Features & Capabilities

Drive Stories : Location-Based Audio Stories

*** 2025 Fast Company Innovation Award *** 2025 Online Design Award
*** 2026 Webby Award Nominee

Discover a new way to experience your drives with Drive Stories, an innovative audio travel app that brings locations to life. As you travel, Drive Stories delivers captivating, location-based factual stories about the places you pass through—whether it’s the history of a small town, the lore of a landmark, or fascinating facts about your surroundings. Perfect for road trips, commutes, or spontaneous adventures, the app transforms every journey into an immersive narrative experience.

Designed for seamless in-car use, Drive Stories is fully compatible on Apple iOS devices and Apple CarPlay, ensuring safe and easy access to stories while keeping your focus on the road. Simply launch the app, choose a location and category, and enjoy audio stories tailored to your route.

Your first 5 stories are free - no strings attached - then choose a monthly or annual plan.

Drive Stories is an invitation to discover — a hands-free experience that delights, informs, & entertains by fostering a deeper connection with the people, places, & histories of the places you are traveling through.

Awarded by some of the top industry experts, including a 2025 Fast Company Innovation Award. Download the app today and experience one of the smartest and most robust travel apps on the market.

FEATURES:

  • Integrated into Apple CarPlay for seamless use while driving
  • Available in over 40 languages
  • Choose from 15 categories from any location you select
  • Choose from 10 different voices to find the one you like to listen to the most
  • Choose ANY location in the world, wherever you are
  • Focus on what matters - audio stories keep your eyes off your phone and on your surroundings

ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, DRIVE STORIES WORKS

The app will automatically find your GPS coordinates and based on your geolocation, will identify 10 of the nearest cities, towns and villages near you. Simply tap a location and category and hit play.

SELECT FROM 15 CATEGORIES

  • Introduction (of Location)
  • Important People
  • Wildlife & Nature
  • Economy & Industry
  • Food
  • Architecture
  • Sport
  • Political & Social
  • For Kids
  • Points of Interest
  • Art, Literature & Music
  • Science & Innovation
  • Entertainment
  • Local Language
  • Weird & Wonderful

ABOUT DRIVE STORIES

Drive Stories is a passionate return to the open road and the driving experience, helping unlock location stories from all around the world - allowing us to create enjoyable moments of open-road freedom and a leading example of how technology can help unlock knowledge and information in an exciting new way. Drive Stories wants to make every drive a memorable one, no matter where the road takes you.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Thomas Moeller
Rating:
3.30
(4)
Version:
1.0.4 Last updated: 2026-04-13
Version code:
884389484
Creation date:
2025-11-04
Compatible devices:
Size:
52.90MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-06
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Developed by:
Thomas Moeller
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/drive-stories/id6743227880
Website:
http://www.drivestories.com

User Reviews

We have listened to the app on several road trips and have discovered some new attractions and learned a lot of new things about our home state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Listening near the Columbia River gorge, we HAD to go over the Bridge of the Gods! We hadn’t ever seen or heard of it until this app! The first thing I did is test the accuracy of our hometown and it was spot on! Such a great idea!
by Se*****, 2026-02-06

So easy to use and the whole family enjoys the app. Graphics are beautiful and it’s easy to use. What a fantastic concept and creation!
by se*****, 2025-11-20

I got an email that this app was now released and was a little disappointed to find out that this is a subscription only plan (outside of a free trial). However I’m not upset about that and I understand why it would be a paid subscription. The main issue is that I turned on my location and it gave me several neighborhoods (yes, neighborhoods, not towns or cities) near me. Odd but ok. Then I go to play one of the story categories (surprised that my area selection did not influence the story category options) and it starts telling me a story about some random place - a new place each category that I’ve never heard of, nor know where it thinks I am. So I don’t think this is ready for release. Or if this is the free trial to just give you random stories that have nothing to do with your current location - that’s a pointless free trial. It just seems to me like it doesn’t work.
by ll*****, 2025-11-04
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