National Park Guides - Chimani

National Park Guides - Chimani

By Chimani, Inc.

  • Category: Travel
  • Release Date: 2011-05-23
  • Current Version: 6.0.35
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 138.36 MB
  • Developer: Chimani, Inc.
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 16.0
Score: 4.51613
4.51613
From 930 Ratings

Description

Since 2010 Chimani has been the trusted digital companion for planning and exploring the most visited national parks in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom - and works without an Internet connection! (NEW FEATURE): TRIP PLANNING TOOL • Curated trip itineraries for over 70 national parks • Organize and edit your own trip using our detailed guides • Save time and money with all the details needed to plan your trip in advance. LIVE MAP - REAL-TIME, WAZE-LIKE USER REPORTS • Share with others what you're experiencing in the parks. • View user reports on wildlife, trees & plants, and natural wonders • Let others know about crowds, traffic, parking, hazards, bad weather DETAILED TRAVEL GUIDES WRITTEN BY LOCAL, TRAVEL WRITERS: • Written by professional travel writers (humans), not AI or copied text from the nps.gov website (like our competitors). • Includes local tips on all activities, services, and historical sites in each park. • Download offline maps for GPS-guided exploration. DISCOVER OVER 3,000 PARKS THROUGHOUT YOUR ROAD TRIP • Find parks nearby with ease while traveling to your national park. • Includes every state park, national forest, wildlife refuge, and national monument in the U.S. • Read about the history, highlights, activities, and planning tips for each park. EARN EXCLUSIVE BADGES BY VISITING PARKS • Earn special badges by checking in at parks. • Showcase your park visits with "verified" badges. Chimani currently supports these National Parks in the US, Canada, and United Kingdom: Acadia National Park American Samoa National Park Arches National Park Badlands National Park Banff National Park Big Bend National Park Biscayne National Park Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park Bryce Canyon National Park Canyonlands National Park Capitol Reef National Park Carlsbad Caverns National Park Channel Islands National Park Congaree National Park Crater Lake National Park Cuyahoga Valley National Park Death Valley National Park Denali National Park Dry Tortugas National Park Everglades National Park Gates Of The Arctic National Park Gateway Arch National Park Glacier Bay National Park Glacier National Park Grand Canyon National Park Grand Teton National Park Great Basin National Park Great Sand Dunes National Park Great Smoky Mountains National Park Guadalupe Mountains National Park Haleakala National Park Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Hot Springs National Park Isle Royale National Park Joshua Tree National Park Katmai National Park Kenai Fjords National Park Kings Canyon National Park Kobuk Valley National Park Lake Clark National Park Lake District National Park Lassen Volcanic National Park Mammoth Cave National Park Mesa Verde National Park Mount Rainier National Park North Cascades National Park Olympic National Park Petrified Forest National Park Pinnacles National Park Redwood National and State Parks Rocky Mountain National Park Saguaro National Park Sequoia National Park Shenandoah National Park Theodore Roosevelt National Park Virgin Islands National Park Voyageurs National Park Wind Cave National Park Wrangell-St Elias National Park Yellowstone National Park Yosemite National Park Zion National Park Chimani Subscription is available as an annual subscription for $19.99/month, $29.99/quarter, or $59.99/year. You can subscribe and pay through your iTunes account. Your annual subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renew can be turned off anytime by going to your Account Settings in iTunes after purchase. --- COMPATIBILITY Sign up required to bookmark parks, check in to parks, and back up your data. SUPPORT We love hearing from users! Email us at [email protected] and get a "wicked fast" response! LEGAL Terms of Service: https://www.chimani.com/termsofservice.html Privacy Policy: https://www.chimani.com/privacy.html Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

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Reviews

  • Accidentally renewed subscription, Creator kindly helped with canceling payment

    5
    By Michaela2212
    I got this app for my first camping trip, and I signed up for the free trial and forgot to cancel it before it charged me. I had planned to switch to a cheaper option, but forgot! I email the company and Kerry replied. He was very kind, understood my situation, and helped guide me through cancelling my payment. I plan to keep a less costly subscription for this app, just because the Creator was so kind! As for the usability of the app, I found it very helpful with planning hikes and for navigation. I can tell the Creator put a lot of thought into creating this app. 5 stars!!!
  • Deceiving; very little use for the free version

    1
    By MKJCP12345
    The free NPS app has very similar content on a much easier to use platform… and did I mention free? The adds for this app were deceiving to make it seem like these guides were free, or at least affordable. But $19.99 per month to access park travel guides, which is what is advertised, is very overpriced. Based on other subscribers’ reviews of the paid content, I’ll pass. Without the $19.99/month subscription, the app offers little to no functionality and is not worth the used space on your phone! Do yourselves a favor and download the NPS app. I’ll also add that the developers’ response to some of these reviews and the active deception and hiding of their fees makes me question the morality of the developer… yet another reason why I’m not willing to risk $19.99 to give the paid version a shot. I hope you will also think twice before paying the developer!
  • Nonfunctional

    1
    By Th4t One Chic
    Paid for the subscription. Verified that I’m subscribed but it freezes every time that I try to download the map for offline usage and then prompts me to “start 3 day trial” and then just repeats that I’m already subscribed. Shame.
  • Disingenuous - Hidden $19.99 Monthly Fee

    1
    By Mommy & Bunchie
    I got excited after reading Nikon’s photography challenge. However, when I downloaded the app, they wanted $19.99/month! I do not go to enough parks for that kind of money. It was a little less for 3 months, but still an expensive regular fee. I’m not asking for anything for free, but this was too much for my budget. Best of luck to them. It looks like it would be a cool way to track park experiences.
  • Get the truly FREE NPS App Instead

    1
    By JFONAV
    The free NPS app has the same content, including links to nearby parks/monuments/trails without adding extra unnecessary information. You can also save the NPS parks for offline use. I mean, if you’d like to waste at least $19.99 per month, this is an option, I guess. EDIT: The developer responded, saying I’m putting out misinformation…that the PARK TRAVEL GUIDE app only costs money if you want to access PARK TRAVEL GUIDES. So, thank you Chimani for verifying what I wrote. You DO charge a minimum of $19.99/mo to use the primary functions of your app. LOL EDIT 2: Chimani removed their comment about “misinformation” and changed their claims YET AGAIN. I don’t trust a developer who keeps moving the goalposts and using doublespeak to hide their fees.
  • Chimani

    5
    By wackef
    Very useful,with interesting content
  • Used to be my favorite app

    1
    By Kris Mott
    The “updated” version completely changed all the features that made this a fantastic app and now it’s almost useless. The previous map was great: you could sort by type of national park property (or just view them all) and easily see visited vs. unvisited sites. Yes, I’ve had communications as to how I’m supposed to still be able to do something similar, but let’s be honest, it doesn’t come even close to the functionality of the previous version. Oh so sad. I seldom use the app anymore.
  • Terrible upgrade

    1
    By kornhabs
    Was using this app for nearly 4 years and visited majority of the US while traveling for work. Perfect features for visiting monuments, preserves to National Parks. Absolutely loved this app. Once the new upgrade happened, it’s simple features became a hinderance. Factoring in the pay feature, they had a great system going till they messed it up. Hard to imagine messing up a mayonnaise sandwich but I guess anything is possible.
  • Very little value

    2
    By Quark Gluon Plasma
    The information provided by this app is generic and not very helpful for selecting somewhere to visit and figuring out what to do there. I think you are better off visiting nps.gov and the many excellent travel blogs for actual useful information. There are more specialized apps that are much more useful for hiking. There is something cheap and tawdry about the app’s gamification of visiting national parks, as well as the ads appearing on most screens. UPDATE: I did look at the guides and they are hard to use. Typically, you have a map with many points but few labels, so it’s hard to know or remember what you are looking at. You can also see lists of hikes, waterfalls, et cetera, but there’s no way to put together a coherent picture or plan. Information can be out of date, e.g., the Grove of the Patriarchs at Mt. Ranier is closed with no re-opening date.
  • Great Adventures Wendy

    3
    By BuffaloLocal
    If I want to record a past visit you can’t record multiple days at once with drag and drop…would be much easier if you could.

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