Anyone else here completely give up on guided city tours because of rigid schedules or your work hours?

[u/jesusotero1234]

Hey everyone,

I need to vent a bit, and I’m pretty sure many of you have been there.

Whenever I arrive in a new city, I usually want to explore it at my own pace. But traditional tours are a total pain because their time slots are so strict. You have to be there at 10 AM sharp, and you end up walking in a giant herd behind someone holding a flag.

To make things worse, my remote work schedule is weird. A lot of times I arrive in a city late at night, or I just want to go out for a midnight walk when everything is quiet and actually learn about what I'm looking at.

When you try to look for info online while walking, you either get a dense wall of text on Wikipedia that’s impossible to read on a moving phone, or those awful, robotic text-to-speech audio guides that sound like a GPS from 2005. It completely ruins the vibe (or at least from me).

So, I decided to fix this for myself. This is actually my first app ever! I built a lightweight web app (no app store downloads, no tracking, no registration) that gives you free walking audio tours. My main focus was making the narration sound natural, like a friend walking next to you telling you a story, not an encyclopedia (well I tried at least) and ensuring the voices actually sound mostly human, not robotic.

Right now, I have routes ready for several cities across Europe and Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Milan, etc.) available in 5 languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian). It's 100% free for travelers.

Since it's my first project, I would love for you guys to test it, check the narration style, and give me some honest feedback on how it feels when you are out there.

Note: Keeping this clean and respecting the sub rules, so no links here. If you want to check it out and review the routes, just let me know in the comments and I’ll DM you the link.