AI Walking Tours · Anywhere
Search any place and get a personalized walking tour with a voice guide who knows every corner — and answers anything you ask, by voice or chat, with images.
Coming to mobile
The promise
You round a corner into a sunlit square, a façade catching gold, fado drifting from a doorway — and it passes by unexplained. Most places have no plaque, no guide, no one to lean in and say here's why this matters.
travltime turns any walk into a guided one. Search a city, a sleepy backstreet, the village you grew up in — and a warm voice walks beside you, narrating each stop, grounded in real facts, ready to answer whatever catches your eye. No booking, no schedule, no rush. Just the story of the ground beneath your feet, the moment you arrive.
In your ears, right here
“These azulejo tiles weren't just decoration…”
How it works
Search, and seconds later you're walking — a grounded itinerary in your pocket and a warm voice in your ears. No planning, no schedules, no waiting on a guide.
Type a city, a neighborhood, or a single landmark — anywhere on earth — then pick what you love, from street food to architecture to hidden history.
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In seconds, a personalized walking route takes shape — stop by stop, paced to your time, with every fact drawn from real sources and cited. Never made up.
Follow turn-by-turn as a warm voice narrates each stop — hands-free, eyes up. Curious about a doorway or a façade? Ask anything by voice or chat, anytime.
One search becomes a guided walk — start to finish, anywhere you stand.
A real tour, generated live
A riverside loop through Baixa's royal squares, monuments, and the great arch — every word below was written by travltime from a single search.
Plaza in Lisbon, Portugal
Narrated · ~57 sec
“You begin where Lisboa meets the water, in the vast, open embrace of the Praça do Comércio — though locals still call it the Terreiro do Paço. Stand a moment and let the scale settle over you: one of the largest plazas in all of Portugal, harbour-facing, the threshold where the city greeted the river Tagus and, beyond it, the wider world.”
Former royal palace · 1498–1755
Narrated · ~58 sec
“Drift toward the riverside edge of the square, and imagine the ground beneath your feet bearing the weight of a vanished palace. For some two hundred and fifty years, the Ribeira Palace stood here as the main residence of the Kings of Portugal — rebuilt and reshaped again and again, from the ornate Manueline manner through Mannerist and finally Baroque forms.”
Seat of the Lisbon municipal government
Narrated · ~57 sec
“Step back to take in its neoclassical façade, composed and dignified. Your eye is meant to climb to the central balcony, crowned by a large pediment carrying sculptures by the artist Calmels, while four round oculi punctuate the front like watchful eyes — civic government given a face of beauty and permanence.”
Memorial arch · Praça do Comércio
Narrated · ~59 sec
“Our walk comes full circle, where the Rua Augusta Arch rises as a triumphant gateway. This grand stone monument was raised to commemorate Lisboa's reconstruction after the catastrophic earthquake of 1755 — crowned by an allegorical group by the French sculptor Célestin Anatole Calmels, depicting Glory rewarding Valor and Genius.”
Generated by travltime from a single search — grounded in real sources, never made up.
Your city is next
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Old audio guides hand you the same recorded script for a handful of famous cities. This is a living guide — anywhere on earth, shaped to you, and grounded in real facts.
Not a catalog of thirty cities. Any city, town, neighborhood, or back street on earth — your tour is generated on demand, the moment you search.
Real facts, drawn from real sources and cited — never invented. Tap any claim to see where it came from. History you can trust.
Warm, natural narration as you walk — hands free, eyes up, no reading required. A guide right there with you, picking up the story at every corner.
Curious about that tiled façade or who lived behind it? Ask by voice or chat and get a grounded answer back — with images to match what you see.
Into food, architecture, hidden history, or just a slow wander? Your tour bends to your interests, your time, and your pace — never a one-size-fits-all script.
It knows where you are and where the story goes next — gently pointing the way from stop to stop, so you keep your eyes on the street, not on a map.
You asked"Why are so many buildings covered in tiles?"
Those are azulejos — glazed ceramic tiles Lisbon embraced in the 16th century, after the craft arrived from Seville. They were as practical as they were beautiful: they shrug off the Atlantic damp, throw back the harsh summer sun, and outlasted the great 1755 earthquake when plaster crumbled. Look up as we climb — every façade tells a slightly different story.
Ask anything
Curious about that tiled façade, the saint above the doorway, what's worth eating two streets over? Just ask — out loud or by typing — and your guide answers in the moment, with real facts and a picture to match. No tapping through menus. No guesswork.
Eyes up, phone in your pocket. Ask out loud and a warm voice replies — so you're watching the city, not a screen.
On a packed tram or a silent gallery? Type instead. Same guide, same depth — and every answer can carry an image.
Answers are drawn from real sources and cited — so what you hear is the true story of the street, not a confident guess.
Everywhere you go
Most audio guides stop at a handful of famous capitals. travltime works for any city, town, neighborhood, or back street on earth — a tour generated on demand, the moment you search.
If it has streets and stories, travltime has a tour.
Fixed-catalog apps
A short list of famous cities.
Pre-recorded routes through the same dozen capitals. Off the list, off the map.
travltime
Anywhere you can stand.
Search a side street in a town you've never heard of — and start walking with a guide.
No fixed catalog
Every corner has a story
Early wanderers
The kind of walk where you slow down, look up, and finally hear the story the street has been keeping. Here's how it feels in their words.
I wandered into a town I'd never planned to visit and had a guide in my ears within a minute. It pointed out a doorway I'd have walked straight past — and then told me exactly why it mattered.
I kept stopping to ask "wait, what's that?" and it just answered — out loud, with a photo, and a source I could check. It never felt made up, and it never rushed me to the next stop.
We had two free hours and no plan. It built a route shaped around food and tiny markets — exactly our thing — and narrated it as we strolled. Best afternoon of the whole trip, and nobody had to read a thing.
Illustrative — beta testimonials
Try a full sample tour for nothing. Upgrade only when you want the voice guide in your ears on every walk. Pricing below is indicative — we'll set the real numbers as the beta opens.
Free forever
A taste of the magic — wander one tour and meet your guide, on us.
The full companion
Unlimited tours and a warm voice guide who walks every street with you.
beta pricing — TBD
No subscription
Just passing through? Unlock one city for the length of your visit.
beta pricing — TBD
Prices shown are indicative and not yet final. Beta members help shape them — and lock in early-bird pricing. Join the beta to be first in line.
Almost certainly. travltime isn't a fixed catalogue of thirty tourist cities — tours are generated on demand for any place that has streets and a story. A world capital, a seaside town, a single historic neighborhood, even the block you grew up on. Search it, and your guide builds a walk.
Naturally, somewhere with deep, well-documented history will have a richer tour than a brand-new suburb — but if there's something worth knowing, your guide will find it and tell you where it came from.
This is the part we care about most. Your guide is grounded — every stop is built from real, retrieved sources rather than invented on the fly. We draw on encyclopedic references, public records, cultural and heritage archives, and reputable travel writing, then weave them into a story you'd actually want to hear.
Each claim carries its receipts: tap a stop or an answer and you can see the sources it was drawn from, so you can verify anything and read deeper if a place grabs you. If the record is thin or uncertain, your guide says so plainly instead of filling the gap with a tall tale.
Honestly? Generating a fresh tour and asking brand-new questions both need a connection — that's where the live grounding happens. So we won't pretend it's fully offline.
But we know walks happen in spotty-signal alleys and abroad on a tight data plan, so you can pre-load a tour before you set out — narration and stops downloaded and ready in your pocket. Once it's loaded, walking and listening keep working even when the bars don't. Deeper offline support for follow-up questions is on the roadmap.
That's the whole idea — eyes up, phone away. Your guide narrates each stop straight into your ears, and when something catches your eye you can just ask out loud and get a spoken answer back. No squinting at a screen mid-stride, no thumbing through a map.
Prefer to keep it quiet on a busy street? Everything works as a chat too, so you can type a question and read the reply — with images — whenever voice isn't the moment.
A fraction of a human guided tour — and it never rushes you or watches the clock. You'll be able to start free and wander a little on the house, with a subscription for unlimited tours, full voice narration, and ask-anything, plus a one-time option for a single city if you'd rather not subscribe.
Exact prices are still being set for launch — we'll mark everything clearly as beta pricing — TBD, and beta members help us land it somewhere fair. See the pricing tiers for the shape of it.
We're in private beta right now, polishing the voice and the grounding before a wider release. iOS comes first, with Android close behind — both shown as "coming soon" until the stores go live.
Getting in is simple: join the beta waitlist with your email and we'll send an invite as spots open, earliest members first. No spam, no commitment — just an early seat for the curious.
Join the beta and be among the first to wander anywhere with a voice guide who knows every corner — and answers anything you ask.
No spam, ever — just one note when the beta opens.