Herodot AI

Herodot AI

App to unlock tales of any attraction around, from map&photo

4.7
3 reviews

574 followers

Herodot is an AI travel buddy that shares insighful stories about anything you see around. Turn simple sightseeing into insightful adventures and impress friends and family with your knowledge of history, architecture, traditions, and more! Snap a photo of a landmark or piece of art you are interested in. Ask about landmarks from the map. Explore a city simply asking about a piece of the map. Available in iOS and Android
This is the 4th launch from Herodot AI. View more

Herodot AI

Launched this week
Travel at any place like with a personal local guide
We work on Herodot AI for more than two years moving from just a nice concept to truly reliable, easy to use app. Our task is to give you a feeling that you walk and travel with a knowledgeable local friend, who can guide you pretty much like a human, telling exciting stories on what is around, whatever catches your eye. Due to Google Cloud AI startups support program, we could make many of app features free. We hope you try and enjoy it on your next trip!
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Launch tags:AndroidTravelMaps
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Oleg Bakatanov

Hi Hunters and Makers! This is our launch number 4 at Product Hunt. Since our first launch, we steadily moved step by step, trying to make our product better, collecting user feedbacks, adding new features and upgrading with new models. Now Herodot AI is better than it has ever been - more engaging, accurate and faster stories, close to human level and faster audio quality.

And, real user feedback is still the most important for us. And I found it is so difficult to get. Please, try our app (we added promo code for free use) and share your thoughts on what we can add or improve to make it your favourite app!

Zeiki Yu

Congrats on the launch — love how Herodot turns casual sightseeing into rich, story‑driven travel 👏

Oleg Bakatanov

@zeiki_yu many thanks! I hope you enjoy it at your next travel! Please, let us know, how we can improve, if you have any ideas

Aileen Gallinero

Congrats on the launch!

While reading the description my initial thought is it's just Google Lens+Gemini but as someone who likes to travel but not very good in directions and almost always have limited time in planning and researching - what got me excited was the possible emotion behind using the app while on a holiday. You got me with this - feeling that you walk and travel with a knowledgeable local friend, who can guide you pretty much like a human, telling exciting stories on what is around, whatever catches your eye.

Oleg Bakatanov
@aileen_gallinero Thanks, Aileen, Google Lens and Gemini certainly can do similar job, but they are more generic, require a lot of customization and not quite convenient when you are on spot and just want to learn about it with minimal effort. This is what we try to do with Herodot
Nika

This is a nice idea. Last couple of years, I have been trying to travel a bit more and understand more about culture and the historical places. What major adjustments can we spot in this launch?

Oleg Bakatanov
@busmark_w_nika Hi, we improved a lot quality of stories, both factual and entertaining. We also worked hard to improve reliability of app in real word conditions, as well as speed of response, even with bad internet speed. I hope you try it in your next trip or even at your home city!
Nika

@oleg_bakatanov Cool. Does it also contain my small town? :D I swear we are barely in the map :D

Nicole
I’ve lived in London my whole life and still keep discovering new spots. I tend to enjoy things more when I can listen rather than read, which is why the audio feature really stood out to me.
Oleg Bakatanov
@nicc666 exploring London with Herodot could be awesome. I hope you try it!
Alek Gir
Congrats on the launch, team! As a fellow builder of AI tools (working on real-time translation apps), I love how Herodot turns sightseeing into storytelling adventures with photo recognition and multi-language support-perfect for overcoming travel language barriers. Excited to test it in Europe soon! 🚀
Oleg Bakatanov

@alegir Many thanks! Please, try, and share your feedback! Even at your home city you can be amazed how much you can learn!

Valeriia Kuna
Love the audio feature! I travel a lot and usually end up doom-scrolling Google for info whenever I see a monument, so having an AI guide instead sounds much better. Since this is your 4th launch, I’m curious—what’s the biggest update in this version compared to the previous ones?
Oleg Bakatanov
@valeriia_kuna Thanks! We constantly improve and grow together with overall quality of AI models. Everything, quality of content, voicing, reliability improve a lot from launch to launch
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