How it works
One button starts it, and the guide takes it from there: what it notices up the road, what it says out loud, and every dial you can turn before you go.
Getting started
Open Whistlestop. Press Start Tour. Drive.
Places worth knowing, up ahead
Whistlestop looks down the road in the direction you're heading. It scans a corridor a few minutes out, not a circle around you, so what's behind you stays behind you.
The short story, spoken aloud
Every candidate gets weighed on how good the story is and how close to your line it sits, and the winner gets told. A great tale two miles ahead beats a plaque you're already passing.
Hands stay on the wheel
Whistlestop speaks up on its own. No wake word, no prompts, no asking whether you'd like to hear about something. Deciding is work, and you're driving.
Make it yours
Customize your audio tour
Whistlestop arrives ready for a first drive and then gets out of the way. Pick the voice riding along, the kind of story you want to hear, and how much quiet sits between stops. Set it once and every drive after that sounds like yours.
Nine voices
Warm and bright, deep and resonant, animated storyteller. Pick the one you want riding along. The guide's manner stays the same; the voice is the instrument.
Tour focus
Everything, History, Nature, or Family. Each one changes which places win and which side of the story gets told.
Set the pace
Chatty, Balanced, or Relaxed sets how much quiet sits between stops. A place you've heard about won't come back around for weeks.
Play your own music
Podcasts and playlists dip for the story and come back the moment it ends. Everything plays through the car stereo the way iOS expects.
Works in the background
Open Maps, answer a text, lock the screen. Whistlestop keeps watching the road and keeps talking, so the tour never has to be the thing you're looking at.
Remember the stories
Every story you've heard, saved on your phone. Heart the places worth going back to and get directions later, when you're not the one driving.
And one thing it doesn't have: a microphone. Whistlestop never listens and never asks to. The whole privacy story, in plain English.
Get Whistlestop!
Out now on the App Store, for iPhone. The first fifteen stops are free.
