Cité Mémoire app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 2016 ratings )

Travel Entertainment
Developer: Montréal en Histoires

Free

Current version: 5.0.0, last update: 9 months ago
First release : 13 Jul 2015
App size: 96.15 Mb

Cité Mémoire is a poetic creation inspired by the history of Montreal. It will lead you to fascinating encounters with both unknown and famous characters who bring to life the richness and complexity of Montreal through time.

Roam the streets of Montreal with this application to immerse yourself in the city’s history, with over 60 unique items to discover (points of interest and augmented reality segments).

At night, enjoy Cité Mémoire’s twenty different projected tableaux created by Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon in collaboration with Michel Marc Bouchard.

Before your visit, download this application and its content (entirely or one circuit at a time).

• Have your headphones handy and a fully-charged device (mobile phone or tablet) for the best experience
• Techno-historic tours for daytime or nighttime, depending on your availability
• Soundtrack for Cité Mémoire installations and historical content associated with each one
• Free Wi-Fi zone
• Choice of four languages (installed in the language of your device): French, English, Spanish, and Mandarin
• Detailed geolocalized map
• Signage in the city to help you get your bearings

Featured circuits:

• Cité Mémoire: Visuals, words and music combine in more than 20 tableaux projected onto façades across the city. Every night at dusk! Created by Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon, in collaboration with Michel Marc Bouchard.
• Cité Mémoire Charlevoix : More than 70 new digital contents to discover the history, the characters and the events which shaped the region.
• 5+ thematic circuits: Unique digital journeys that take you through the periods, events, figures, buildings and sites that helped shape Montréal’s history.

Download the app and its content on your smart phone or tablet to add a little something to your next walk:

1. Use our detailed geolocated map to explore random spots or follow a themed circuit
2. Content available in French, English, Spanish and Mandarin

Pros and cons of Cité Mémoire app for iPhone and iPad

Cité Mémoire app good for

Such a fun and educational way to get to know Montreal. The augmented realities are insande! Bravo Montréal en Histoires

You MUST at least do one of the 30 minute night circuits if youre in town. The projections on the walls of buildings look fantastic. Do this with an iPad if you can. The extra large screen improves the experience, and youll need the battery life. Daytime circuit is less visually amazing but still a fun way to spend an afternoon learning about Montreal. A few minor ways this app could be improved: 1) Say which direction to face. We did the first stop of the northern (red) 30 minute day circuit facing the wrong direction, so the picture wasnt as cool. 2) Make the starting address easy to copy & paste into a maps application to get directions to the starting place. 3) The app isnt stable in the background, so if you stop for a coffee you have to reload and click though to get back to where you left off.

Some bad moments

This is a hot mess. Its slow, confusing, and nags you with warnings and confirmation pop ups every time you touch the screen. I can just hear the inane and unending discussions of the self-absorbed development team who worked on it. They thought they were delivering a polished gem but its obvious that they put zero effort into real-world usability.

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