PoGu
Pocket Guide
PoGu
Pocket Guide
PoGu tells you about what you are walking past. No tour group, no guide with an umbrella — and no list of “supported cities” that never includes yours.
“I am the guide in your pocket. Where are we going today?”
— Pogu
Briefly: what we do differently — and why you notice it on the first walk.
Stories are not pre-recorded for a dozen tourist centres. The app builds a walk for the place you are actually in — including the small town nobody has heard of.
A separate section for places the whole city is visible from: roofs, terraces, towers, hills. With opening hours, so you do not climb up to a locked door.
Walk up to a building and the story begins. No hunting for the place in a list and pressing play: the tour keeps going with the phone in your pocket and the screen locked.
“Ask me” works for things that are in no route at all: the odd house on the corner, a monument in a courtyard, a sign everyone walks past.
The interface and the narration speak the traveller’s language. For a European city PoGu can tell the story in almost any language — a new one does not mean rewriting the content.
Every story is built from sources and verified against them before it reaches your ears. A good legend stays a legend — and is called one.
An hour before the train, or a whole day? Mark the places yourself — the app builds a sensible path between them and tells you honestly how long it takes.
You pay for a city once and it is yours for good, together with the language you listen to it in. No monthly charges for a walk you took in May.
Bar roofs, cathedral galleries, town-hall towers, hills over the river. PoGu collects them into their own section, shows the distance and the opening hours — and tells you what exactly to look at from up there.
The route leads by itself: the story starts as you approach a place, and the screen can stay asleep.
openuntil 23:00
Rooftops and viewpoints as their own section, with the distance and the opening hours.
Its dome is still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world — and the hole at its centre is open, so the rain comes in.
Tell me more · 1:40Point the camera at a building and hear its story, even if it is in no route.
A story is built once and then told in the language you picked: the interface, the text and the narration. For a European city that works in almost any language, and adding a new one does not mean writing the content again.
Filled — in the app today. Outlined — next in line.
The app is in testing and not in the stores yet. Write to us and we will send you an early build — for the city you are in, even if no other audio guide has ever heard of it.
In testing · iPhone and Android