Echobul: Istanbul Audio Guide

Echobul is an audio guide for walking Istanbul on your own. Start a walk, put your phone in your pocket, and each stop tells its story as you reach it. No group, no fixed start time, no screen to stare at. HOW IT WORKS Pick a walk and start it where you are. The app follows your location, buzzes as you get close and plays the story when you arrive. Pause, go back or skip a stop from the lock screen or your headphones. The map shows the way to the next stop. 17 WALKS Sultanahmet: the Hippodrome, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the Basilica Cistern. This one is free, no account needed. Inside Topkapı Palace The Grand Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar Süleymaniye and Sinan's hill Galata and Beyoğlu Balat and Fener Kadıköy and Moda on the Asian side Üsküdar along the water The Bosphorus shore from Dolmabahçe to Ortaköy Arnavutköy, Bebek and Rumeli Fortress Eyüp and Pierre Loti Büyükada, the largest of the Princes' Islands Karaköy and Tophane The seaward side of Sultanahmet, down to Kumkapı Kuzguncuk and Beylerbeyi Zeyrek to Edirnekapı and the land walls Samatya and Yedikule 134 stops with stories, plus 13 optional food stops where locals eat. Every stop has a photo, and many have opening hours and ticket notes with the date we last checked them. More walks are on the way. MADE FOR WALKING Download a walk before you go: its stories, photos and route then work without mobile data. The street map only shows areas you have already opened, so look over the walk once while you are online. Each walk tells you its length, walking time and whether the streets are flat or hilly. TEN LANGUAGES Every story is recorded in English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Korean, and the app itself is in the same ten languages. THE PASS Sultanahmet is free. An Echo Pass opens every walk for the number of days you choose, from 1 to 60. You pay once and nothing renews. The stories are read by an AI voice, from texts we wrote and checked against sources. No ads and no third-party trackers. Sign in with Google only if you want your pass and progress on another phone. Echobul is made by OWL APP LTD. Questions: [email protected]

First release. 17 audio walks across Istanbul, each stop told in 10 languages. Sultanahmet is free and needs no account.