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Self-guided GPS audio tours of Australia

A couple at the Opera House listening to the audio guide Sydney on foot or by car› 180+ places · walking and driving routes English · Русский · 日本語 · 한국어 Sydney light rail tram on George Street Sydney Light Rail tram› The L2 and L3 lines · stories between the stops English · Русский Hanging Rock above the Grose Valley in the Blue Mountains Blue Mountains by car› 63 places · no fixed route English · Русский A smiling quokka at Featherdale Wildlife Park Featherdale Wildlife Park› 34 animal stops · the map of the park English · Русский · 日本語 · 한국어 Autumn vines in the Hunter Valley wine country Hunter Valley wineries› 51 places · the cellar doors and the road there English · Русский St Paul’s Cathedral on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets, Melbourne Melbourne on foot or by car› 90 places · walking and driving routes English · Русский The City Circle tram 35 in central Melbourne Melbourne City Circle tram› 33 places on the free tram 35 loop English · Русский The Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road Great Ocean Road by car› 48 places · to the Twelve Apostles English · Русский A road between rows of vines in the Yarra Valley Dandenongs & Yarra Valley› 34 places · kangaroos, Puffing Billy, wine English · Русский Surfers Paradise and its beach from the Q1 tower Gold Coast by car› 34 places · surf beaches, theme parks, Springbrook English · Русский Four Mile Beach at Port Douglas from Flagstaff Hill Cairns & the Daintree by car› 36 places · Port Douglas, Mossman Gorge, Cape Tribulation English · Русский Marathon runners approaching the Sydney Opera House finish Sydney Marathon course› The 42.2 km course · the map is free English
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1 dayA$35
3 daysA$49
14 daysA$150
30 daysA$199
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Over 18 hours of podcasts about Australia

An audio guide usually goes quiet between the sights. Ours plays podcasts in the gaps: 71 series of stories about Australia, written for our guides and checked for facts. Start them before the trip, listen on the plane if it has Wi-Fi, on the way and between the places — any pass opens all of them. The podcasts stream, so they need an internet connection.

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  • Sydney — the city from its founding to today, the story of the Opera House, Governor Macquarie, and the long rivalry with Melbourne
  • Melbourne and Victoria — the city from its founding to today, how mistakes built modern Melbourne, the gold rush and the birth of Victoria, Ned Kelly’s iron mask, the soldiers who built the Great Ocean Road, the Dandenong Ranges and the Yarra Valley
  • Cities of Australia — Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Cairns, the Gold Coast and Darwin
  • History — Australia from the first people to today, more than fifty thousand years of Aboriginal history, the convicts who built Sydney, the gold rush, Gallipoli and the ANZAC legend, the death of Captain Cook, Lapérouse, Matthew Flinders, the brewer James Squire, and the Pacific from the first navigators to the search for the southern land
  • Australia today — the way of life, Australian English, myths about Australia, larrikins and lost prime ministers, food and coffee, inventions, sport, records, a nation of gamblers, and the wool the country rode on
  • Nature — whales, kangaroos, the platypus and other unique animals, deadly animals (myths and reality), animal invaders, reptiles and birds, Featherdale Wildlife Park, strange plants, the Great Emu War and the Australian sun
  • Travel — the Blue Mountains and the Three Sisters, Mount Kosciuszko, opals, twenty tourist traps of Australia and the traps of New Zealand, and a private tour against a coach
  • Wine — the Hunter Valley: stone, rain and pioneers, and Hunter Semillon; and seven more wine valleys: Mudgee, Orange, the Barossa, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra and Margaret River
Works out which side each place is on, from the way you are actually heading — on any route, in the browser you already have

Your Sydney guide knows
which way to look

An audio guide you open from one link — nothing to download — that works like an app: it analyses your movement speed (walking, cycling or driving) and adapts when it speaks, knows where each landmark sits, and tells you which way to look — voiced in a digital Australian voice chosen for how easily visitors understand it, so it sounds like someone talking to you rather than a machine reading. 180 Sydney attractions in a self-guided audio tour, narrated automatically as you pass them. Wherever you are in Sydney, the tour starts where you stand: no meeting point, no start time, the nearest story first. By Andrew Sorokin, Sydney guide since 2006.

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Why Our Audio Guide Is Different

Open a link, press two buttons, and you’re touring.
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A self-guided Sydney audio tour that opens in your browser — nothing to download to start — and narrates 180+ attractions automatically, telling you which way to look. Open the link on any device and forget about it. A non-stop Australia podcast plays between landmarks, with direction-aware narration ("look on your right" / "look on your left") when you approach each attraction. Like having a 20-year Sydney guide riding next to you. Press Start Tour — GPS activates, Guide Mode turns on automatically, and the Attractions Groups picker opens. Tick your interests (Historical, Nature & Beach, Shopping, Wildlife, Photo), press Done — and drive, cycle or ride a bus. No silence, no boredom, no fumbling for an app the entire ride.

There are exactly two things a browser tab cannot do: stay awake once the screen locks, and keep talking while Google Maps is navigating on top of it. For those we made a companion app — 2 MB, downloads in seconds, no account and no subscription. Everything you buy works in both; the app only adds the pocket and the dashboard. Start in the browser, add it later if you want it — or never.

Why riders never get bored on the entire ride:

Old GPS guides (competitors) Our audio tour
App Store download & sign-up requiredOpen one link in any browser — no account. The app is a 2 MB download
Fixed trigger radius regardless of speedSpeed-adaptive zone — tight for walkers, wide for drivers
"Attraction ahead""Look on your right" / "your left"
Crude radius-only GPS triggerPath projection + bearing detection
Static North-Up mapHeading-Up rotating map — left on map is your left
🔊 Never Goes SilentA non-stop Australia podcast fills every gap — history, wildlife and stories from 20 years of guiding. Near a landmark it switches to that story with a "look on your right" cue, then back.
Advanced Auto-GuideGPS tracks your position and bearing — commentary plays automatically as you approach each attraction. Queues multiple nearby stops.
Day & Night ModeSwitch between light and dark themes for comfortable use at any time of day.
Personalised by InterestPick what you love — Historical, Nature & Beach, Shopping, Wildlife or Photo Sights. The tour filters attractions to match your taste and auto-renumbers your personal route.
Smart SortingSort attractions by distance from you or by route number — the list re-orders itself as you move.
Interactive MapTap any pin on the live map and its attraction card jumps to the top of your list — great for planning ahead.
Adaptive LayoutLandscape mode: map + cards side by side. Portrait mode: classic vertical scroll. Optimised for any screen.
Cars, Bikes & BusesGPS adapts to your speed — works equally well in a car, on a bicycle, or from a hop-on bus seat.
180+ AttractionsOpera House, Harbour Bridge, Bondi Beach, Watson’s Bay, Macquarie Street heritage precinct, Kings Cross, Paddington, and many more.

Questions & Answers

How does it work after I buy?
Access is sold by time — 1 day, 3 days, 14 days or 30 days — and while it lasts it opens every guide we have, in English and in Russian. Pay on this site and your personal access link appears on screen and arrives by email; open it on the phone you will travel with. Buy inside the Android app instead and there is no link to handle at all: the payment goes through Google Play and the guides unlock by themselves.
Does it work on my car screen?
Yes, through Android Auto. Plug the phone into the car and Self Guide App appears among the car’s own apps. The places around you are listed nearest first: one tap plays the story on the car speakers, one tap hands the point to Google Maps and it drives you there while the guide keeps talking. The tour itself can be started from the car screen, so the phone can stay in your pocket. On iPhone the guide plays through the car’s audio over Bluetooth or a cable; CarPlay is not supported yet.
Can everyone in the car hear it?
That is how it is meant to be used. Connect the phone to the car by Bluetooth, by cable or by AUX and the commentary plays on the car speakers for everybody. The buttons on your steering wheel work too — play, pause, next place, previous place — and if a call comes in the story stops and picks up again when you hang up. The access link belongs to one phone, but one phone is all a carful of people needs.
Will the audio keep playing if my phone screen locks?
In our app, yes. Install it — on Android it is a 2 MB download, on iPhone it comes from the App Store — that download is also what puts the guide on your car screen through Android Auto and the guide keeps talking with the screen off, in your pocket, and over the top of Google Maps while it navigates.
In a browser tab the phone is in charge, not us: iOS Safari and Android Chrome suspend GPS and may pause audio when the screen locks. If you are staying in the browser, keep the tab in front and the screen awake — iPhone: Settings → Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never; Android: Settings → Display → Screen timeout → the longest option — and plug into a car charger.
Do I need mobile data or Wi-Fi?
Yes — a continuous mobile data connection is required. Audio and map tiles stream on demand. An Australian SIM with pre-paid data works perfectly; hotel Wi-Fi is fine only while stationary. In tunnels and dead-zones (Sydney Harbour Tunnel, underground car parks) the signal drops and the next story may wait until it returns.
What happens if I reload the page or close the app?
Nothing is lost. Your progress lives on our server, not in the browser: which places you have already heard, where you were in the podcast, your settings. Open your link again — on the same phone or a new one — and the tour carries on from where it was, not from the beginning.
Which guides does one pass open?
All of them — twelve guides: in and around Sydney and Melbourne, and in Queensland, the Gold Coast and Cairns. Sydney — 180+ attractions and a long Australia podcast that fills the gaps between them, plus the Sydney Light Rail and the Sydney Marathon course. Self-drive, with no fixed route: the Blue Mountains (63 places), the Hunter Valley (50 places), the Great Ocean Road (48 places), the Dandenong Ranges and the Yarra Valley (34 places), the Gold Coast (34 places) and Cairns, Port Douglas and the Daintree (36 places). Featherdale Wildlife Park — a story for each animal on the map of the park. Melbourne — 90+ places on foot or by car — and its City Circle tram. Most guides are in English and Russian, Sydney and Featherdale also in Japanese and Korean, and every new guide we add is included while your access runs.
Can I try it before paying?
Yes. Open the Sydney guide and tap START SIMULATION — it drives the route for you and plays the stories, so you can hear exactly how it behaves before you spend anything. On the road, five attractions and five minutes of the podcast are free.
What is the Professional plan for?
The 30-day pass is meant for drivers and guides who play the commentary for their passengers day after day, and for a long trip where the guide is used every day.
I had a problem after payment — help!
Email [email protected] with your receipt and your access will be sorted within the hour.

How this compares with other audio guides →

The well-known platforms are excellent at what they do — the comparison is about what a guide built for moving through a city can do that a library of recorded walks cannot. See twelve platforms side by side: coverage, hours of audio, install size and what plays with the screen off →