# Future History tour guide

> look at it then and now - tour guide through German cities and history

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.extendedvision.futurehistory](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.extendedvision.futurehistory)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.extendedvision.futurehistory`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Extended Vision
- **Category:** TRAVEL\_AND\_LOCAL
- **Downloads:** 23,246
- **Version:** 5.4.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-10
- **First published:** 2016-08-26
- **Publisher country:** DE
- **Size:** 18 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.extendedvision.futurehistory)
- **Website:** [http://www.future-history.eu](http://www.future-history.eu/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.future-history.eu/node/4](https://www.future-history.eu/node/4)

## Description

Future History Tour Guide is an innovative Chrome extension that transforms your smartphone or tablet into a portal through time. By pointing your device at interesting locations in numerous German cities—including Freiburg, Leipzig, Potsdam, and more—you can view historical images overlaid on the current landscape using augmented reality. Users can start self-guided walking tours, navigate with integrated route planners, and listen to audio commentary or read text that reveals hidden stories tied to each place.

Beyond enriching your travel experience, Future History offers partners like city guides and agencies tools to enhance tours and create lasting memories for individuals and small groups. The extension also invites users to become authors by uploading their own historical images and contributing to urban history preservation, monument conservation, and educational projects. Dive into the past from anywhere, or explore the streets of Germany as you merge eras seamlessly in one app.

## Rankings

- #408,119 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE`
- `android.permission.CAMERA`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.extendedvision.futurehistory.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.extendedvision.futurehistory)