every time I wanted to check distances or find the closest bar. All I had to do was pull out my phone and voila! Overall, I found the descriptions of albergues/towns and the route of the camino itself very accurate. Some of the prices of the albergues were slightly different but otherwise everything was great and I did not have any surprises. I also found the elevation profile very helpful for quickly visualizing distance between pueblos and the amenities offered. The online map was also very useful. For some reason, my phone tracks my GPS location accurately even on airplane mode without wifi so I was always able to know exactly where I was on the map. The map itself was very accurate. The only small annoying thing was that every time you open it, it resets to the standard starting place. Overall, I would recommend this app to anyone looking to get accurate maps and information about albergues and pueblos along the way. I found it to be a very good, and often more up-to-date alternative to carrying around a heavy guidebook. 10/10 :)

iheartspaceThu, Jun 21, 2018
United StatesUnited States

Crashes too much to be relied upon

The app includes decent information from what I've been able to gauge. But the app crashes more than 50% of the time. There are times when you cannot get it to work when you need to make a decision about the way to go. You just can't count on it...

turtletaleSun, May 6, 2018
United StatesUnited States
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About
Bundle Id
com.wisepilgrim.caminofrances
Min Os. Version
12.0
Release Date
Wed, Jun 20, 2012
Update Date
Tue, Feb 27, 2024
Content Rating
4+
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
No
Support Siri
No
File Size
141.17MB
Has Game Center
No
Family Sharing
Yes
Support Passbook
No
Supported Languages
English
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What's New
version
5.8.2
updated
1 month ago
Big update in anticipation of the upcoming year.
Commenting fixed, thank you everyone for submitting bug reports, it was invaluable to getting this fixed.
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