# Kiwi Guide

Kiwi Guide is a free iPhone app for planning a road trip around New Zealand’s South Island, built for international visitors doing the classic campervan or rental car trip and for New Zealanders on holiday.

The app has over 500 places across about 40 towns, from Christchurch round the West Coast to Queenstown, Fiordland, the Catlins and back up through Dunedin and Mount Cook. You can browse them town by town or on a map, and each place has photos and a short description written by someone who lives here rather than scraped from a directory. There are 26 ready-made trips, including the South Island in 7, 10, 14 and 21 days and shorter regional ones, each laid out day by day with realistic driving times and the stops in order. If none of those fit, a day-by-day planner lets you build your own trip from the places in the app. A travel guide section covers the things that catch visitors out: driving on New Zealand roads, weather by region, safety, and what each part of the island is like. There’s also a photo share card for posting trip photos.

It’s free with no ads, subscriptions or in-app purchases. An account is required to save trips. Built and maintained by one developer in Auckland.

What I’d most like tested: whether the trip planner makes sense in the first two minutes without any instructions, whether a 14-day trip feels usable as a plan you’d actually follow, and anything that feels slow or confusing on the map. Honest feedback on the App Store listing is welcome too.

## Facts
- Category: Travel
- Platforms: iOS
- Built for: general
- Listed since: November 2026
- Approved tests: 1 (1 total)
- Link: https://kiwiguide.blacksands.app/

## FAQ
### Is Kiwi Guide legit?
Kiwi Guide was listed on IndieAppCircle in November 2026 by Nalin p, who opened it to independent testers. 1 independent tester has used it since and had their feedback accepted by the maker. It is distributed through its own website at kiwiguide.blacksands.app. IndieAppCircle is a peer feedback exchange, not a paid-review site: testers earn credits only for feedback the maker accepts, and nobody is paid to be positive.

### What platforms does Kiwi Guide run on?
Kiwi Guide runs on iOS. The maker built it for a general audience.

### Is Kiwi Guide still looking for testers?
Yes. The maker pays 11 credits for each approved test on IndieAppCircle.

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