AI audio tours · iPhone beta
Shape a narrated tour around your interests, your time and how you want to get around. Change the stops by talking, listen to their stories and ask your guide along the way.
iPhone beta available by invitation
Available for iPhone
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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 wherever you're headed into a guided tour. Search a city, a sleepy backstreet, the village you grew up in — and a warm voice comes along, 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 place around you, the moment you arrive.
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In your ears, right here
“These azulejo tiles weren't just decoration…”
How it works
Tell your guide what you have in mind. Build an itinerary, make it your own, and listen to the stories along the way. Sign in with Apple or Google to begin.
Name a city, neighborhood or landmark, and tell your guide how you want to get around. Add your interests, from street food to architecture to hidden history.
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Your itinerary takes shape stop by stop, with source links and stories matched to your interests. Building a tour can take a few minutes; review it before you set out.
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Play the introduction and each stop’s story, or keep the app open for arrival guidance. Turn-by-turn directions currently cover Florida. Ask your guide by voice or text.
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One conversation becomes a tour you can edit, play and save.
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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Memorial arch · Praça do Comércio
Narrated · ~59 sec
“…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 — explore the source links alongside each story.
Your city is next
Request access to the iPhone beta.
Old audio guides hand you the same recorded script for a handful of famous cities. This is a guide shaped to your interests, with narration and source links for each stop.
Ask for a city, town or neighborhood. Tours are generated on demand; the places and stories available depend on local source coverage.
Explore source links alongside the stories. AI can make mistakes, so check details that matter to your visit.
Hear a spoken welcome and a story at each stop. Pause, replay and change the narration speed to suit your pace.
Curious about that tiled façade or who lived behind it? Ask by voice or chat and get a spoken or written answer about the places on your route.
Into food, architecture, hidden history, or just taking it slow? Your tour bends to your interests, your time, and your pace — never a one-size-fits-all script.
Follow directions between stops in Florida, our current routing region. Keep the app open and allow location access for arrival guidance.
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.
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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 a spoken or written answer about the places on your tour.
Tap the microphone, ask your question and hear a spoken reply. Keep the app open for location-based guidance.
On a packed tram or in a quiet gallery? Type your question and read the reply instead.
Tour stories draw on retrieved place information. Open the source links to learn more, and check important details before visiting.
Everywhere you go
Ask your guide about a city, town or neighborhood. It builds a tour from available place information. Story coverage varies, and turn-by-turn directions currently cover Florida.
Choose a place. Find its stories.
Fixed-catalog apps
A short list of famous cities.
Pre-recorded routes through the same dozen capitals. Off the list, off the map.
travltime
Your next place to explore.
Plan around your interests, then review the stops, timing and available route guidance.
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No fixed catalog
Every corner has a story
Make the tour yours
Tell your guide what you have time for and what catches your eye.
A free afternoon
Choose a neighborhood, your interests and how long you want to explore. Your guide builds a route around the places it can find.
A closer look
Pause at a stop and ask your guide a question. Read the sources behind the answer and take the next story at your own pace.
A change of plan
Add a stop, shorten the tour or ask for a different focus. Your conversation and saved tour stay together.
Trips · in the iPhone beta
Going for a few days? Tell your guide where, when and how you’ll get around. It drafts a day-by-day plan, then builds each day’s narrated tours when you’re ready.
Multi-day plans
Share your dates, your pace and what you care about. Change a day the same way: ask your guide, and undo it if you change your mind.
Today
Give your trip dates, and while it’s under way, Trips shows a Today card that opens the day’s plan and its tours.
Day briefings
Before you head out, hear a short spoken briefing of where the day takes you and what’s planned.
The current iPhone beta includes narrated tours, edits and your saved-tour library. There are no paid plans to buy today.
Included in beta
Make an individual tour your own, then hear the stories behind its stops.
Private iPhone beta
Try travltime and tell us how it works on your next tour.
No subscription or payment required
Before you set out
Check your route and keep a connection available for your guide.
Future plans and prices have not been announced. Beta access does not enroll you in a subscription. Email us to request access.
Ask for a city, town or neighborhood. Tours are generated from the place information available, so coverage and detail vary by location.
Turn-by-turn directions currently cover Florida. Elsewhere, route distances and times may be estimates. Review the suggested stops before you set out.
Tour stories use retrieved place information, including sources such as Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. Open a stop to explore its source links and read further.
AI can make mistakes. Verify opening hours, access, prices and other important details with the venue before your visit.
Yes. Creating or changing a tour, asking questions, loading maps and preparing new narration need an internet connection.
Offline tour packs are not available. Cached audio is not a complete offline tour, so plan to stay connected while using your guide.
You can listen to narration without reading the screen. To ask a question by voice, tap the microphone and allow microphone and speech-recognition access.
Keep the app open for location-based arrival guidance; background location tracking is not supported. You can also type questions and read the replies.
The current iPhone beta is free, including tour planning, voice narration, questions, edits and saved tours. Sign in with Apple or Google to use it.
Pro subscriptions and Trip Passes are not available to purchase. Future prices have not been announced, and beta access does not enroll you in a subscription.
travltime is in private iPhone beta through TestFlight. The public App Store release and Android app are not available yet; no launch date is announced.
Email us to request beta access. Invitations depend on tester availability. This website does not automatically register you or install the app.
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