How Naruho works
Three steps, no accounts, no tutorials. Open the app, walk, and Naruho tells you the story of what you are looking at.
1. Walk anywhere
Open Naruho in any city in the world. There are no city packs to download. The app reads your location and pulls the real artefacts around you from OpenStreetMap, the same map data that powers most of the open web.
2. Naruho detects what's nearby
Within forty metres of where you stand, Naruho lists the named landmarks, hidden chapels, sculptures, fountains, and historical artefacts. Tap any one of them. You will see a card with the most interesting facts about that place.
3. Get the aha in seconds
Each card is three to five sentences. One surprising angle. A story arc. The kind of fact you will actually repeat at dinner. On Pro, tap play and a studio-quality narrator reads the story to you while you keep walking, hands-free.
What makes Naruho different
It is not a tour. It is not a route. It is the discovery layer most apps forgot to build.
Stories, not Wikipedia walls
Most travel apps copy-paste encyclopaedia entries. Naruho's stories are short and structured: a hook, a strange fact, a payoff. Three to five sentences each.
AI plans tuned to your mood
Type "hidden chapels in the old town" or "top espresso bars locals use". Naruho turns the prompt into a walking route through real places that fit.
Personalised to what you care about
Sights, food, history, art, nature. Pick what catches your eye. The discoveries Naruho surfaces filter to match.
Ask the guide, mid-walk (Pro)
Heard something that caught your ear? Tap Ask during an ambient session and speak a question. Your voice is transcribed on-device and never leaves your phone. A thirty-second answer follows.
Proximity nudges, opt-in
Naruho can tap you on the shoulder when you walk near somewhere notable, with a notification that says "There's a story here." Local-only, capped per day, off until you turn it on.
The boring details, written plainly
Naruho works on iPhone, iOS 17 and above. There is no Android app yet. There is no account, no sign-up, no email, no password. Open the app and start.
When you ask the guide a question, Naruho transcribes your voice on the device using Apple's on-device speech recognition. The audio never leaves your phone. Only the transcribed text is sent to our backend to generate the answer, and only place-related questions get a response. The classifier refuses anything else (restaurants, weather, directions) with a short message.
Proximity story notifications are local-only. There is no remote push server. The app schedules region triggers on your phone, fires the notification when you walk within range, and the cap is enforced locally too. You can change the daily limit or turn the feature off in Settings.
The free tier gives you ten place discoveries per day, three custom AI plans every two days, and thirty minutes of hands-free ambient walking mode each day, where the app picks up what you walk past and narrates it as you go. That is enough for a real day of exploring. Pro is $0.06 a day after a three-day free trial. Pro unlocks unlimited discoveries, unlimited plans, unlimited ambient walking mode, and studio-quality narration.
Your location stays on your device. We do not sell your data. We do not have advertising. We do not run analytics that follow you across other apps. The app is the product, not your behaviour. Read the full detail in the privacy policy.
Naruho works anywhere on the map. Tokyo temples. Parisian cafes. The street outside your flat. There is no "city not supported" wall. We pull the artefacts from OpenStreetMap and ground the AI's stories in Wikipedia and OSM tags so it does not invent buildings that do not exist.
Ready to start walking?
Free to try. Pro from $0.06 a day. Three-day free trial.