A guide who talks as you walk
Someone who knows this street
Atlin notices where you are and tells you what happened there — out loud, in your language, at the length you chose. Ask it anything. Every answer shows its sources, and it says so when it doesn't know.
The web app asks for a password while it's in testing. Write to us if you'd like one.
Three stories a day, free. €6.99 a month for everything, cancel whenever.
Now telling
40 m ahead
Miradouro de Santa Luzia
The tiled panels on the wall behind you show Praça do Comércio as it looked before 1755, which is to say a square that no longer exists. They were made long after the earthquake, from engravings, so what you're looking at is a memory of a memory.
Works with no signal once you've downloaded the city.
Why you can believe it
Every claim carries its source
Tap any chip and you'll see the exact passage the story came from. Nothing goes beyond it. Ask something the record can't answer and Atlin says so, rather than inventing an answer that sounds right.
Where do locals eat near here?
That's outside what I can source properly — restaurant recommendations aren't in the encyclopaedia, and I won't invent them. I can tell you what the fish market on Rua dos Bacalhoeiros was for, if that helps.
What it does
Built for walking, not for reading
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It talks, you look up
Stories arrive as speech while you keep walking. The screen is there to support the voice, not to hold your attention — big type, high contrast, controls where your thumb already is.
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Sources you can tap
Every assertion carries a chip. Tap it to read the exact passage it came from. Nothing in a story goes further than what the article says.
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Interrupt and ask
Ask about anything you can see. If the answer isn't in the record, Atlin tells you that instead of guessing — the refusals are part of the product.
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Nothing to lose offline
Download a city and the stories, sources and answers all keep working with no signal. The app says which pack it is playing from.
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Tours in your language
Join a guide's live tour and hear them in your own language, with captions if you prefer to read. Ask questions in a queue rather than a crowded chat.
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A journal it writes for you
Where you stopped, how long you stayed, what you asked. Written back to you in the guide's voice at the end of the day.
Live tours
A human guide, in everyone's language
The guide speaks Portuguese. Twelve people hear English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese, each on their own phone, with captions if they'd rather read. Questions go into a queue instead of a chat, so the guide answers them one at a time without losing the thread.
See it on desktopAlfama stood because it sits on rock. Everything below us was built on soft ground.
Alfama aguentou porque assenta em rocha. Tudo abaixo de nós foi construído em terreno mole.
Is the church open to visit today?
Where can we sit down for a moment?
What it costs
Three prices, no surprises
Billed through Stripe. Tours booked with a human guide are paid separately, at the time of booking.
Enough to find out whether a talking guide suits you.
- Three stories a day
- Sources on every claim
- One city at a time, online only
Everything the walking traveller needs.
- Unlimited stories and questions
- Three offline city packs
- Journal, trips and look-around
- Live translation on guided tours
Host live tours where everyone hears you in their own language.
- Groups up to 60
- Translation into 30 languages
- Question queue and group messaging
- Unlimited offline packs
In the browser
You can walk with it in a browser today
Atlin at /go is the phone app, running in a browser — the same guide, the same sources, the same refusals. It asks for a password while it's in testing. The desktop layout, built for the planning half of a trip, is designed and not live yet.
Take a walk with it
Three stories a day are free, and no account is needed to try it. Alfama is a good place to start.
Phones and laptops · iOS and Android apps to follow