Trove turns the street you're standing on into a guided walk: expert audio narration, a map that shows you on the route, and the stories guidebooks skip. Your first walk is free — runs in any browser, no app to install.

Hi, I'm Daniel - I built this on my own from Ireland. It actually started in museums. I never wanted to queue up and rent the audio-guide handset, but wandering around with no context is worse - so I built a guide that plays in my ear from my own phone with my own earphones, telling me about the thing I'm standing in front of. Then I tried it outside and it worked even better: a city is basically a museum but just way bigger. So now it does whole cities too. You pick a city (or a museum), it gives you a route, and the audio plays stop by stop as you walk. Every city has a free walk (I call it the Trove Edit) - the full walk, not a teaser, so you can judge it without paying anything. Couple of honest things: it only just launched, so there are basically no users yet - you'd genuinely be among the first, and I want the blunt feedback. And playing a walk needs a quick Google sign-in, because generating the audio costs me real money per clip. Free means free - there's just one tap to sign in first. If you try one, tell me which city and what you thought. Bad news is more useful than good.

Love that this works in the browser without an app. One thing that would make it even better: let me download a walk for offline use. Cell service tends to drop right when I'm deep into an old neighborhood or a national park trail.

finally tried a walk around my block and found out there's a mural i've walked past a hundred times - love that it just runs in the browser

Trove

Narrated walking tours for the curious

Narrated walking tours for the curious