Bonaventure Cemetery Tours

• Price: $5.99

Last verified 28 Jul 2026

2.6 38 ratings · App Store

1. 2/5Not so great

   This app was incredibly frustrating. It assumes you are beginning near the museum at the entrance. If you aren’t you end up backtracking to find the first site. The directions aren’t always clear, narration begins when you aren’t yet at the site. If the app could find my location, why can’t it find where I am when I’m first starting and begin my tour from my location? The narration that we managed to get in the right place was very informative. Definitely cheaper than paying for a tour, and the money goes to help keep the cemetery up but, the app needs some refinement to be really useful.

   30nicknames · 28 Jul 2026

2. 1/5Useless

   I assumed this was legit because it wasn’t a third party app and was provided by Bonaventure itself. It is not worth downloading. The map GPS was accurate and we could use the map to see our location as we walked. No problem there. The narration never worked properly, however. It started automatically as we approached the intended spots, but not once did the narration match the graves where we stood. We stood beside Mercer’s grave and listened to a paid tour that arrived after us. When I restarted the app after they left, the app talked about another site not even in section H. Despite the map indicator showing our location at JM’s family plot correctly. I tried manually searching for the correct sections, but the app overrides input and returns to what it wants. Also, the narration starts as if you are still driving in by giving road directions, but it’s too fast to be useful and completely unnecessary as you are already there. Since it’s labeled as a Welcome section, why would I need driving directions? It also assumes you stopped just inside the entrance by the building to start. We didn’t and neither did the other car trying to use this app at the parking lot by the river. Their app too did not work as intended. I bought this so we could tour the grounds slowly due to limited mobility. As someone with a decade of professional app development and testing experience, this is a waste. I would lose my current job if I put this out for the public. Anyone saying they love it needs to provide proof of actual practical use. What good is quality history narrative if it’s presented in such a way that you can’t access it in real time. I only gave one star because at least I could use it to find Johnny Mercer’s grave site on the map. So essentially I just paid a dollar a minute for use. Rip off.

   Rufous99 · 28 Jul 2026

3. 4/5Little pricey but cheaper than a tour

   It’s a lot cheaper than a tour and had great information and fun facts that many of the other tours I’ve been on never mentioned. The person that mentioned it was narrow minded clearly didn’t go to the Jewish ones on the map because they were ones on there. “It’s rich white people” I don’t see how the tour guides could help that and the cemetery started from a group of rich white families in the 1800s, I’m not sure what diversity you expected to see. Anyways, I really enjoyed the different voices that told the stories as well. It’s not super accurate on the map locations but the voices tell you where to go next and with the names on all the plots it’s impossible not to find and gave us a game to find the next one so it wasn’t that difficult, people complaining are being a little ridiculous it’s not like it has to be there or it won’t play...

   Quo doesn't love this movie? · 28 Jul 2026

4. 1/5Poorly designed app. Doesn’t work well.

   I hope some of this info finds its way to the developers to fix the App, because we love Bonaventure and have been there 3 times and are looking forward to a better tour next time… The info presented in the app is just OK. Informative but Not presented in a way that keeps you interested. Instead of 20 different monotone script readers, get someone with some excitement who loves to tell you about what you’re seeing. But the biggest problems are with the App itself. The navigation to each grave site and between sites is very poor. Transitions are awful. Navigation tries to use location sensing to pop up an audio when you are near something but it doesn’t work 90% of the time. Finding your way between sites leaves you wandering and wondering. The narrative describes how to get there but the narratives can only get you there if you’ve found the site immediately preceding and unlike the gravesite audios, the site transition narratives can’t be found on their own. They should include these transitions in the list of audio narratives of the gravesites which are easily accessible. Navigation using the JPEG of their map is about the only way to really find your way around, and I would never have made it otherwise, but with the technology available today like any Apple/Google/Waze location sensing mapping software with walking directions, I expected a lot more from this. Lastly, the first audio narration with highway directions of how to get to Bonaventure Cemetery is is on EVERY page. Hit the wrong audio button at any gravesite or route and you’re back to the beginning … reset… and again listening to the directions to the Cemetery! Then you have to find your place in the tour again. The App will leave you frustrated.

   Stop with the Ads already · 28 Jul 2026

5. 5/5A must have for a DIY Bonaventure Tour

   I gave this a 5 star to balance out some of the haters that might dissuade you from trying this. The GPS-aided map works fine to navigate you to all the must-sees and provided useful insights. Yes, it could be optimized as some reviews suggested, but it really works well and made our trip to Bonaventure a highlight of our Savannah vacation. I don’t regret not shelling out $36 a head instead for a one hour golf cart tour. We got to go at our own pace and saw everything up close and took great pictures.

   BCRushfan2112 · 28 Jul 2026

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