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The best app for the curious traveler.

You'll love exploring with World Tree.

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Home: voices nearby
A conversation with a guide
Hidden history What actually happened here Unique food Where a food guide would send you Stays with character Rooms that belong to a place Take a selfie with legends Photos with the historical figure who was here Local playlists Tuned to the place and the hour
9,800+ guides 2,000+ regions 2,400+ curated experiences
Daily Place · the daily guessing game

Where am I from?

A guessing game with one hidden place a day. Read the clues — food, landmarks, nature, more — and see if you can guess where in the world it is.

Play today's place
The Daily Place game on a phone: a clue to read, then guess the hidden place by city.
Meet a Guide

Each place has its own guides.

Every city has a full cast. Each guide shows you a different part of the place.

History Local Food Language Nature Transit Weather Myth

The cast in Seattle.

Talk to a guide in the app
How it feels

Like having friends in every city.

Real questions, real guides. The moment you ask, whoever actually knows picks it up.

How World Tree makes each place magical
The local resident

Get the feel of great stays

Tell the app your vibe. Get a short, opinionated list of places worth remembering. Not the generic ones.

Each guide's own shortlist · real editorial · one or two cards in, you're sold
Find your stay in the app
The food guide

Things to do

Describe what you're in the mood for. Get two or three specific, memorable things to actually do. Not a top-10 list.

Tuned to the hour · real editorial · one insider tip per pick
Plan your day in the app
The local guide

Local tales

Real stories from anywhere you explore in the world. Sourced from local archives, told in the voice of a guide who's rooted in that place.

110+ stories · voiced as locals
Story
The Great Seattle Fire
Seattle
0:00 / 4:58
Story
Siege of Mostar
Bosnia
0:00 / 3:13
Story
The Great Fire of Edinburgh, 1824
Scotland
0:00 / 4:33
Story
The desert-adapted elephants of Kunene
Namibia
0:00 / 3:08
Open in the app
The language guide

Playlist for right here

A playlist for this place, this hour, this walk. A guide's mix of tracks that sound like where you are.

A playlist per region · picked by a guide rooted in the place · tuned to the hour
Explore playlists in the app
The history guide

Selfie with history

Pose with a historical figure from wherever you're standing and share easily however you'd like.

Thousands of figures · every era · every landmark
Maya how's mexico city?? 13:14
ummmm13:16 ✓✓
With Frida Kahlo
Frida invited me into Casa Azul 🌺
13:17 ✓✓
Sam you in DC yet? 09:11
brace yourself09:13 ✓✓
With Abraham Lincoln
Abe at the Memorial 🎩 cherry blossoms everywhere
09:14 ✓✓
Jules how's florence babe 16:40
you won't believe this16:42 ✓✓
With Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo. casually. Duomo in the back 🤯
16:43 ✓✓
Alex you in kyoto yet? 08:38
guess who i met08:40 ✓✓
With Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki. actual Murasaki. she said hi 🤯
08:41 ✓✓
Try it in the app
Personalized

Tuned to you. Remembers what you're into.

Your guides pick things up as you go. Your tastes, your limits, what you're after this trip. It all stays in the app, surfaced when it helps.

REMEMBERS THINGS LIKE
Enjoys people-watching & street eats Wants a story at every stop Reading The Covenant of Water Admires Frida Kahlo Theravada Buddhist practice Kids love bead shops Açaí on surfing days
Ahangama, Sri Lanka ⌄
History
Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala
Theravada scholar-monk
1827–1911
Influential 19th-century Sinhalese Buddhist monk, scholar, and educational reformer. Revived monastic education across the island's southern coast.
What should I do tomorrow morning?
Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala
Kathaluwa Purwarama, twenty-minute walk. Eighteenth-century temple, ceiling paintings most tourists miss. Morning chant at 6, side hall for the Theravada sit. Quiet before the village arrives at 7:30.
Sayulita, Mexico ⌄
Local
Celestino Brambila
marine biologist · Puerto Vallarta coast
Local, present
Moved up the coast after coral-bleaching research in the Sea of Cortez. Knows every reef, every morning break, every café the surfers come back to.
Breakfast near the main break?
Celestino Brambila
Anchor Café on Calle Delfín, two blocks off the plaza. Açaí bowl, the surf-day morning order. Best smoothie bowl in town. Queue hits by 9.
Marrakech, Morocco ⌄
Local
Asmae Oukassi
textile designer · local in Marrakech
Local, present
Sustainable textile designer who sources natural dyes from cooperatives in the Atlas foothills. Knows every bead lane in the kissaria.
In Marrakech with the kids. Anything for this afternoon?
Asmae Oukassi
Souk Semmarine. Beads start in the third lane past the Rahba Kedima fountain. Loose stones the kids can handle, one at a time. Ask for the blue glass tray near the back.
And also

All the things World Tree quietly does.

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Trip detection
Knows when you arrive somewhere new without you saying.
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A travel journal
Conversations, selfies, tours archived as you go.
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Memory across guides
Tell one guide your dietary needs, every guide knows.
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Real photo grounding
Tiles backed by actual photos and verified facts, not generic stock.
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Audio narration
Stories and tours play as voice, hands-free.
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Multi-city trips
Guides track your trajectory and pick up across cities.
From the people using it

What travelers notice first.

I was planning on a Boston museum but found out today was a holiday. Needed alternatives. Found two or three interesting places in the list, learned more about each, and picked one — the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum.
Survey respondent · a day in Boston
Honestly, it's a nice collection of activities — a mix of food, museums, and local events that not many people would know about unless you lived here.
Survey respondent · exploring a new city
It baked buffer time into my itinerary for weekday traffic, and I didn't even ask. That's the kind of thing I'd have missed until I was sitting in it.
Marcus · a day in Salt Lake City
I never told it where I was. It just knew. With ChatGPT I'm saying "Salt Lake City" every other message.
Priya · first trip using the app
It tells you what time to visit a place because of the crowds. That kind of information helps you understand the place — and the right time to go.
Survey respondent · timing a visit
I got three places, not fifteen. That alone saved me twenty minutes and a headache.
Lena · dinner in Kuala Lumpur
About

Every place has roots.

The World Tree is an old symbol: the roots below, the branches above, one trunk holding a place together. We're building a living archive of that idea, one city at a time. A network of local intelligences, each carrying the character of its environment. Part travel guide. Part cultural preservation. Part mirror of human experience.

When travelers use the World Tree Travel app

For these moments.

When you're dreaming of somewhere. When a free moment turns curious. When something catches your eye. When the day is yours to shape.

Dreaming
You're thinking about going.
A place you saw in a photo, a friend's story, a song. You want the vibe before you commit.
A free moment
A café, a lobby, a tour stop that runs long.
Ten free minutes. Something you passed earlier starts tugging at you. You follow it.
Catches your eye
A plaque you can't read. A building older than the others.
You know it means something. You want to know what.
Morning of
A new day in a new city.
You want the kind of day you'll remember. Not the one every guidebook sells.
As you go
Walking somewhere with time.
A turn in the street, a smell from a doorway, a sound in the alley. You ask what it is.
Later
Back home. A question surfaces.
You think of the shop across from the cathedral. Your guide remembers you were there, picks it up.

The world speaks. Are you listening?

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