Urban Tales: Audio Tour Guide
Self-Guided City Walking Tours
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Turn any walk into your own audio-guided city experience.
Urban Tales is your personal audio guide for exploring any city at your own pace. Discover the stories behind landmarks around you, follow a walking tour, or simply walk and let the city reveal itself.
No groups. No schedules. No constant searching. Just explore.
Discover stories around you
Find interesting landmarks nearby and hear immersive audio stories about the places you visit. Discover history, culture, legends and curious facts as you explore.
Explore freely
No fixed route required. Walk wherever you want, at your own pace, and discover the stories behind the places around you.
Pocket Mode
Put your phone in your pocket and keep exploring. Urban Tales can notify you when you're near an interesting landmark and start the audio experience without requiring you to constantly look at your screen.
Create walking tours
Prefer a route? Create a tour based on how you want to explore:
• 7 Wonders — discover the must-see highlights
• Half-Day Tour — explore for around 4–5 hours
• Full-Day Tour — make a day of it
• Custom Tours — choose the landmarks you want to visit
Explore virtually anywhere
Urban Tales isn't limited to a fixed catalog of destinations. Open the app in cities, towns and destinations around the world and discover stories about nearby places.
Choose how stories are told
Listen in different narration styles, from historical and informative to fun, cinematic and curious.
Make exploration a game
Track the landmarks you've discovered, earn XP and coins, and build your personal travel history as you explore.
Start exploring for free
Listen to a limited number of landmark stories for free. Use coins to unlock more exploration, including Day Passes, City Unlocks and premium features such as Pocket Mode.
No subscription required.
Your next city already has stories to tell.
Put in your earbuds, start walking and let Urban Tales bring them to life.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & Reviews
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• If your phone's location is off, the app now tells you and helps you turn it on, then carries on by itself
• Clearer messages when landmarks can't load, with a quick Try again
• Better layout with large text sizes
• Small fixes and improvements
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The developer, Leandro Ferreira Pimentel, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Leandro Ferreira Pimentel
- Size
- 69.9 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.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- 1000 coins $5.99
- 500 coins $2.99
- Urban Tales Unlimited (Annual) $29.99
- 2000 coins $9.99
- 5000 coins $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Urban Tales