Tella: GPS Audio Tour Guide

Every place has a story. Tella tells it out loud, right where you are.

Tella is a GPS audio guide for the whole world. It finds the places around you, picks out what is worth knowing and talks you through it — a walking tour through an old town, or sightseeing at the wheel along a hundred kilometres of coast. Nothing to book, no route to follow.

ONE TAP, THEN HANDS-FREE
Tap the big button and Tella starts talking about the place you are standing in. Then put the phone away: the audio tour follows your GPS and speaks again on its own as new places come near, until you tap Stop. The controls are on your lock screen, and your recent stories are saved to hear again.

ON FOOT
In a dense old town — Rome, Prague, Kyoto — the stories come almost block by block: the square, the church, the odd little corner no guidebook bothers with. A self-guided walking tour that writes itself as you wander, with barely a pause in between.

BY CAR
At road speed Tella looks much further ahead, so it starts telling you about a place before you get there. Where the land empties out — the Highlands, the Pacific Coast Highway — it turns to the towns, rivers and hills outside the window. And Android Auto is coming: soon you can start a tour, replay a saved story or end it from the car's own screen.

ANYWHERE ON EARTH
Move the map or search for a place, then ask about it — with photos of what is nearby. It knows Paris, and it knows the village two valleys over: the same map covers both, on the road or from the sofa.

12 LANGUAGES
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean and Chinese, each with a choice of voices. Switch language in the middle of a story and Tella tells it again in the new one.

REAL PLACES, PRIVATELY
The stories are composed by AI from what Wikidata and OpenStreetMap record about each place, together with the general knowledge learned from the internet. Photos come from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
• No account, no sign-up, no ads
• Private by design: your location only finds the stories around you — never sold, never shared for ads, never linked to you

Tella — make me local.

Recent changes:
Press play indoors, or with Location switched off, and Tella now says straight away that it is waiting for a position - and points you to the map, which needs no GPS - instead of going quiet. The tour card no longer says your tour is running while it is still waiting for one.