Look up from your phone.
Wanderlight is a narrated walking guide for curious travellers — the story of the thing you're standing in front of, in your ears instead of on a screen.
Get it free on Google Play Android · 25 landmarks · every guide free right nowBuilt for actually being there
Guides are made for the street, not the sofa — which mostly means staying out of your way.
Works without signal
Download a city over wi-fi before you leave. Every guide plays in full on aeroplane mode, in a basement, or on foreign roaming you'd rather not pay for.
Keeps playing, screen off
Put the phone in your pocket and keep walking. Play, pause and skip from the lock screen or your headphones.
Notices what's near you
An optional list of landmarks within about a kilometre, so you find the things you didn't know to look for. Decline the permission and everything else still works.
No account, ever
No sign-up, no email, no password to forget. Open the app and press play.
Written before it was narrated
The reason a stop runs eleven or twenty-six minutes rather than ninety seconds.
A dossier per landmark
Earliest history, construction, architecture, archaeology, the myths and what is actually known — researched and written out in full before a word is narrated.
Every claim rated
Each fact carries how confident the research is, and the sources are listed. Where something is only a story, the guide says so instead of repeating it as fact.
Six to twenty-six minutes
Twenty-five landmarks across three cities, and about five and a half hours of narration. Long enough to actually explain something.
Where you can wander
A small catalogue, deliberately — every stop is written and narrated rather than scraped. More cities are on the way.
Paris
From the iron lace of the Eiffel Tower to the hidden covered passages of the Right Bank.
Rome
Stand where the Roman crowd stood, at an arena built from the spoils of Jerusalem — then walk on to the Forum, the Pantheon and the Sistine Chapel.
Versailles
A hunting lodge swollen into the stage of absolute monarchy — mirrored galleries, drilled gardens, and a make-believe village built for a queen. Plus a 26-minute story on how the whole thing rose and fell.
Read one before you go
Some of the research, written out. The same dossiers the narration is written from — the myths checked, the hedges kept.
Paris
Arc de Triomphe
Covered Passages of Paris
Eiffel Tower
Notre-Dame Cathedral
Palais Garnier
Sacré-Cœur Basilica
Sainte-Chapelle
The Louvre Museum
Quietly private
Not a policy written to be tolerated — a description of an app that genuinely doesn't watch you.
There is no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, and no crash-reporting SDK in Wanderlight. There is no account, so there is nothing to attach data to.
If you allow location access, your coordinates are compared against the landmark list on your device and never transmitted — not to us, not to anyone.
Every guide is free right now
Twenty-five landmarks in Paris, Rome and Versailles. Download a city over wi-fi and it plays on aeroplane mode, in a basement, with the screen off.
Get it free on Google Play