Every street has a story.
Walk through any place. Hear the stories around you in real time.AI-powered audio stories, based on your exact location — walking or driving.
- Walk or drive
- Works anywhere
- 10 languages
Try it in your neighborhood today.
Curated in 100+ cities. Works anywhere you go.
“London's meat market for 800 years — beneath you, the bones of the medieval St. Bartholomew's hospital.”
Not a tour guide. A friend who knows the lore.
StreetLore narrates origin moments, named-person episodes, era anchors, and neighborhood mythology — for the streets you're already on. Built on a confidence-gated LLM, so when it doesn't know, it stays quiet.
Walking lore
Stroll past a building and hear who built it, when, and why. Origin years, named people, the era that shaped the block. Lore lands as you arrive — not before, not after.
Driving lore
Roadside restaurants, river crossings, civic anchors — narrated as you pass them at 30 mph. The story lands while the place is still in view, not after you have driven by.
Works anywhere
100+ hand-curated cities. Beyond those, real-time OpenStreetMap lookups + a confidence-gated LLM mean StreetLore narrates streets it has never seen before. No itinerary. No tour to follow.
Speak any language
Your guide speaks 10 languages.
Pick the language you want to hear and StreetLore narrates in it — same voice, same lore, different language. Switch any time. Useful when you're traveling, when you're practicing a second language, or when the friend in the passenger seat doesn't share your first.
- English
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- Italiano
- Português
- 日本語
- 中文
- 한국어
- العربية
Every street has a story.
Cada calle tiene una historia.
Chaque rue a une histoire.
Jede Straße hat eine Geschichte.
Ogni strada ha una storia.
Cada rua tem uma história.
どの通りにも物語がある。
每条街都有自己的故事。
모든 거리에는 이야기가 있다.
لكل شارع قصة.
Walk together
One walk, everyone's in on it.
Share a walk with your family or friends and the same lore plays on every phone — synced. The host's GPS drives what gets narrated; everyone in the party hears it through their own earbuds, in their own language.
- Sync from one phone
One person hosts; their walk, their POIs. Followers hear the same narration, no separate setup.
- Earbuds, not loudspeakers
Each person listens through their own headphones. Quiet for everyone else nearby.
- Different languages, same story
The host can be on English, the kids on Spanish. Lore comes through in each listener's language.
- Free, no extra accounts
A 4-character code joins a walk. No sign-up, no friend lists, no algorithm.
How it works.
Three steps. One walk.
Open the app, anywhere
StreetLore picks up your location. No itinerary, no city to pick. The home screen tells you how many stories are nearby before you even start.
Tap Explore around me
Walk or drive. The app waits for you to pass something worth narrating, then speaks up. Silence is part of the design.
Hear the lore as you go
Origin years, the merchant who built the block, the era this neighborhood went up, the name of that river you just crossed. One short story per place. Then quiet again.
What it sounds like.
Real narrations, generated by the app — same voice you hear when you're actually walking. Tap a play button to listen.
“You're in the Northern Quarter, once the heart of Manchester's textile trade. Cotton mills and warehouses ran loomed nights through the Industrial Revolution. The looms went silent and the warehouses became clubs — Joy Division, Stone Roses, Oasis all came out of those rooms.”
“Tokyo's oldest temple sits in Asakusa. Two fishermen pulled a Kannon statue from the Sumida River in 645, and the temple grew up around it. The neighborhood that surrounds it kept its low-rise Edo bones long after the rest of Tokyo went vertical.”
“Reykjavík was a sheep farm until the 1900s — the name literally means smoky bay, from the geothermal steam the first settler saw in 874. The whole city went from five thousand people to a capital in one century.”
100+ cities seeded with curated lore.
Hand-curated landmarks where we've done the homework. Tap a city for its walking-tour page, or beyond these, real-time OpenStreetMap lookups + a confidence-gated LLM mean the streets you walk get narrated everywhere.
- Lisbon
- Chicago
- Paris
- London
- Tokyo
- Rome
- New York
- Barcelona
- Istanbul
- Amsterdam
- Dubai
- Bangkok
- San Francisco
- Manchester
- Reykjavík
- Kyoto
- Berlin
- Cambridge
- Oxford
- Bath
- Madrid
- Vienna
- Praha
- Athina
- Dublin
- Edinburgh
- Stockholm
- København
- Oslo
- Helsinki
- Brussels
- Brugge
- Zürich
- Genève
- München
- Hamburg
- Frankfurt am Main
- Milano
- Firenze
- Venezia
- Napoli
- Sevilla
- Granada
- València
- Porto
- Budapest
- Warszawa
- Kraków
- Dubrovnik
- Saint Petersburg
- Moscow
- Glasgow
- Los Angeles
- Las Vegas
- Miami
- Boston
- Washington
- Seattle
- New Orleans
- Philadelphia
- Austin
- Honolulu
- Toronto
- Vancouver
- Montréal
- Québec
- Mexico City
- Singapore
- Seoul
- Shanghai
- Beijing
- Mumbai
- Jaipur
- Kuala Lumpur
- Hanoi
- Ho Chi Minh City
- 臺北市
- 大阪市
- 広島市
- Lidao Qu
- New Delhi
- Jakarta
- Manila
- Buenos Aires
- Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo
- Lima
- Cusco
- Cartagena
- Jerusalem
- Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Cairo
- Marrakesh
- Cape Town
- Johannesburg
- Nairobi
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Auckland
- Wellington
Walk out the door. We'll do the rest.
StreetLore is a free download. No subscription, no ads, no tour you have to follow. Just lore.