Sonic City - London
London Music Walking Tour
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Pin where you're staying and see which landmarks are a short walk away. Plan tomorrow's wander from tonight's hotel — and it never leaves your phone.
Every street has a soundtrack.
Bohemian Rhapsody was recorded behind that door. Ziggy Stardust launched from that street corner. You've walked past these places a thousand times and never known it.
Sonic City turns London's streets into a music history tour. As you walk past a landmark, your phone plays the track connected to it — automatically, no tapping required.
No earpiece rental. No group tour. No Wikipedia. Just you, your headphones, and streets that suddenly sound completely different.
LONDON IS WHERE POPULAR MUSIC WAS BORN
No city on earth has shaped popular music like London. The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. Bowie. Queen. The Clash. Amy Winehouse. The artists who wrote the soundtrack of the 20th century didn't just pass through — they lived here, recorded here, and made their greatest work on these streets.
The most famous songs in history have a London postcode. Sonic City finds them.
For music lovers, London is a pilgrimage. Sonic City is the map.
But you don't need to be a fanatic. Just walk the city. Enjoy it. Let the soundtrack reveal itself.
HOW IT WORKS
Open the app. Choose a route. Start walking. When you're within about 50 metres of a landmark, Sonic City plays the connected track — and reveals a journalist-quality story about what happened here, told the way a music writer would tell it in a pub: specific, surprising, and never reverent.
NEVER WALK IN SILENCE
Turn it up to 11 and a hand-picked London soundtrack plays as you walk. The music keeps rolling between landmarks, then steps aside the moment you reach one — hero track, the story, and back to the soundtrack right where it left off when you move on.
Prefer the quiet between stops? Switch to landmark music only. Either way, the city scores itself.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND IN LONDON
300+ landmarks. Every kind of music story.
Recording studios. Video shoot locations. First gigs. The bedsit where someone wrote a classic. The night a scene was born and nobody knew it yet.
• The studio where Freddie Mercury and Brian May recorded Bohemian Rhapsody
• The alleyway where Bowie was photographed as Ziggy Stardust
• The flat where a future legend lived on nothing and wrote everything
• The stage where a band played their first London show to fourteen people
• The club that created Britain's first truly interracial dancefloor
Each landmark includes a Look Closer prompt — a physical detail to find that proves the story is real.
NOW IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH
The whole experience — every story — in English or Spanish.
PLAYS WITH APPLE MUSIC
Full playback — including the walking soundtrack — uses your Apple Music subscription. Without it, you still get every story.
COLLECT AS YOU GO
Every landmark you visit earns a gold disc. Complete a route, fill a ring.
FREE. NO ADS. NO IN-APP PURCHASES. No account, no data selling, no cross-app tracking.
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Find your bearings.
• New — pin where you're staying. Set your hotel or home and it lands on the map, so you can see which landmarks are a short walk away.
• Plan from there: the Line-up can now measure distances from your place, not just your live location.
• It stays on your phone — we never see it.
• Small fixes and polish.
The developer, Simon Kanapka, 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.
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Information
- Seller
- Simon Kanapka
- Size
- 15.4 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 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 Spanish
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- © 2026 Simon Kanapka