Travelling In Time
History SatNav for Families
£4.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Works with CarPlay. Drive past a castle or Roman fort and the kids hear its story. Half a million UK sites plus UNESCO World Heritage Sites worldwide. No ads, no data.
The history app that talks to your kids in the car.
Travelling In Time turns every journey into a story. Plug your iPhone into CarPlay, and as you drive past a castle, a Roman road, a Tudor manor or a village church, the app notices and tells your children what happened there — in a friendly voice, in plain words.
There are over half a million historic places in the app, covering every corner of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — plus every UNESCO World Heritage Site on Earth. That's not just the famous landmarks. It's the ruined abbey you've driven past a hundred times, the pub that used to be a coaching inn, the field where a battle was fought. Your children will start asking "what's that?" — and finally get an answer.
WORKS WITH CARPLAY
Stories play through your car speakers, hands-free. Nothing to tap, nothing to read while driving. Just drive, and history comes to you.
A SATNAV THAT KNOWS ITS HISTORY
Built-in turn-by-turn directions take you to any site. Plan a day out around castles, Roman forts or stately homes, and let the kids pick where next.
MEET FIONA, YOUR GUIDE
Fiona introduces each place, reveals the stories behind the stones and answers the questions children actually ask. Tap "Gruesome Tales" if you dare — the Tudors were more fascinating, and more grisly, than any classroom admits.
LEARN WITHOUT NOTICING
Nearly a million quiz questions and 700,000 "Did You Know?" facts earn coins, badges and streaks. It feels like a game. It's the history curriculum — Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Tudors, Victorians and more — arriving one real place at a time.
EXPLORE FROM ABOVE
Not in the car? Fly over sites in stunning 3D, tap to land and explore, and follow along with karaoke-style highlighted text as Fiona reads.
THE WORLD'S GREATEST WONDERS, TOO
Beyond Britain, fly over 1,200+ UNESCO World Heritage Sites — the Pyramids of Giza, Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China, Neuschwanstein Castle and hundreds more — each with its own story, facts and quiz.
BUILT FOR FAMILIES, BUILT FOR TRUST
• One-time purchase — no subscription, no in-app purchases, no surprises
• Completely ad-free
• No accounts, no chat, no strangers
• Collects no data — the App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected", and we mean it
• Content reviewed for young audiences, with parental controls
• Original music and sound design made for the app
PERFECT FOR
• Road trips and the school run
• Days out with National Trust, English Heritage and Cadw sites
• Home educators and Key Stage 1–2 history topics
• Grandparents who want a good answer to "what's that, Grandad?"
Every road in Britain has a story. Now your children can hear it.
Perfect quiz? Watch the lightning!
- Get every quiz question right and the landmark fires a burst of lightning across the map, zapping the pins around it. Perfected places keep a little gold trophy so you can see where you've conquered.
- CarPlay: Fiona now tells you quick facts while you're driving and saves the longer tales for when you've parked. Tap "Hear more" on the card when there's more to tell.
- CarPlay: the car sits square on the road and keeps up with you properly on bends and at speed.
- CarPlay: the gem you're hearing about spins while Fiona talks, and stars along your route are easier to collect. Longer trips get more stars.
- SatNav on iPhone now sweeps up the stars and gems you drive past, just like CarPlay.
- Fiona says kings and queens the right way: Henry the Eighth, not Henry V-I-I-I. Place names in capitals, "-acre" names and "Domesday" sound right too.
- Fewer audio hiccups in the car, and general tidy-ups for a smoother ride.
Grab your scarf: The Away Day is here.
- New tour: The Away Day. Fly over twenty famous football grounds in one trip, from Wembley all the way to Glasgow, with Cardiff, Birmingham, Wolverhampton,
Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sunderland and Newcastle on the way. Fiona tells you the story of each ground, from the cottage in the
corner at Craven Cottage to the pitch on wheels at Tottenham, with a fun fact at every stop.
- Trophy pins. Each ground now has its own gold trophy on the map, with five quiz questions and three facts about the club, its records and its famous
players. Collect all twenty.
- Find your team. Type a club name into search, such as Chelsea or Everton, and jump straight to their home ground. On the tour, tap the stadium picker to
skip to any ground.
- Cheer or boo. Two big thumbs on the stadium tour play a roaring crowd, or a grumble, so you can back your team or boo the rivals.
- All stadium stories are about the football: records, legends and the quirks of each ground. Nothing scary.
- Also in 1.0.2: the map now keeps working when you lose signal, switching to a simpler map instead of grey squares, and the app opens faster and more
smoothly. Perfect quiz scores send a burst of lightning across the map. In CarPlay, Fiona tells quick facts while you drive and saves the longer tales for
when you have parked.
Questions or ideas? support@travellingintime.com
The developer, Travelling In Time Ltd, 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
- Provider
- Travelling In Time Ltd
- Size
- 2 GB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and French
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Made For Ages 6–8
This app is rated 4+ with content restrictions.
Some content may be rated higher, and may therefore be restricted and managed by the developer through in-app controls. - In-App Controls
Parental Controls
Infrequent
Contests
- Copyright
- © 2026 Travelling In Time


