LookUp: Explore Your City
History behind every building
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Explore your city one building at a time. Point LookUp at anything on your street, get its story in seconds, and watch your map fill in as you walk.
Ever walked past a building and wondered what it is, when it was built, or why it looks the way it does? Point LookUp at it and find out.
LookUp identifies architecture from a photo. Take a picture of any building — anywhere in the world — and in seconds you get its architectural style, era and materials, explained in plain language, plus "the tell": the one visual cue that helps you recognise the same style on the next street.
Every building you identify joins your collection, and your city map fills in as you explore. Thousands of landmarks appear as ghost silhouettes, and each one you capture turns to colour. Known landmarks are recognised from where you're standing and come with real facts: architect, year, style, sourced from open data. With LookUp Pro, the landmark greats of Glasgow, Scotland, London and San Francisco appear as silhouettes sculpted from real laser-survey data, not clip art.
IDENTIFY ANY BUILDING
• Instant readings of style, period and materials, written for curious passers-by — no jargon
• Works on any building, anywhere: famous cathedral or the block across the street
• Landmark recognition from your position and heading, with real attributed facts
COLLECT YOUR CITY
• A map of ghost silhouettes that turn to colour as you capture them
• Your photos and readings, kept in a private collection — nothing is visible to anyone; there are no social features
• No account or sign-up needed; optionally back up your collection with Sign in with Apple
GO DEEPER WITH LOOKUP PRO
• Full readings: richer, deeper writing that teaches you each style
• Laser-scanned silhouettes: the landmark greats, sculpted from real survey data, on your map
• Architect mode: precise architectural vocabulary, with terms you can tap to spotlight that feature on your own photo
• Building notes: the story behind each recognised landmark, and Listen to hear readings and notes read aloud as you walk
• Your whole collection kept forever
• Support an independent app made by one person who loves buildings
LookUp is free to use: unlimited quick readings, the full map, and your 25 most recent readings. LookUp Pro is an optional subscription, monthly or yearly, or a one-off lifetime purchase: the price is shown in the app and on the App Store before you buy, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Payment goes through your Apple account; manage or cancel any time in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions.
Readings are generated by an AI model from your photo and may be imperfect.
Privacy policy: https://lookup-mobile-app.fly.dev/privacy
Terms of use: https://lookup-mobile-app.fly.dev/terms
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Explore your city.
• The map leads: your collected landmarks stand as models, the rest wait to be found
• Sets: every landmark kind near you as a set to complete, with a walking order
• Your photo flies into your Collection, the reading sheet follows your finger, and completing a set is a moment
• Building pages open on your own photo of the building
• Frosted-glass header and tab bar, smoother motion throughout, and fixes
The developer, Jamie Smith, 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 Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Jamie Smith
- Size
- 87.1 MB
- Category
- Education
- 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.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 24 more
- English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- LookUp Pro Lifetime $99.99
- City Pass $5.99
- LookUp Pro Monthly $6.99
- LookUp Pro Annual $39.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jamie Smith