In Safari tap the Share icon next to the address bar.
In the panel tap View More.
Tap Add to Home Screen.
Tap Add in the top right corner. The guide will open from your Home Screen like an app.
Open the browser menu (⋮) and choose “Add to Home screen”.
Click the Install icon in your browser’s address bar to add it.
You are not in Melbourne
The guide speaks when the GPS brings you to a place, so here it would stay silent. Let it drive the route for you instead: in a minute you will hear how it tells you which way to look.
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The free 5 minutes of the podcast have been used.
Unlock the full Melbourne audio guide
This part of the guide is not unlocked on this device.
The map stays free — keep it open to see what is around you. The audio (every attraction and the podcast) unlocks with access:
Allow GPS access in your browser. When you press Start Audio Tour, the browser will ask for location permission — tap Allow. Without GPS the tour cannot trigger commentary as you move.
Set your screen to never sleep.iPhone: Settings → Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never. Android: Settings → Display → Screen timeout → longest option.
On foot, use headphones (wired or Bluetooth) so you hear each story clearly over the street noise.
By car, plug into a charger and connect to the car Bluetooth or AUX — GPS and audio drain the battery fast, and this way all passengers hear the commentary.
📍 During the tour
Press Start Audio Tour — the interest categories menu opens automatically.
Tick the categories you want (Historical, Nature, Shopping, Wildlife, Photo), then press Done.
Tap DOWNLOAD ROUTE under the map and pick one of three routes: 🚶 WALKING THE CITY (10.2 km), 🚶 SOUTHBANK & DOCKLANDS (9.2 km) or 🚗 MELBOURNE DRIVING TOUR (149 km). It loads onto the map as a dotted blue line. Just follow it. Or take your own route — the story of each place starts by itself as you reach it.
Both GUIDE and PODCAST are ON by default (lit buttons) — everything plays automatically as you walk or drive. You can turn off either button any time:
Tap PODCAST — button fades. Only the stories of the places play as you reach them (the podcast between places stops). Tap GUIDE — button fades. Nothing plays automatically — tap ▶ Listen on any card to play that place manually.
🔴 Reset (red R button, top-left next to the day/night toggle): the tour remembers which places you have already heard on this device — even the next day — and won't repeat them. If the cards look greyed-out (marked ✓ Played) and stay silent as you pass them — that's why. Tap the red R to erase that history so the whole tour plays again from the start — for the second walk, the drive, or another day. It also clears the route from the map, so you can load another one. Works in the full version of the guide.
🗺️ Map controls: tap the compass icon to switch North Up / Heading Up — Heading Up turns the map with you and tilts the view like a car navigator. Two-finger gestures are enabled: twist to turn the map, slide both fingers up or down to tilt, pinch two fingers together to zoom out or spread them apart to zoom in. On a computer hold Ctrl and drag; + / − to zoom. Tap any pin to bring that place’s card to the top of the list.
🗺️ Choose your route
Start the tour first, then pick a route. The guide needs a moment to work out which way you are heading — the status line at the top shows it. Two ways to go:
1. On this page, no app
Pick a route and it is drawn on this map. Keep the page open, follow the dotted line on foot or by car, and the guide tells the story of every place you reach. Two walks — the city centre, and Southbank with Docklands — and one drive.
2. In the app, your own way
Install the app, put the phone in your pocket and go wherever you like, on foot or by car. The guide speaks about every place you reach, and between places the podcast plays. No route needed.
Bought a guide already? Copy the access link from our email, open the app, tap the box on its first screen — the link drops in by itself if it is on the clipboard — and press LINK IT. The key stays with the app after that.
🔑 Your link, not your phone. What you bought is the access link: open it on any phone, tablet or laptop and the guide moves there. It plays on one device at a time — whichever device opened the link last — so if you switch, just open your link again on the new device.
This is a browser-based phone tour — runs on your phone; in any car the audio plays through your car speakers via Bluetooth, no app download required.
No meeting point, no start time. Wherever you are in Melbourne, the tour starts where you stand: the nearest story plays first, and the list re-sorts itself as you move.
Trams are free in the city centre. Inside the Free Tram Zone you can ride any tram without a ticket — handy for getting between places in the CBD.
Mobile data is required to stream audio. Keep this tab in the foreground — switching apps may reload and restart the tour.
Works on foot or in a car — GPS adapts to your speed.
Tunnels: in road tunnels and underground car parks audio and maps pause until the signal returns.
Manual controls: tap a pin or ▶ Listen on any card to play manually. SORT BY DISTANCE / NUMBER is under the map, next to DOWNLOAD ROUTE. Toggle ☽ for day/night theme.
🎧 SELECT PODCAST opens the contents of the podcast — 64 parts, about 9 hours. First the Melbourne series (16 parts), then Australia today, History, Nature and Thematic podcasts. Tap a topic and it starts there; Close returns you to the map having changed nothing. Left alone, the podcast plays through in its own order between places, and a place always interrupts it.
Fullscreen auto-activates on Start. Exit via Stop Tour, swipe down (mobile), or Esc (desktop).
⚠ Do not reload this page while touring — reloading resets all progress and settings.
By using this tour you agree to our Terms & Conditions. Keep your eyes on the road at all times. Anonymous GPS session data is logged for service improvement.
