Toozla, a mobile audio tour/guide app has been selected by Samsung as “App of the year 2012″ in Samsung’s App Store. Samsung has summarized popularity of mobile apps in Samsung App Store (both mobile and tablet platforms put together) with Toozla in top with 5/5 ratings. Other popular apps in the top category includes Angry Birds and Opera Mini.

Toozla is a mobile service that combines GPS with audio tours and stories, user content, and local information.

Travellers can use Toozla to learn more about famous sights, art works, explore the city’s less-known details, independent restaurants, small but exquisite parks, unique shops, theatres and museum exhibits.

Toozla is an all-in-one travel guide for a traveller. Toozla works only when an internet connection is available. As long as you have a GPS enabled mobile with an internet connection, you are good to go.

Overall, it’s a good news that, among all category of apps available in the app store, a travel industry app has attracted most audience.

Chichinkina Alesya, Marketing Director of Toozla says,

“We are pleased with achieved result and are grateful to our users for the acknowledgment. Our application is available for both flagship models on Android platform and for Samsung bada smartphones. Thus the major quantity of Samsung users are able to use Toozla service. And moreover the existence of guides in 16 languages extend borders of the usage of the app. For example, our application is very popular in Spain and Italy, because of availability of the content over there and because of popularity of Samsung bada platform in these countries.”

Mobile audio travel guide market is growing. UK and U.S are matured markets in audio travel guide while in India the trend has just started picking up with companies like Audio Compass, GoPlaces.