Beautiful Planet HD: Our World app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 4464 ratings )

Travel Photo & Video Education
Developer: Banzai Labs

3.99 USD

Current version: 6.0, last update: 5 years ago
First release : 01 Apr 2010
App size: 1.34 Gb

Beautiful Planet includes 700 map-integrated images spanning seven continents and 170 countries, each with Peters vivid description capturing the moment. * Featured on Wired.com as "One of 5 Sweet Apps for your iPad" and on NBCNews.com as One of 8 Outstanding Apps for Students. * Featured by Apple in Travel Top 10 Staff Picks, App Store Travel Essentials, Staff Favorites, Apps for the Great Outdoors, Planetary Science, and Great Coffee Table Apps! * Includes a fully interactive, zoomable map, beautiful galleries combined with Peter Guttmans poetic writing. * Scholastic.com named Beautiful Planet an app for the "21st Century Classroom" and described it as "a visually stunning photographic tour of 170 different countries".

** Wired.com named Beautiful Planet a Top 10 iPad App they were most excited about!

Each photograph is accompanied by Peter Guttmans description of the moment when each photograph was taken.

Includes a built-in music player to listen to your iTunes music while you use the app.

All at once a savvy encyclopedia of the world, a striking art gallery, an evocative poetry selection and an inspiring travel planner, Beautiful Planet is a lovingly curated, incisively written and joyous portrait of the planet -- a rich resource of knowledge about the wonders of the world around us.

** Reviews of Peter Guttmans work **

* "Stunning images...sumptuous, dramatically lit shots."
-- New York Times

* "One of the premiere travel photographers."
-- CNN

* "Guttmans photographs capture the spirit of a place."
-- Time

* "Such a beautiful vision."
-- CBS This Morning

* "His photographs all seem to glow from an inner light."
-- Dallas Morning News

* "Peter Guttman is a gutsy photographer who has taken pictures all over the world and paints glorious word-pictures with extraordinary photographs."
-- Popular Photography

*** About Peter Guttman ***

Two times named the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year, called a "one-man Explorers Club" in the New York Times, and with zero inhibitions, Peter Guttman has blanketed the planet to create a far-reaching survey of both nearby dazzling landmarks and unknown, intriguing corners of our terrestrial home.

The author and creator of a hardcover award-winning book series for Fodors Travel Publications, an on-air expert for the Travel Channel and A&E Television and the recipient of solo photographic exhibitions at Sothebys and the United Nations, Peter Guttman skillfully introduces the user to the marvels of our planet.

*** Honors and Awards ***

* Twice selected by Apple as an "iTunes Staff Favorite"

* Featured as an "iTunes Rewind 2010 Top Ten in Travel"

* Featured in new iTunes "Classic Coffee Table" section.

* Featured app for the iTunes "Apps for the Great Outdoors" section.

* Winner of the 2010 "Northern Lights Award for Excellence in Travel Journalism and Photography".

* Named one of the Top 5 Summer Vacation Apps by tipb.com

* Proclaimed "One of Five Sweet Apps for your iPad" and one of "Ten Apps Were Excited To Try" by Wired.com

* Named a "Top 10 iPad App for Education" by BrightHub.com

* The Top Selling Travel Photography App in the App Store Travel category

Photographs and image description are Copyright 2012 Peter Guttman and legally licensed by permission of Peter Guttman.

Pros and cons of Beautiful Planet HD: Our World app for iPhone and iPad

Beautiful Planet HD: Our World app good for

This is one of the most amazing apps I have bought!!!! Tne pictures from around the world are first class!!! Its totally worth the money..... Its a steel.

Amazing. And I thought this app was great on the iPhone--On the iPad it is incredible. It truly is spectacular work of travel photography and writing.

This app is pretty sweet. The quality and variety of the pictures are great. I hope he will update it with some more pics eventually.

Love the app and love the photos. Couldnt be better!! My kids are loving the tour of the world via the gorgeous imagery. Keep up the great work!

Images on this app are great, you will really enjoy this app.

Gorgeous pics & fascinating locales!! I love how they display on my iPad, its definitely worth the price! Want to zoom in? Tap the screen & then tap the down arrow icon...the picture currently on the screen automatically gets saved into your photo app. where you can pull it up & zoom in. Awesome!

Some bad moments

You can view photos of this quality for free with other apps, disappointed I wasted 1.99

A national geographic style of photo s, but would ave appreciated more photo s And or more details regarding when how they were shot. Thus more interest and interactivity would have come . Hope to see more...

This a static map with few photos around. No zoom feature for details at all. Thought it would be useful for my kid but not as It appears to be.

This is terrible! You cant zoom in on the different countries? You need a magnifying glass to read the names. Should be a globe you can move and zoom like google earth. I wish I knew this before I downloaded it. Waste of $.

Beautiful images, but navigation is horrendous. Each continent is bundled in a single, linear album. You cant search all the images or even return to the previous image viewed once exiting an album; you must start all over again at the first image if you re-open an album. The app runs in landscape only, yet some images are portrait and you cant change the orientation. Disappointed.

buggy. I bought it because I wanted to enjoy a slideshow. When an image loads and you click for slideshow, it works for a few images then freezes. Also, the app is crashing periodically. disappointed.

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