Autio: Road Trip & Travel App

Description

Autio - Audio for Travel *** Apple App of the Day, Apps We Love, & New & Noteworthy *** Webby Award Winner for Best Travel App Ready to take travel to the next level? Autio has 20,000+ location-based audio stories in America and around the world. Try your first 5 stories free - no strings attached - then choose a plan for 30 Days, 1 Year, or 3 Years. Ever curious about the deeper story behind that bronze historical marker you passed on the highway? Autio is an invitation to discover — a hands-free experience that delights, informs, & entertains by fostering a deeper connection with the people, places, & histories of the land you are traveling through. With rave reviews from Forbes, Travel & Leisure, The New York Times, Outside, TechCrunch, & more! FEATURES: NARRATED BY YOUR FAVORITE VOICES — Many of our stories are narrated by voices you know and love like Kevin Costner, Phil Jackson, John Lithgow, and more. DISCOVER INTERESTING STORIES — Autio notifies you when you’re in range of new stories you haven’t heard yet. ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW — New stories are released weekly, so no two trips are ever the same. GROWING COVERAGE — Unique stories from across America and beyond. FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS — Audio stories keep your eyes off your phone and on your beautiful surroundings. HOW IT WORKS As you travel, Autio serves up stories based on your geographic location & interests. The audio vignettes, generally 2-3 minutes in length, tell the history around you, painting a multi-dimensional picture you’re unlikely to get from a history book or visitor's guide. Autio answers the questions we all ask as the odometer turns. ABOUT AUTIO Humans are moved by stories. Stories that make us laugh and cry. They move us to come together and do amazing things. Since the dawn of time, stories have been the way in which values and knowledge are passed from one generation to the next — each adding their wisdom and experience along the way. It’s time to connect with the sum of our experience, to enrich our lives with the stories of today, and to inspire the great storytellers yet to come.

Recent Reviews

• ★★★★★Grovero

  Great travel companion

  Also good value, Reasonably priced, enjoyed on several trips but need to use more often just forget sometimes

• ★★★★★Kevil23

  Amazing Travel App!

  I love the stories! I travel a lot for work and I love learning about places I travel to. I even learned about things I never knew about in my home town. Can’t recommend this app enough!!

• ★★★★★SchryverE

  Love it!

  This app is great. Awesome companion for any roadtrip

• ★★★★★Paigeleesams

  Best Travel Audio App

  Autio is the best! Plays stories about the locations around me and helps me learn so much on road trips.

• ★★★★★BillWallace

  Highly recommend

  This app really added to our trip as it gave us insights that we would not have known about otherwise and didn’t have to spend a lot of time reading in a guidebook. We could just hear the stories as we were driving from one place to the next. Really cool. Looking forward to using it again with our family.

• ★★★★★Shawn c

  You don’t need my location 24/7

  The good: We’re really enjoying the stories so far and looking forward to many more for an upcoming road trip. The bad: the endlessly nagging pop-up trying to get me to turn on background location. It makes me wonder what they’re doing with this data and why they want it so badly. When I want road stories, I’ll open the app— otherwise it’s none of your business where I am.

• ★★★★★Cc78hhu

  AI readers

  If I had known it was mostly AI readers, I wouldn’t have subscribed. The mispronunciations and stilted audio is driving us crazy.

• ★★★★★Brman99

  Disappointed

  I saw a recommendation for this app, and thought it sounded like a good idea as I was about to leave on a trip to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. This was the first time traveling in this area, and I thought getting the audio info while driving would be great. I will admit that the stories and information provided in the app are great, will good narrators. The bad part of the app is the navigation of the app and the overall GPS capabilities. Our rental car had CarPlay, so I was expecting to start driving pull up the app with a map, and either select stories on the map, or have them automatically play as we approached an area. Instead, the app would play one story after another, with not real relation to where we were. The app seems to want to play what is the next closest story that has not yet been played. So after listening to the stories in the Olympic peninsula, it started to play stories on islands, and in Canada that were nowhere near where we were. Selecting what we wanted to listen to was challenging, because it wants you to create and use a playlist which is not viable to do within CarPlay while driving. It was very frustrating to extract the stories we wanted to hear in the places where we wanted to hear them. At the end of the trip, we spent a day in Seattle, and the app is extremely worthless in a big city. The map is plastered with all these markers for stories, that I guess would just randomly play based on gps, and what was close by that was not played, even if it was miles away. We stopped using it out of frustration. I have used other travel info GPS apps that are so much better than this. I think Autio put too much effort into the stories, with very little real world usability testing. The apps that get it right are "Kauai Revealed Drive Tour". It was perfect, because it played the relevant info as you approached a site, not just because it is the closest unplayed story. The other great travel app is "GPSmyCity". Although it does not have narration, just text to voice, it provides a walking tour with a map. For over 1500 cities around the world. This would be a much better experience in Seattle compared to Autio. I purchased a subscription because I expected a great app, but I will say I am extremely disappointed. There needs to be a lot usability work on this app before I could recommend it to anyone.

• ★★★★★Frustrated 123454321

  Junk

  It’s garbage. Notifications don’t work. There’s nothing automated about it. No integration into anything else. If I kept the app open and watched the map I could click a story. That was it. CarPlay app is even worse.

• ★★★★★Dklesel

  No historical markers??

  I just downloaded this app and there are not to many stories around my area. There isn’t a story for Bluebell in Brenham that is crazy! Texas is so rich with stories of things that have happened. Also have the developers considered adding all the historical markers to the app? I believe that would make this even better. Overall the app is really good from what I can tell just lacking stories that could be a great addition. I really hope that the developers see this and add the Texas historical markers.