OpenEar Tours
Audio walking tours, offline
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPhone
Barcelona, Madrid, San Sebastián, Istanbul and now Rome. Audio walks that start on their own when you arrive.
Some cities are best explained by walking through them.
OpenEar plays a tour in your ear as you walk. When you reach a stop, the audio starts on its own — the phone stays in your pocket. No tapping. No signal required.
NOT A LIST OF FACTS. AN ARGUMENT.
Every OpenEar tour is written to make a point, not to recite dates. The Gothic Quarter is younger than it looks. Istanbul's most photographed square was a Roman racetrack. Each stop builds on the last, and the walk ends somewhere you didn't expect.
HOW IT WORKS
Choose a tour. Download it before you go. Start walking. GPS wakes each stop as you reach it — or tap any stop to play it yourself.
MADE FOR WALKING, NOT FOR STARING AT A SCREEN
· Works fully offline once downloaded — no roaming, no dead zones
· Plays with the screen locked, from your pocket
· Full transcripts for every stop, if you'd rather read or can't hear the audio
· Available in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian
BUY A TOUR ONCE. KEEP IT FOREVER.
No subscription. No ads. No account required to browse.
WE DON'T TRACK YOU
Your location never leaves your phone. OpenEar contains no analytics, no tracking, and no crash-reporting software of any kind. We built it that way on purpose.
TOURS
Barcelona
· Gothic Heart — the quarter that's younger than it looks
· Gràcia — the village that refused to disappear
· Sea, Power & Memory I & II — the working waterfront, and the shore it became
· Beyond the Walls — the defence that became a prison
Madrid
· Habsburg Madrid — the capital that was ordered into being
· Bourbon Madrid — the hill of sciences
· Castizo Madrid — the neighbourhood that outlived its own work
· Literary Madrid — where the Golden Age wrote and fought
· Gran Vía — they started building Paris and finished New York
· The Christmas Fire — the night Madrid lost its castle
· Malasaña — named from below
Istanbul
· Sultanahmet — nothing here stayed what it was
· Divanyolu — what Mehmet inherited was a ruin
· Kadıköy & Moda — the Istanbul across the water
· Bebek & Rumeli Hisarı — the strait before it was a view
· Dolmabahçe — the palace had two faces
· Galata & Pera — the strength of not belonging
San Sebastián
· The Soul of San Sebastián
· The Making of Donostia
Rome
· Colosseum to Caracalla — a gift to the people
· Campo Marzio — once outside Rome
· St. Peter's — the view that cost a neighbourhood
· The Ghetto — built to convert
· Rome Ran Out of Water — and took its hills back
· Testaccio — the hill that was thrown away
· Esquilino — written over
· Garbatella — the workers' utopia the regime finished
More cities are coming.
Ratings & Reviews
What's new:
On your first walk, a short tip shows how to start listening.
New cities and walks now appear the first time you open the app.
Opened the app without a connection? It now reloads by itself as soon as you're back online.
Clearer sign-in: show your password when creating an account, and clearer error messages.
Permission requests now appear in your phone's language.
Smaller fixes and wording improvements.
The developer, Lisya Dana, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Lisya Dana
- Size
- 58.2 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 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, Italian, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Garbatella $2.99
- Esquilino $2.99
- Testaccio $2.99
- Rome Ran Out of Water $2.99
- The Roman Ghetto $2.99
- St. Peter's — What It Cost $2.99
- Campo Marzio $2.99
- Colosseum to Caracalla $2.99
- Malasaña $2.99
- Galata & Pera $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 OpenEar
