HYPERDIA by VOICE App Reviews

Keep getting a white screen and no possibility to do anything...

Ne fonctionne pas sous iOS 5 / iPhone 4

Soooo expensive for such an app...

Please fix it !!! Its not working anymore with ios7 and I paid for it !!!

I installed the app to see what it looks like and when I opened it it tells me I have 30 day of free use... Ill be in Tokyo in 32 days for 10 days so its no use to me an it isnt worth buying for 10 days only... Too bad

Cannot change the setting, even if I select 英語 in the language menu, its still in Japanese... Not really easy to use if you do not master the language and totally useless if you cannot read it at all.

While Google Maps offer an improved experience in that regard. Hyperdia has more information available regarding JR lines/Shinkansen. But it is limited to 30 days of free usage, there’s work around though. Also the app crashes, or made my iphone crash when I went back to the app on a previously selected travel but this time no wifi available; I worked around this by making screens its.

Using the Japan Railpass You can go everywhere anytime. Planning all trips is easy and fun. In a second you get a perfect schedule, make a screenshot, walk to a JR station, show your schedule on the screen and JR will provide you with reservation tickets.

I just download the app and paid an extra $3,99 to have the English version, but the app is only showing in Japanese. Very disappointing and I lost my money.

Now with full functionality, this app has gone from my original 1 star rating to 3. While I still dont find the voice function at all useful, a truely AWESOME feature is the realtime autocorrect for typing station names in romaji. For a traveller with no experience in spelling in Japanese, this will be very handy indeed. Foreigners who will be here less than a month will find this app very useful in helping them navigate the extensive Japanese rail system. However, for those of us who live here, and who can read and type kanji, there are other apps out there which are a lot more free than this pricey option (after the trial period).

Just search for "train times Japan" on the internet and you can find a site that does everything this app does and its free forever.

I have nothing positve to say. Why waste time bring unfinished unusable Apps like this to the market. I am voice trained and speak clear English but it could not get any of 15 stations I attempted. Hyperdia should just have real Iphone app.

This app is pointless. The only advantage over the hyperdia website would be voice search but that is too hit and miss to be of any use. I thought It was because of my non-native Japanese pronounciation/intonation but when I asked a Japanese colleague to try they also got bad results. Surely Hitachi know this, so why even release it? I cant believe anyone would pay money for this software as it is. They should either just make a mobile page of the website, or make a simple, free offline app with the same function as the website.

Bought the iphone version. Frequently it returns "there is no path" as an error when checking for train times. Example : Shibuya to Shinagawa - an easy route on the Yamanote line. Odawara to Shinjuku, another simple route ). Sometimes it wont even recognise a station such as "Shinagawa" and will force you to enter the wrong station name. Restarting the app, changing from wi-fi to 3G or vice versa makes no difference. Sometimes it pauses for over a minute then crashes. This misbehaviour can last for literally hours. It does actually work from time to time but overall I find it so unreliable it is unusable. The website version always works, is free, is perfectly usable from iPhone Safari, and as you still need an internet connection to use the iphone app anyway, it is no less portable. I wish I had not wasted my money. I expect the developers will fix the issues at some point, but my 350 yen "purchase" only lasts for 30 days so I am unlikely to be a beneficiary. Save your money, use the website.

thanks for this

Thought it was great, until I had to explain to my boss that I was 45 minutes late due to incorrect train stops listed in this app. Never had that problem in the 2 years I used a similar service.

I have this app and Ekitan---all Japanese version----installed on my phone. And I use the Ekitan all Japanese even though I have to ask the person next to me to read kanji. The Ekitan tells me quickly. It accepts the station name spellings that I type in. This one does not. And this one does not understand my Southern USA accent so I cannot use voice. Buy Ekitan! All Japanese! Its cheaper and much better for gaijin!

Website doesnt work anymore. Being forced to use app. Will try something else.

How in the world anyone want to pay for this every month or every year? I did use for a month for free, after that is highway robbery!!!

I dont understand! Why do you want us to pay for an app when it is free if we have the Internet? Also, its purely discriminatory that you decide to have English speakers pay more than Japanese speakers. このアプリは有料でもインターネットで見たら無料なのはよく分かりません。そして、日本語と英語のクーポンの価格は絶対違います。変じゃないんですか？差別みたいじゃない？ このクーポンの制度を変更しなかったら、日本人、来国外国人のiOSを使っている方々はジョルダンに変えてしまうよ。ジョルダンだったら、せいぜいアプリが無料だからな。 Unless you change this, resident foreign citizens and Japanese iOS users will stop using your app and switch to Jorudan. at least Jorudan is a free app.