Bad Historian: City Tours

Walking tours for every city

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Audio tours that transform every city into a show you walk through with stories you can't wait to retell. Pick a destination, choose a tour, and step into the scandals, secrets, crimes, rivalries, artists, architecture, power struggles, and unbelievable facts that shaped the streets around you. HOW IT WORKS Pick a destination, choose a tour, and step into the scandals, secrets, crimes, rivalries, artists, architecture, power struggles, and spectacularly bad decisions that shaped the streets around you. These aren’t dry lectures or lists of dates. They’re entertaining stories that bring every city and stop to life with stories you’ll want to retell when you get home. Think of it as a show that unfolds street by street. THE GAME Almost everything you hear is documented. A few small details in each tour are invented, and at the end we tell you which ones. The difficulty is not our doing — history keeps making this hard, because the real stories are usually the ones that sound made up. THE REVEAL Every tour ends with a quiz: which stories were true and which ones we invented? The real history is always stranger than anything we could make up. Find out the truth at the end. WHAT YOU GET: EXPLORE YOUR WAY • Start whenever you want and move at your own pace • Follow each story through the in-app route and map • Pause for food, photos, or unexpected discoveries • Download tours and listen offline • Preview the first stop of every tour for free • Ask the Historian when you want to know more • Finish with the Fact or Fiction quiz and reveal DESTINATIONS Explore New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, Washington DC, Northern Michigan, Paris, London, Rome, Florence, Mallorca, and more. With tours that cover architecture, crime, discovery, quirky stories, art, religion, and pop culture. Bad Historian covers it all with new cities, tours, and stories are added regularly. The real stories sound fake. The invented ones sound real. Good luck.

Ratings & Reviews

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    1 Ratings

Big updates this week THE PLAYER Real previous/next navigation between stops, a way to jump straight to any stop, and tapping a pin on the map now shows you what's there. THE TOUR PAGE An improved stop list that lets you preview each stop and navigate between each location. ASK THE HISTORIAN Rebuilt as its own screen, and more reliable — the mic no longer mishears background noise or listens forever without an answer. Ask about something you're looking at that isn't on the tour ("what's that building?") and he'll actually look around and answer, instead of telling you he can't guess.

Version 1.2.2

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Information

Seller
  • Painless Care, Inc.
Size
  • 75.4 MB
Category
  • Travel
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.1 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.
Location
  • This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
9+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • City Access $14.99
  • Friends Share Pack $4.99
  • All Accesss $24.99
  • Single tour $9.99
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Copyright
  • © 2026 Bad Historian
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