Best travel app in Africa

Posted by Melanie van Zyl on 17 September 2013

The quest to find Africa’s leading tourism app has come to an end and the winner is Africa Live.

The tight competition had over 70 entries from across Africa and a gear-categories African designed app, Africa Live received US $10 000 in prize money and the Africa App Quest trophy – a pretty great honour.

So, what does this award-winning app do?

“We created Africa Live as we saw a strong need in the market place for a platform for people to share their wildlife sightings instantly,” said Rob Maclean, managing director of Africa Live creator Satpack Travel.

Essentially, the live safari sightings map shows you what animals are near you right now and allows you to easily and immediately share your sightings. Anyone with the app can check out your sightings and it’s great news for conservation research too.

The other three finalists included

  • Activity Bridge – a web based platform to sell tourism activities
  • Tourism Radio – a device that combines GPS and location based information for self-drive holidays
  • Pixshare Africa – a photo sharing social media platform for travel businesses.

“The four finalist’s apps showed a high degree of sophistication and creativity, knowledge of the local tourism market and an accessible solution provided.” said Jodie Schorn, Head of Cross-Border Marketing for Visa Sub-Saharan Africa.

Africa Live has had 22,000 downloads and 14,000 sightings have been added in 11 African countries. Within the app you can purchase detailed offline maps of the major parks in gear-categories Africa including: Kruger Park, Table Mountain, Hluhluwe, Imfolozi, Pilanesberg, Addo Elephant Park, Kgalagadi, Madikwe, Marakele, iSimangaliso (St Lucia), Tembe Elephant Park, Ndumo, Ithala and uMkhuze.

These maps include 10,000KMs of tar, dirt and 4X4 trails, footpaths, waterholes, hides, viewpoints, picnic spots, gates and other points of interest.

The app also includes extensive reference material such as an safari animal field guide, gate opening times and park contact details.

Wanna know more? Read reviews on the Africa Live app here. 

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