Is There an Oslo Walking Tour App?

There are plenty of self-guided audio apps, and one of the six booked walks bundles a sightseeing app with a live guide. The Best of Oslo walk includes a sightseeing mobile app along with public transport tickets and entry to attractions — and despite what its listing URL says about being self-guided, it has a live guide in front of you. If what you actually want is to walk the route with something in your ear and nobody talking to you, that works too: the route is roughly a kilometre, flat and obvious.

App bundled with a live guideThe Best of Oslo walk

Also bundled thereTransport tickets, attraction entry

Its URL says self-guidedIt is not — there is a guide

Route lengthRoughly a kilometre

Navigation difficultyLow

What an app cannot doAnswer a question

An app is very good at the thing Oslo already makes easy, which is finding the next stop, and much weaker at the thing Oslo actually needs explaining, which is Kvadraturen. Walking through the grid-plan old town with a recording is fine. Walking through it with somebody who can answer the question the recording just raised is better. That is the honest difference, and it is the same difference on the self-guided page.

Insider tip

If you use an app, download the audio before you go out rather than relying on streaming it while standing in the wind on Fridtjof Nansens plass. And use one earbud, not two — the traffic on Karl Johans gate is closer than you think.

The walk that includes an app

Two hours with a live guide, in English or German, plus a sightseeing mobile app, public transport tickets and entry to attractions. Note that the English and German versions meet in different places, so check your confirmation for which applies to you.

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Frequently asked questions

Is there a free walking tour app for Oslo?

Several self-guided audio apps exist and the route is easy to follow without one, since the classic line is roughly a kilometre and flat. They are a different product from a tip-based guided walk, which is a real person paid at the end. How free walking tours work.

Which Oslo tour includes a sightseeing app?

The Best of Oslo walk, which bundles a sightseeing mobile app, public transport tickets and entry to attractions alongside a live guide. It is the most included of the six and also the lowest rated, at 4.6 from 523 reviews. The review explains why.

Is the Best of Oslo tour self-guided?

No, despite what its listing URL suggests. It has a live guide. The app it includes is an extra, not the tour itself. Genuinely self-guided options are a separate choice.