# Gesso: Audio Tours

> For Urban Explorers

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1458855777](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1458855777)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1458855777`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gesso, Inc.
- **Category:** Travel
- **Rating:** 4.90 / 5 (211 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.0.63
- **Last updated:** 2023-08-31
- **First published:** 2019-04-10
- **Size:** 68 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gesso-audio-tours/id1458855777)
- **Website:** [http://www.gesso.app](http://www.gesso.app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://gesso.app/privacy](http://gesso.app/privacy)

## Description

Gesso is a new way to explore cities with audio that plays based on your location. Here, you'll find audio experiences anywhere from an immersive moving play to countercultural audio tours that invite you to feel the pulse of the city. As a creator and publisher of site-specific audio content, we celebrate 'place' and the people who shaped it in New York, San Francisco, Florence, Venice, Rome and London.

Named after the primer layer artists apply to a canvas before they tell their stories, Gesso (sounds like: JEH-so) makes next-gen audio guides that go under the surface of a city and through the halls of the most forward-thinking museums.

## Rankings

- #100,323 — Overall

## Review summary

Users love Gesso for GPS-synced, easy-to-follow guided walks across NYC, paired with immersive narration and historical tidbits. The app supports flexible pacing, letting you linger, pause, or resume without hassle, and its simple interface enhances exploration rather than distracts. The NYC tours are well-liked, with many wanting more content in other cities. Minor requests include clearer start-point directions and avoiding external map prompts.

### Pros

- GPS-synced guided walking tours with seamless auto-play
- Engaging, well-produced audio content with sound design and historical facts
- Walk at your own pace with the ability to linger, pause, and resume
- Simple, intuitive, easy-to-use interface that gets out of the way
- Broad NYC tour coverage with variety and potential for expansion to other cities

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