Tour guide development
Custom tourism website and app development
Whistlestop works with cities and destinations who want a GPS powered tour guide of their own: an app that talks to visitors while they travel your roads, and a website that shows off what they will find when they stop.
Turnkey design and development, tailor made for your destination.
What we build
GPS guided audio tour apps
Stories that start themselves. A visitor drives, rides or walks your route, and the guide speaks up as each place comes into view. Nothing to type, no stop numbers to punch in, no QR code bolted to a post at the trailhead.
Custom voiceover
The voice is the product, so you choose it: a local historian, a park ranger, a narrator you cast, or a synthetic voice tuned to your script. Every stop is written to be spoken, then mastered for a car stereo and a phone speaker.
Websites that show off your attractions
The same stops, published as pages a search engine can find. Every attraction gets an address, a photograph, a map and the story, so the trip starts weeks before anyone arrives.
All three are built around one destination: yours. Your name on the app, your palette, your stops, your voice. Not a template with a logo dropped in the corner.
Already running
We ship this for ourselves first
Whistlestop is a live GPS audio tour guide on the App Store, with real drivers listening to it right now. The app, the narration, the stop dataset and this website are all ours, in production, maintained every week.
A custom project starts from that instead of from a blank page, which is why a destination guide is measured in weeks rather than in research phases. You can hear the result before you commit to anything: how the guide works.
- 550,000+
- places the guide can already reach and narrate
- 21
- long form route guides published on this site
- 9
- narrator voices in the shipping app
How a project runs
Six stages, and you sign off on each one before the next starts. Nothing here needs a developer on your staff.
We go through the route with you
Before anything gets built we map the destination together: the roads visitors actually take, the places they drive straight past, the stories only your people know. That map is the project, and this is the stage where changing it is free.
The stops get written
Each stop is a short piece written to be heard rather than read. Your archives, your historians and your rangers are the sources, and everything is checked back against them before a word is recorded.
Voice and sound
Casting, recording, edit, master. You hear every stop before a visitor does, and anything that does not sound like your destination gets rewritten until it does.
The app
A GPS guided app under your own name, on the App Store. It looks down the road ahead and announces what is coming, hands free, and it keeps talking on the back roads where the signal gives out.
The website
Your attractions as real pages: photographs, maps, directions, the story, and the itineraries that tie them into a day out. Built to be found by search, and built so your team can add to it.
Launch, then upkeep
Store listing, artwork, launch copy, and numbers that tell you which stops visitors actually hear. Adding a stop after launch is a form your staff fills in, not a software release.
Who this is for
Cities and downtowns
A walking loop that explains the buildings people photograph.
Tourism boards
One guide that covers a whole county or region, not a single site.
Museums and historic sites
The story continued outside the building, all the way to the parking lot.
Heritage and cultural trails
Stops spread across fifty miles, tied together by one voice.
Tell us about your destination
The more you can say about the route and the people who travel it, the more useful the first reply is. A person reads every one of these, and you will not get an autoresponder with a calendar link in it.
Would you rather just email? support@whistlestop.guide reaches the same people.