Tracks&Taps - Your Tour Guide
Your Gamified Tour Guide
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Welcome to Tracks&Taps, the ultimate city tour companion designed to transform standard walking routes into immersive, gamified exploration adventures. By blending the depth of a historic city guide with the thrill of an outdoor scavenger hunt, this application offers an entirely unique perspective on urban travel and local discovery.
Whether exploring regional history or visiting a new destination for the first time, Tracks&Taps encourages people to look up from their screens and truly engage with the surroundings. The app replaces passive sightseeing with interactive milestones, making every street corner a potential discovery.
HOW IT WORKS
The journey begins by selecting a curated city route within the app. Step outside, head to the starting point, and let the adventure unfold:
- Discover: Follow interactive maps that guide users to key points of interest.
- Solve: At each major landmark, a location-based challenge or riddle appears. The answer can only be found by examining the real-world environment, such as analyzing a statue's inscription, counting architectural elements, or spotting hidden symbols.
- Unlock: Successfully completing a challenge reveals fascinating historical context, local legends, and the coordinates for the next stop on the track.
CORE FEATURES
Interactive Scavenger Hunts & Travel Games
Turn a simple stroll into an outdoor escape room. The app presents clever riddles and trivia that challenge observation skills. This gamified approach ensures that tracking down local history remains engaging and fun for solo explorers, groups of friends, and families looking for a unique weekend activity.
Expertly Curated Local Itineraries
Skip the overcrowded tourist traps and discover the authentic soul of a city. Routes are meticulously researched to highlight hidden gems, secret alleyways, and compelling regional stories. Experience the historic charm, medieval weighing houses, and scenic canals of Alkmaar, or uncover the vast maritime legacy, historic harbors, and golden-age architecture of Hoorn.
Inclusivity is integrated directly into the core design of Tracks&Taps, ensuring that everyone can participate in the adventure:
- Dynamic Text Scaling: Compatibility with system font size configurations means the layout adjusts smoothly to larger text sizes, significantly improving readability for individuals with low vision or visual impairments.
- Complete App Translation: The whole interface, menus, settings, and buttons are fully translated into six languages, ensuring a seamless, native experience from the moment the app opens.
- Fully Localized Tours & Narration: Every tour route, location-based challenge, riddle, and text description is completely translated across all six languages. High-quality voice narration accompanies the tracks, providing clear spoken guidance and immersive storytelling to support international travelers and diverse communities alike.
Clean, High-Performance Interface
Built for real-world navigation, the user interface remains fluid, intuitive, and highly responsive. Users can easily track overall route progress, view unlocked milestones, and navigate city streets with minimal friction. The streamlined architecture prioritizes reliability, ensuring a smooth experience from the first step to the final challenge.
THE PERFECT COMPANION FOR:
- Curious Day Trippers: People seeking a structured, self-paced walking tour that combines entertainment with education.
- Local History Enthusiasts: Residents wanting to uncover forgotten lore and hidden details right in their own neighborhoods.
- Active Families: Parents looking for an outdoor activity that keeps children actively engaged and moving.
- International Tourists: Visitors wanting premium, narrated cultural insights delivered seamlessly in their native language.
Step outside, choose a route, and experience the world one challenge at a time. Download Tracks&Taps today and turn the next city walk into an amazing quest.
Ratings & Reviews
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Fixed: User location on map and tour detail screen not showing image of tour.
The developer, Joey van der Poel, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Joey van der Poel
- Size
- 78.5 MB
- Category
- Adventure
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Frequent
Contests
Infrequent
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Contains
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- 10 Tokens $17.99
- 5 Tokens $9.99
- 2 Tokens $4.99
- 1 Token $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Joey van der Poel
