A guide to the world around you
AWG leads you along the route and, on the way, tells you about the places you pass. Every fact comes with its source.
Every fact comes with its source.
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Every day you pass hundreds of stories. The map shows only names.
Reviews tell you where to eat, not what you are looking at.
- You drive past history every day and know nothing about it.
- A map shows names, not stories.
- A guide is expensive and runs on a schedule. Searching while driving is dangerous.
- Reviews tell you where to eat, not what you are looking at.
AI navigator
It leads you along the route and tells you about the places on the way, aloud, so your eyes stay on the road.
It leads the way and tells you about the places you pass, aloud.
San Francisco Ferry Building
Built1898
Notable eventSurvived 1906 earthquake with little damage
Sourceen.wikipedia.org
Transamerica Pyramid
Height853 ft (260 m)
ArchitectWilliam Pereira
Sourceen.wikipedia.orgtransamericapyramid.com
Explore
No route needed. The guide notices what is interesting nearby and tells you, in the car and on foot.
No route needed: the guide notices what is near.
Hotaling Building
Built1866
DeveloperAnson Parsons Hotaling
Sourceen.wikipedia.org
Any building, from a cathedral to one with no name
Tap any building, even one without a name. You see what is known about it and where it comes from. What is not confirmed is marked as such.
What is known about it, and where from.
Unnamed building
Lombard Street
Height13 m
Sourcemap data · OpenStreetMap
The whole world in your pocket
Any route, any building. In English and Russian.
Any route, any building.
Coit Tower
Named afterLillie Hitchcock Coit
Built1932-1933according to en.wikipedia.org
Sourceen.wikipedia.org
Two modes
AI navigator
Set a destination and drive. The route is an ordinary route; the difference is that on the way you hear about the places you pass, aloud, so your eyes stay on the road.
Transamerica Pyramid
Height853 ft (260 m)
ArchitectWilliam Pereira
Sourceen.wikipedia.orgtransamericapyramid.com
Explore
No destination at all. Walk or drive, and when something worth hearing is close, the guide tells you. The phone can stay in your pocket.
Coit Tower
Named afterLillie Hitchcock Coit
Built1932-1933according to en.wikipedia.org
Sourceen.wikipedia.org
What it does
Any building
A tower, a warehouse, a house with no name. Tap it and see what is known, with the source of every fact.
Stories, read aloud
A short story about the place, spoken, so you can listen instead of reading at the wheel.
Ask about it
Ask a question in words or by voice. The answer rests on the facts we hold, and says so when they run out.
Walks
Turn on Explore and walk. When something worth hearing is close, it tells you. The phone can stay in your pocket.
Every fact has a source
A guide is only as good as what it is sure of. So every fact on a card says where it comes from, and the app never fills a gap with a guess.
- The source is on the card, one tap away.
- When sources disagree, you see the disagreement.
- What is not confirmed is marked; what is unknown stays blank.
San Francisco Ferry Building
Built1898
Notable eventSurvived 1906 earthquake with little damage
Sourceen.wikipedia.org
Who it is for
San Francisco Ferry Building
Built1898
Notable eventSurvived 1906 earthquake with little damage
Sourceen.wikipedia.org
For the traveller
Open the app and drive. The road you were going to take anyway becomes the tour, with no guide to book and no timetable to keep.
For car rental companies
A QR code in the cabin and a link in the booking confirmation. Your guests get a guide for the whole trip.
Any route, any building, wherever you are.
Questions and answers
All questionsHow does the spoken story work?
Tap Tell me on a place. A short story is written from the facts we hold about the place and read aloud. A story made once is kept, so the next person hears it at once. It keeps playing with the screen locked. In Settings you can choose the voice, the style and the length.
How does Explore work, and how do I turn it off?
Switch on Walk and listen on the map. Without a route, the guide watches the places ahead of you and tells you about one when it is near. To stop, tap Stop narration. It also stops by itself after an hour.
Why does a building have so few facts?
We only show what we can find in open sources and confirm. Some buildings have little or nothing published about them, and we will not make it up. A value found in a single source is shown as unconfirmed; when sources disagree, the card says so.
A fact is wrong. How do I tell you?
On the place card tap Report an error, then choose the fact or the whole card. Reports are sent with usage events: if Anonymous analytics is switched off in Privacy, turn it on first, or write to us.
How many questions can I ask the AI?
Ten new questions a day are free. A question someone has already asked about the same place does not count.
Why does the app ask for my location — and in the background?
While the app is open, location puts the map where you are, finds places around you and starts routes. It is not stored.
In the background it is used only by Explore, so that stories keep coming while the phone is in your pocket. Explore is off by default and turns itself off after an hour. If you never switch it on, the app never needs background location.
Take the guide with you
For iPhone and Android.
