Wanderlight — Audio Guides

Stories behind places. Paris, Rome, Florence and Versailles — 51 landmarks, narrated properly.

Most audio guides give you four minutes of dates. Wanderlight gives you eleven minutes on the Eiffel Tower, twenty on Sainte-Chapelle, and twenty-six on how a malarial marsh became Versailles.


What's inside

Paris — 15 places, about 4 hours 10 minutes
Eiffel Tower · Notre-Dame · Sacré-Cœur · Montmartre · Palais Garnier · Sainte-Chapelle · the Conciergerie · the covered passages of the Right Bank · Arc de Triomphe · the Louvre · Les Invalides · the Panthéon · Musée d'Orsay · Père Lachaise · the Catacombs

Rome — 15 places, about 3 hours 20 minutes
Colosseum · Roman Forum · Palatine Hill · San Clemente · Trevi Fountain · Pantheon · Piazza Navona · Castel Sant'Angelo · St Peter's Basilica · Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel · Galleria Borghese · Capitoline Hill · the Jewish Ghetto · Spanish Steps · Monte Testaccio

Florence — 12 places, about 3 hours 20 minutes
Santa Maria Novella · the Medici Chapels · Galleria dell'Accademia · the Baptistery · Florence Cathedral · Piazza della Signoria · the Uffizi · Ponte Vecchio · Santa Croce · Palazzo Pitti · the Boboli Gardens · Piazzale Michelangelo

Versailles — 9 places, about 1 hour 30 minutes
Royal Chapel · the Royal Opera · the King's State Apartments · Hall of Mirrors · the Queen's Apartments · the Gardens · Grand Trianon · Petit Trianon · the Queen's Hamlet
Plus a 26-minute story: The Rise and Fall of Versailles


Written before it was narrated

Every place starts as a research dossier — earliest history, construction, architecture, archaeology, the myths and what's actually known — with the confidence of each claim recorded and the sources listed. Then it's written to be listened to, and narrated in full.

That's why a stop is six to twenty-six minutes instead of ninety seconds. The Trevi Fountain guide can tell you about the hoard of more than 800 bronze coins hidden in a wall during the Vandal sack of 455 and found nine metres under the street in 2001, because someone went and read the excavation report.


Built for actually being there

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 roaming you'd rather not pay for.

Keeps playing with the 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 it and press play.


Quietly private

There is no advertising SDK in Wanderlight and no account, so there is no name or email to attach anything to. We use Amplitude to count which guides get played and where people stop listening, and RevenueCat to handle purchases. 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.


Who it's for

People who would rather understand one building than photograph nine. First visits and fourth ones. Anyone who has stood in front of something important, read the plaque, and wanted more than the plaque.

More cities are on the way. A small catalogue, deliberately — every place is written and narrated rather than scraped.

Travel slower. See more. Understand more.

Recent changes:
Fixes in-app purchases and improves stability.