🌍 Travel smarter with AI

Every place has a story.
Hear it.

Voice-guided tours of the world's great destinations. Walk the Golden Gate, wander Tokyo's alleys, taste Paris — with a local voice in your ear. Free to start.

22
Recorded tours
190+
Places written
60s
Free on every guide
Tiko the travel buddy exploring the world
🎧 Voice tours
🗺️ 5 cities live
💬 Local stories
🎧22 tours recorded, playable now
📚Sources cited on every guide
👤Every script human-reviewed
💳No card needed to listen
↩️Refund if a guide is wrong

Quick answer

What is G20X? G20X makes self-guided audio tours for real places. Open a guide, press play, and walk — a narrator tells you the history, the arguments, and the detail nobody puts on the plaque. Every guide starts with a free 60-second preview; full guides are $1.49 each, or unlimited from $4.99 a month. English and Traditional Chinese, offline-friendly, no app to install.

Four to six minutes. One place. No homework.

Guidebooks are heavy, group tours are rigid, and reading Wikipedia in the sun is not a holiday.

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Stories, not date lists

Every guide opens with a hook — something surprising and true — then earns the rest of your attention. Written the way a well-read friend would tell it.

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Made for walking

Chapters run 45 to 60 seconds so you can look up between them. Pause at the viewpoint, resume at the corner. No screen-staring, no map-wrestling.

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English and 中文

The same place, told properly in both languages — not a machine translation of an English script. Chinese-language audio guiding is close to nonexistent abroad. That is the gap we fill.

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Works where signal does not

Download before you go and listen in the tunnel, on the trail, or on airplane mode with roaming switched off.

How it works

Three taps from curious to listening.

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Pick a place

Search a city or a single landmark. Every guide shows its length, its narrator and its sources before you commit.

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Press play on the free preview

Sixty seconds, no signup, no card. If the voice and the story do not grab you, close the tab.

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Keep listening while you walk

Unlock the full guide for $1.49, or go unlimited with membership. Downloads stay on your phone.

Hear one right now

Real recordings from the live catalog — the first chapter of each guide, free and unedited.

Golden Gate Bridge
It was never supposed to be orange.
39s preview · full guide 2 min · English narration
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Alcatraz Island
Fourteen escape attempts. One unsolved.
41s preview · full guide 2 min · English narration
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The Cable Cars
A moving national landmark you can ride for eight dollars.
43s preview · full guide 2 min · English narration
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Chinatown
The oldest Chinatown in North America — rebuilt as a stage set.
41s preview · full guide 2 min · English narration
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Muir Woods
Trees that were already old when the Magna Carta was signed.
49s preview · full guide 3 min · English narration
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Apple Park
The last product Steve Jobs presented was a building.
48s preview · full guide 2 min · English narration
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Where we are live

Deep coverage first, then the next city. Ninety-nine written guides and twenty-two recorded tours in the Bay Area alone.

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San Francisco

USA · California
“The Golden Gate Bridge is not, and has never been, red.”
Our home city and the deepest catalog we have: the bridge, the island prison, the cable cars that are legally a moving national landmark, and the Silicon Valley campuses an hour south. Twenty-two guides are recorded and playable right now.
Audio live145 guides22 recorded
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Los Angeles

USA · California
“The Hollywood sign was an advertisement for real estate.”
Beaches, studio backlots, an observatory that has starred in more films than most actors, and the desert light that made the whole industry move here in the first place.
Written guides live · audio in production33 guides
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New York City

USA · New York
“Grand Central's ceiling has the night sky painted backwards.”
Five boroughs, one impossible density of stories: the park that was engineered to look accidental, the terminal that was saved by a First Lady, the bridge that killed its own designer.
Written guides live · audio in production41 guides
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Tokyo

Japan
“Senso-ji was founded by two fishermen who caught a statue.”
A city that rebuilt itself twice in one century and kept its shrines in between the towers. Neon, temples, a fish market that moved, and the world's most punctual train system.
Written guides live · audio in production21 guides
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Kyoto

Japan
“Kiyomizu-dera's stage is held up without a single nail.”
Eleven centuries of capital city, spared by the war and crowded by the world. We write the guides for the hours when the coach tours are somewhere else.
Written guides live · audio in production2 guides
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Taipei

Taiwan
“Taipei 101 hides a 660-tonne golden ball that stops the building swaying.”
Night markets that run on a century-old rhythm, temples wedged between scooter shops, and the mountain trails that start at the end of a metro line.
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Pay per guide, or stop counting

A single guide costs less than a postcard. Membership makes it unlimited — and pays you back on the hotel you were booking anyway.

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Bronze · $4.99/mo

One city, one trip, no ads.

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Silver · $9.99/mo

The frequent traveller's default.

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Gold · $19.99/mo

Everything, for the whole family.

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Why this beats the alternatives

Same afternoon, four ways to spend it.

GuidebookGroup tourG20X
Cost$25 and up$45–120 per personFree preview · $1.49 per guide
Your scheduleYoursTheirsYours
DepthBroad, shallowDepends on the guideOne place, told properly
Hands and eyesOccupiedFreeFree
Chinese languageRarelyRarely abroadEvery guide
Works offlineYesn/aYes

The things people push back on

AI narration? That will sound like a robot.
Listen to thirty seconds before you decide — the previews on this site are the real files, not a demo reel. The voices are trained, paced at a fixed speaking rate, and every recording is transcribed back and compared with the script before it is published.
A dollar forty-nine? It cannot be any good at that price.
Production cost per guide is cents, not hundreds of dollars, because the research pipeline is automated and the narration is synthetic. The expensive part — sourcing, human review, corrections — is where the money goes. Cheap here means efficient, not thin.
I have never heard of G20X.
Correct, we are new. That is exactly why nothing on this site asks you to take our word for it: free previews, published sources, full transcripts, a refund if we are wrong, and a list of things we refuse to do.
Is this just Wikipedia read aloud?
No. Every chapter has to earn its place with something a guidebook does not tell you, and it ends with something to do where you are standing. Wikipedia is one of our sources, not our script.
I already have a guidebook.
Then use both. The guidebook plans the trip; this tells you what you are looking at while your hands and eyes are free. A guide costs less than the coffee you are drinking while you read the book.
What if I buy a pack and you shut down?
Fair question for any small company. Purchased guides download to your device and stay playable offline, which is deliberate — your library does not depend on us staying online.

Facts we can show our work on

Audio is persuasive, which makes it dangerous. A confident voice can make a wrong date sound true, so we built the guardrails first: every specific claim in a script has to trace back to an official site, a national park service, a museum archive or a public record, and the sources travel with the script.

Nothing publishes on a machine's say-so. A human reads every script before it is recorded, and the recording itself is transcribed back and compared to the script word for word — if the narration drifted, the file never reaches you. Where the record is genuinely contested, the guide says so instead of picking the better story.

Why trust a brand new audio guide?

No reviews yet, and we will not invent any. Judge us on what you can check:

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Listen to a whole tour, free

Four complete San Francisco tours, start to finish, no account. If the writing is thin you will know in four minutes.

Play the Golden Gate tour →
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Check our sources

Every guide lists where its facts come from — official sites, park services, museum archives, public records. Follow them and see if we read them right.

See how a guide is made →
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Read the transcript first

Full text sits on every guide page. You can read the whole thing before you spend $1.49 on hearing it.

Open any destination →

Common questions

Do I need an app?
No. Guides play in your phone's browser. Add the page to your home screen if you want it to feel like an app — it will still work offline once the audio is cached.
Is it really free to try?
Yes. Every guide has a 60-second preview with no signup and no card. Four full San Francisco tours are free right now, end to end.
How long is a guide?
A standard guide runs four to six minutes across three to six chapters. Deep dives run ten to fifteen. City walks string several stops into one route.
Who narrates?
Our house narrators, Greg and Ivy. Members can switch voices, and where a guide has a human-recorded flagship version you can choose that instead.
Which languages?
English and Traditional Chinese today. Japanese, Korean and Spanish are next — the script layer is language-independent, so a new language is a translation plus a recording pass, not a rewrite.

Find your X.

Somewhere on the map there is a place worth your attention. Put in your earbuds and let it explain itself.