Hawaii Big Island Full GyPSy

Gave the app a try today with my wife and son it's so cool to be able to do a driving tour at our own pace.

Bought it on recommendation of a friend. We loved it, my 7 yo daughter actual kept headphones off to listen to the guide instead of her games

This app is simply brilliant! My wife and I are using it for the first time on the big island. Not only does it provide interesting narratives about all types of subjects, but it gives better directions than my GPS!! It's like having an Uncle who knows all the cool things to do giving you a tour! Can't wait to try the other tours!!

Worked great for us.  My whole family enjoyed the stories and information as we drove.  We would have missed so much without it.  We also used the one on Maui and it was excellent too. Highly recommended - we hope they do more.

Totally worth the money. A few minor glitches but otherwise very informative and helpful I'm finding local attractions and especially points of interest. The initial interface could be better (IMO)

Loved this app!

Loved it. The family & I have downloaded a few of the Gypsy tours for Hawaii and have enjoyed them all. Great suggestions for places to stop.

Sorry I spent the $8. This app was useless when I toured the Island in a clockwise direction. It's designed to work for a tour in the counter clockwise direction.

I was skeptical to pay the $7 for this app, but it was worth every penny. Very good information about the Big Island. Was like having our own personal tour guide. Told us good places to stop and it gave excellent historical information.

I wouldn't recommend this app. When we could get it to work, the info was good. But most of the time it couldn't find our location. And if my screen turned off, the app would disconnect and I would have to open and start the tour over (and hope it would find our location again). Never could get this operational on our travels up the north coast and we gave up on it. So we ended up only using it for the volcano area. I feel gypped. Response to developer: The phone settings didn't change and sometimes the location was found and other times the circle just kept going around and around. And I never operated it in preview mode. I did, however press the power button to shut down the screen because my battery was being drained so fast. I guess shutting down the screen must disconnect from the tour.

We've been delighted by this app. It was very informative and entertaining. Even our 11 and 13 year old enjoyed it, making fun of some expressions, like "well done!" exclaimed gleefully, after I made the right turn. Highly recommended if your going to tour the island. Suggestion: let us hear all the history commentaries we haven't heard, as we won't cover every tour, but would like to listen to all the historical bits.

We loved the Big Island Full Tour on our recent stay in Kona. I rarely pay for an app. This was worth the $$! We listened and drove about 90% of the tours with a car load of 5 people. It was so much fun! Directions, history, sites to see, notes on culture, Hawaiin language, and suggestions for shopping and stops that only a local would know. Just WOW! One negative, I was connecting by Blue Tooth with a Galaxy S3. There was a delay evertime we hit a naration, so that I would have to rewind to hear the first part. I wonder if that wouldn't happen with a newer phone or if I had brought my AUX cable and connected directly? The rental car did not like my phone through USB. Another minor probelm was my phone had trouble keeping a charge with GPS, Blue Tooth and the Screen on full time. But my phone is old, even charging, it died and couldn't keep up a few times. The narrator was great. It was like we had a new buddy in the car helping us out. There were some funny things to a USA ear however. The app is from a Canadian company, The narrator pronounced LAVA with a long first "A", says "car park" for parking lot and "anti-clockwise" for counter clockwise which made us all giggle.

We listened to the whole tour. The commentary was informative and entertaining. We are leaving Hawaii with a greater appreciation of the land and history than we could have imagined. Wish we had listened to the Maui tour. Can't wait for the next adventure!

This app is simply brilliant! My wife and I are using it for the first time on the big island. Not only does it provide interesting narratives about all types of subjects, but it gives better directions than my GPS!! It's like having an Uncle who knows all the cool things to do giving you a tour! Can't wait to try the other tours!!

Worth every penny. Had to tap grey textbox START DRIVING TOUR to activate automatic guide. Used car's usb port to keep powered. Very informative and entertaining. Provides alerts to upcoming points of interest, very useful since not a lot of road signs are very obvious. Visited almost all of the suggested sites, had a great time.

Tried it for last 2 days on Hawaii and all it did was kill my battery. Went for almost an hour approaching Hilo without it giving any information. When it finally did speak, it told about places we had long passed. Just turned it off after that. Waste of money!

This is an amazing app. Easy to install. Informative, accurate, and amusing. It turned a routine drive into an adventure. Nice job!

Worked great for us.  My whole family enjoyed the stories and information as we drove.  We would have missed so much without it.  We also used the one on Maui and it was excellent too. Highly recommended - we hope they do more.

When that app works, it's great. I have a Note 2 and the app repeatedly crashed. The commentary didn't start automatically when driving clockwise,and we had to start it manually. Going counterclockwise around the big Island the guide came on fine, except when it didn't (and crashed). Sorry developers you seem to have a great product, just didn't work out for us.

This helped us to see and learn so much and saved us money we would have otherwise spent on a tour.It allowed us the flexibility set our own schedule.Well worth the price, and then some.We'll use gypsy for every future travel destination it's available. Helpful advice on what to stop and see and how long it would take, and what we could skip if short on time. I really wish you could preview the map and listen to the tour without actually being at the spot.That would have helped us to plan our trip/day.

Does not narrate as you drive. You have to click on links as you drive (really safe!!) and when your screen shuts off so does the app. Sorry I spent the money. Learn from my mistake.

We thought this app was brilliant for when we were driving around the Big Island. We named him Mortimer and he told us places to stop at that we wouldn't have known about and great Hawaiian history stories when we drove back from Volcano National Park. The GyPSy Guide really made our trip!

My girlfriend and I recently used this app whilst touring around the Big Island and found it very easy to use and excellent value for money. We loved learning about the nation and history as well as being shown some really magnificent sights! We can't wait to download the Banff apps when we go there later this year! Thank you GyPSy!

We loved this guide on our recent visit...really excellent... Only suggestion would be to include a way to reverse the journey direction

Not only did it tell us about the various poonts of interest along the way, after dark on the long drive back to Kona it have an interesting background about the history of Hawaii. We will buy the one for Maui when we arrive there later today.