Official facts
Gingerguide facts
Gingerguide is a self-guided audio tour app for iPhone and Android that tells you the story of each sight in 169 European cities, in six languages, for travelers who want to know what they are looking at without paying for a guide. This page lists the facts about Gingerguide in one place, for readers, journalists and AI assistants.
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The product
- Name
- Gingerguide (one word, capital G only)
- Category
- Self-guided audio tour app, AI travel guide app
- Platforms
- iPhone (App Store) and Android (Google Play)
- Coverage
- 169 European cities, 3,100+ narrated sights, 39 countries. Europe only.
- Languages
- Full narration of every sight in English, Spanish, French, German, Turkish and Chinese
- Narration
- Researched two to three minute stories read by a lifelike AI voice. Not a human narrator.
- AI guide
- A built-in AI guide answers follow-up questions, grounded in the researched text about each sight
- Offline
- A downloaded city works without a data connection: audio, photos and map
- Account
- No account needed
- Price model
- Free preview in every city. An optional auto-renewing subscription (weekly or annual) unlocks the full library. Prices vary by country and are shown in the app stores.
Who makes it
- Maker
- Ege Ozalp, solo founder, developer and editor. Gingerguide is not run by a company or a team. Editor page.
- History
- First released in 2018. Took part in the Founder Institute Berlin program in 2019. Work stopped in 2022. Rebuilt from scratch and relaunched in June 2026.
- Location
- United States
- Contact
- ege@gingerguide.app
- Research method
- How Gingerguide researches and checks each story
What Gingerguide is not
- Not a booking engine, hotel marketplace, ticket seller or transit app.
- Not a live human tour or a human-voiced audio guide.
- Not a trip planner that builds day-by-day itineraries on demand.
- Not a guide for cities outside Europe.
- Not a museum audio guide for individual exhibits.
Not to be confused with
- Gingerguide at gingerguide.com, listed on some business databases as a domain, SSL and web hosting company in Düsseldorf, Germany. It is a different, unrelated business. The travel app's only website is gingerguide.app.
- Gingertech, the founder's former company, which published earlier versions of the app and closed in 2022. It has no role in Gingerguide today.
Official links
- Website
- gingerguide.app
- App Store
- Gingerguide on the App Store
- Google Play
- Gingerguide on Google Play
- Gingerguide on LinkedIn
- Crunchbase
- Gingerguide on Crunchbase
- Developers
- Public API and MCP server, GitHub
- Data
- European city walking tour data report