Wren

Live tour guide app

One guide speaks.
Everyone hears.

Wren sends the guide's voice to each guest's own phone and earbuds, along with slides and a pin on the map.

Guest's screen: your guide is speaking, with a choice of Private or Speaker.

No account

Nothing to sign up for. Open the app and start or join a tour.

No Internet

Phones connect to each other directly over a shared Wi-Fi network. It does not need Internet access.

No tracking

No ads, no analytics, no server. The developer receives no data.

What you can do

Guides
  • Speak to the whole group through their phones.
  • Show slides that open on guests' phones.
  • Share a pin on the map so guests can find the meeting point.
  • Play a recording in place of the microphone.
  • Read questions that guests type.
  • Lock the tour with a room code.
Guests
  • Find a nearby tour and join it in a couple of taps.
  • Listen through earbuds or the phone's speaker.
  • See the guide's slides.
  • See the guide's pin on a map, or follow a compass pointer to it.
  • Send the guide a typed question.

In the app

  • Guide's screen: live, microphone on, one person can hear you.
    Go liveThe guide sees how many people can hear.
  • Guest's screen showing the guide's slide, slide 2 of 20.
    SlidesThe guide's slide opens on each guest's phone.
  • Guest's screen: Ask the guide, with one question shown as sent.
    Ask the guideGuests type a question without interrupting.

There is also an experimental Bluetooth option for places with no Wi-Fi network. It may not work as well as Wi-Fi.