Authors Travel Guides: Tours

"Authors Travel Guides" is your personal pocket storyteller for exploring cities through immersive author-crafted tours, automatic GPS audio guides, and smart AI insights.

A key advantage: You, your friends, or professional guides can create a tour route file (it’s easy—you can download a sample from the app) and share it with the world via any available method.
Once the file is loaded into the app, the images, audio, and map are cached, allowing them to work offline!

Discover the soul of world destinations at your own pace. Walk freely through historic avenues and scenic quarters while the app automatically plays captivating stories the moment you approach iconic monuments and hidden gems.

Create your own tours and share them with the whole world!

The app is also fully equipped for creating quizzes and city scavenger hunts; you simply need to create a voice-based task for a specific set of coordinates and save it to a file JSON.
The app will display the location on the map and play the task!

🌟 KEY FEATURES:

🎧 1. AUTOMATIC GPS AUDIO GUIDE (Auto-Guide Mode)
• Hands-free walking tours: audio tracks trigger automatically as soon as you step inside a landmark's trigger zone.
• Works seamlessly in the background and with your screen turned off, powered by an optimized Android foreground location service.
• Classic floating media player on the map and media controls in your device's notification center.

🗺️ 2. INTERACTIVE OPENSTREETMAP & SMART MARKERS
• Detailed city navigation with OpenStreetMap (OSM) and tile caching for fast, smooth browsing.
• Color-coded route progress: unvisited spots (blue), currently playing (amber), and completed sights (green).
• Visual geofence radius circles displayed directly on the map so you always see trigger distances.
• Smooth compass re-centering to North, zoom controls, and a precise real-time navigation pointer.

🤖 3. "ASK AI" & DEEP-DIVE SIGHTSEEING
• Satisfy your curiosity beyond standard guidebooks with one-tap AI assistance (powered by Google Gemini or your favorite AI).
• Pre-crafted historical prompts for every waypoint: uncover architectural secrets, local legends, and quirky historical trivia.
• Quick-search button for instant lookups in your favorite browser for tickets, museum hours, and dining spots nearby.

📂 4. LOAD & CREATE CUSTOM AUTHOR TOURS (Open JSON)
• Enjoy the preloaded demo route "Classic Saint Petersburg" right out of the box.
• Import any author tour created by travel bloggers, historians, or friends using simple, open JSON files.
• Export the sample JSON file with a single tap to create and share your own personalized city walks.
• Adjustable geofencing radius (in meters) to customize triggers for bustling streets or expansive parks.

🏆 5. ROUTE PROGRESS & REPLAYABILITY
• Built-in tracker keeps count of how many route checkpoints you have visited.
• Easily reset your tour progress at any time to walk the route again or share it with traveling companions.

🔒 PRIVACY & SECURITY FIRST:
• Your location is processed 100% locally on your device in real time.
• No cloud tracking: your movement history is never logged, stored on external servers, or sold to third-party advertisers.
• Clear privacy policy accessible directly within the app.

🚀 HOW TO GET STARTED:
1. Launch the app and explore the built-in "Classic Saint Petersburg" tour, or import your own JSON route file in Settings.
2. Grant location permission and switch on the "Auto" toggle in the top bar.
3. Put on your headphones, start your stroll, and let "Authors Travel Guides" narrate the wonders around you!