U-tour narrates the street you're on — landmark by landmark, streaming in ahead of you and dropping away behind. Start it, pocket your phone, and run.
Audio guides expect you to stand still. U-tour is built the other way round: it reads your direction of travel and works the street ahead.
A forward cone, sized to your pace, watches for what you're about to pass. The faster you move, the further it reaches — so each story starts early and finishes as the landmark arrives.
Every landmark gets a story written for listening, spoken in a real voice. Dial the depth from a single line to a deep dive, and the pacing from back-to-back to widely spaced.
Direction comes from the way you actually travel — not from a compass in a pocket. What you've passed drops out of the tour, and stays on the map.
Every demo drives the real engine — the same heading math, the same narration, only the movement is simulated. Pick one in the app and hear exactly what a run there sounds like.
Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the Embankment — at a full run, with the story keeping pace with your stride.
Tour Saint-Jacques, the Hôtel de Ville, the Pompidou a street north — something worth a sentence every twenty metres.
The Vittoriano, Trajan's Forum, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum — each ruin worth three or four paragraphs.
Nelson's Column and Charing Cross at a walking pace — the middle of the tuning space.
Coit Tower, Pioneer Park and the climb up Telegraph Hill, taken at a training pace.
The HSBC lions, the Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong Park — threaded through the footbridge network.
The Promenade, Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline — what the app sounds like when it isn't trying to keep up with you at all.
The demos are just the canned ones. Point U-tour down any street with a story and it fetches, writes and speaks as you go.
The Deep Dive demo mid-run: landmarks queueing up ahead, the heading read from movement, and the story of Parliament Square arriving right as it comes into view.
Captured in the iOS Simulator · narration is spoken aloud in the appU-tour is heading to TestFlight — bring your favourite running route and a pair of headphones.
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