LAUNCHING 2026 · EARLY ACCESS OPEN

The city,
out loud

Every building you walk past has something behind it — who put it there, what it survived, who it ruined. Tellby tells you that story out loud, at the moment you're standing in front of it.

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Place detail with map and audio guide player
A map built from KPop Demon Hunters, with 23 filming locations
Exploring nearby places on the map
Tours shared by other travelers
47
Cities ready to walk
9
Stories inside one place
5
Ways to use it
0
Research required

Five ways in

Stories are the way in. Here are five doors to them.

A · AUDIO GUIDES

Hear where
you're standing

Pick a city, pick a place, and start walking. GPS does the rest — each story plays when you reach the spot it belongs to. Nothing to search, nothing to tap.

A place isn't one story either. A cathedral is nine of them — the crypt, the bell that cracked, the architect who died before the roof went on.

  • · 47 cities, around 9 stories inside each place
  • · Come back and hear it again through architecture, or history, or the people who lived there
  • · Download once, listen with your data off
  • · Narrated in English and Korean
City list — New York with 236 guides, London with 289
Places in New York with a guide playing in the mini player
B · CONTENT MAPS

Turn what you love
into a map

Start from a film, a series, an album, a novel, a game, a person you admire — and Tellby builds the map for you. Every location it was shot, written about or lived in, laid out as a route you can actually walk. The thing you're a fan of becomes the reason you're there.

Squid Game across Seoul. Sherlock across London. A K-pop video, stop by stop. Pick one and it's a day planned.

🎬 Film & TV
🎮 Games
🎵 Music
👤 People
📚 Books
Content categories — Sherlock with 31 locations, Squid Game with 19
KPop Demon Hunters mapped across Seoul
C · GRND

What locals are
into this week

Tellby reads the social chatter in each city and surfaces the places people are actually going right now — the wine bar with no menu and no phone number, not the one from the 2019 listicle. And if you'd rather not go alone, you can find someone to go with.

  • · Local hot — ranked by what's buzzing, filtered by time of day
  • · Meetups — start one or join one, see it on the map
  • · Friends — other travelers in the same city
Local hot ranking with time and category filters
Place detail explaining why it's hot, with a meetup button
D · CREATORS

Leave your voice
where you stood

Walk a route, record what you know, publish it. When someone else arrives at that corner, they hear you. It's the closest thing to being there to show them around.

  • · Record it yourself, or let AI narrate your script
  • · Price each map, guide or plan however you want
  • · Following is free — half of every sale goes to the creator
Building a new guide by picking places on the map
Creator dashboard with sales and monthly subscription pricing
E · PLANS

Retrace someone
else's day

Build your own itinerary, or just take one someone already walked. When you have three days and no idea where to start, the route of a person who has been there beats a top-ten list.

  • · AI drafts a plan around your pace, your interests, the season
  • · Browse routes creators have published, city by city
  • · Join a real tour, or run one yourself
Tour list — Feed, Local Tour and My Plan tabs
Tour detail with 47 places over 24 hours
New YorkLondonParisRomeTokyoSeoul BarcelonaPragueIstanbulKyotoLisbonBerlin

Be there on day one

We'll email you the moment it's live, with 200 credits already in your account — enough to listen to two places end to end.

Questions people ask

When does it launch? +

iOS is in testing now and Android follows shortly after. Sign up and you'll hear from us before anyone else.

What does it cost? +

Browsing and free content cost nothing. Audio guides run on credits, charged per place. Early access comes with 200 credits — two full places, on the house.

What languages is the audio in? +

English and Korean. We'd rather write and narrate two languages well than machine-translate into a dozen — a story told badly isn't worth hearing.

Do I need data while I'm out? +

No. Audio you've downloaded stays on your phone, so it works with roaming off. Grab a place over hotel wifi and walk it the next morning.

Can anyone publish a guide? +

Yes. Record in your own voice or have AI read your script, set your own price, and keep half of what you earn.

What happens to my email? +

One launch email and the occasional note about early-access perks. No marketing blasts, and you can leave the list whenever you like.