It follows your feet
No tapping, no scrolling, no holding your phone up like a tourist. You walk, and when you come within about forty metres of a place worth knowing, the story starts. When it ends, the next one nearby counts you in.
The word on the street.
London's been hiding things in plain sight. Time you heard about them.
Wanderwalk is a walking audio guide that follows your feet. Walk past a place with a story, and the story plays in your ear. Hands in your pockets, phone in your bag, like a podcast that knows exactly where you are. Built for Londoners who already know Big Ben and want the stuff nobody put on the plaque.
Coming soon to the App Store
Hear how it works
Hidden, not the highlights reel
Every story is source-backed and written like a friend grabbed your arm to tell you something. No ‘famous clock tower’ filler. The plague pit under the park, the rebel who struck a stone, the trade a street is named after and nobody remembers.
Made for locals
Built for people who live here, not for the open-top bus. The kind of history that makes you look at a street you walk down every day and think, hang on, that happened here?
Keeps playing on patchy signal
Once a story is cached it keeps going through the dead spots, the tunnels and the basement bars. The work of deciding what plays happens on your phone, not on a server somewhere.
This is what you'll hear
A story for the London Stone, exactly as the app tells it
Behind glass in a wall at one hundred and eleven Cannon Street sits a small, battered block of limestone. This is the London Stone, and nobody can tell you for certain what it was for.
The stories about it, that it is Roman, that it came from Brutus of Troy, that it is the heart of London, are all later traditions, not proven facts. What is known is that it was already old in medieval times.
In fourteen fifty a rebel named Jack Cade marched into London, struck the stone with his sword, and declared himself lord of the city. You walk past it most days. Now you know why people once swore oaths on it.
How it works
How it works
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Tell it what you're into
Pick from the eight categories. Dark history, hidden buildings, the river, whatever pulls you. It uses that to choose which story plays when two places compete.
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Put your phone away and walk
Pick a curated walk or just turn on free roam. Headphones in, phone in your pocket. When you come within about forty metres of a story, it starts on its own.
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Let one story lead to the next
When a story ends, the app offers the nearest one you haven't heard and counts you in. Skip it, replay it, or carry on. London does the rest.
Curated walks
Eight curated walks at launch
Hand-built routes with a clear thread, ordered stop by stop, each story sized to roughly a minute or two. Two of them are free forever. The rest come with Wanderwalk+.
Free forever Free
Covent Garden to Holborn
Nine stops from the old market squares up into legal London, where the streets stop being about flowers and start being about money, ink and law.
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The City: Money, Murder and the Riverside
Ten stops through the Square Mile and down to the water, following the trail of finance, violence and the river that paid for all of it.
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St James's & Westminster
Palaces, clubs and the back-channels of power, where the polite frontage hides who really got things decided, and where.
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Fleet Street & Smithfield
From the street that printed the nation's news to the meat market that fed it, with the executions, presses and slaughter in between.
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The City: Lost Churches
The Square Mile once held more than a hundred parish churches. This walk follows what fire, bombs and the wrecking ball left behind, from bare towers to graveyards turned gardens.
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Soho & Oxford Street
Music, appetite and reinvention packed into a few streets, where a cholera pump once told doctors how the disease really spread.
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Mayfair & Park Lane
Behind some of the most expensive addresses in the world, a story of land deals, old money and the quiet rooms where fortunes changed hands.
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Bankside & Borough
The south bank that London kept its rougher pleasures on, with theatres, prisons and a market that has fed the city for centuries.
Free roam
Stories near you
No fixed route, no walking directions, no plan. Free roam just listens to where you are and triggers any story you haven't heard yet within range, ranked to the things you said you cared about. Walk to the shops, walk the dog, walk home from the pub, and London tells you what happened where you're standing. Wanderwalk+ opens free roam across the whole city.
Interests 
Pick what you're nosy about
Choose the categories you like and the app leans into them as you walk. Care about churches and the dead but not docks and trains? It'll know. Change your mind any time.
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Dark & Untold History
Plague pits, executions, scandals and the stories that never made it onto the plaque.
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Buildings With Secrets
Ghost signs, hidden courtyards and the brutalist slab everyone walks past without asking what it was for.
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Food & Drink
Old pubs that have poured since before the fire, market culture, and the food immigrants brought and stayed with.
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Nature & the River
Lost rivers buried under roads, secret gardens, towpaths and the Thames foreshore at low tide.
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Stage, Screen & Sound
Where novels were written, theatres rose and burned, films were shot and music scenes were started.
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Power & Money
The City's guilds, royal back-channels and the quiet rooms where the real decisions got made.
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Churches, Cemeteries & Belief
Ancient churches, bombed-out ruins turned into gardens, and the burial grounds underfoot.
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Transport, Docks & Industry
Where a sewer saved the city, where penicillin turned up, and where the trains were born.
The player
Built to live in your pocket
It behaves like a proper audio app, because that's what it is. Lock the phone, drop it in your bag, and keep walking. Everything you'd expect from your favourite podcast app is here, tuned for a story that's tied to a place.
- Full written transcripts for every story, so you can read along or read instead
- An Apple Maps Look Around street view of each spot, so you can see exactly where you're standing
- Lock-screen and Control Centre playback, so you never have to wake the phone to pause
- A 15-second skip back, for the bit you half-heard over a passing bus
- Speed control, for when you walk faster than the narrator talks
- Autoplay that offers the next story nearby and counts you in
Pricing
Two walks free forever. Everything else for less than a pint.
No weekly limit, no charge per story, no day pass. Try the free walks, and if you want the whole city, Wanderwalk+ opens all of it.
Free
£0
- The full Covent Garden to Holborn walk, forever
- The full City: Money, Murder and the Riverside walk, forever
- Lock-screen controls, transcripts, Look Around and 15-second skip
- No account required to start listening
Wanderwalk+
£29.99 / year or £4.99 / month
- Every story across London, not just the two free walks
- All eight curated walks at launch, and every new one we add
- Free roam unlocked across the whole city
- New stories and walks as London keeps giving us material
£4.99 a month or £29.99 a year, billed through Apple. The annual plan is the best value and works out at roughly £2.50 a month. Cancel any time. More cities to come.
Questions
Good questions
What is Wanderwalk?
A walking audio guide for London. It uses your location to play a short, narrated story, roughly one to two minutes, when you're close to a place worth knowing about. Two modes: hand-built curated walks, and free roam that triggers stories near you wherever you wander.
Do I need headphones?
They're strongly recommended. The whole point is that it plays in your ear while your phone stays in your pocket, so you can keep your eyes on the street and the city around you. Any headphones or earbuds work, and so does your phone speaker if you'd rather.
Does it work offline?
Once a story's audio has been cached, it keeps playing even on patchy signal, in tunnels, basements and the dead spots. The map needs data to load tiles, and the first play of a story downloads its audio, but after that you're covered through the gaps.
Is any of it free?
Yes. Two full curated walks are free forever: Covent Garden to Holborn, and The City: Money, Murder and the Riverside. No account needed to start. Wanderwalk+ unlocks every other story, all the walks and full free roam for £4.99 a month or £29.99 a year.
Which cities does it cover?
London first, properly. Eight curated walks and more than ninety individual stories at launch, growing over time. More cities will follow once London is doing London justice.
Will it drain my battery or eat my data?
Location is only used while you're actually using the app, never quietly in the background, and the work of deciding which story to play happens on your phone. Audio downloads once and caches, so you're not re-streaming the same story every time you pass it.
What does it do with my location?
Precise location is used When-In-Use only, never always-on background tracking, and it's used mainly on your device to work out which story to trigger. We don't sell your location and we don't share it for advertising. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
When does it launch?
It's coming soon. Wanderwalk isn't on the App Store quite yet — it's in the final stretch before release. Check back here, or follow along, and you'll catch it the moment it lands.
Your city has been keeping secrets. Get the early word.
Wanderwalk launches on iPhone soon. Two walks free, and the whole city a tap away — ready for the next time you're out walking the corners you cross every day.
Coming soon to the App Store