Hands-free road-trip audio
A road-trip guide that talks so you don't have to.
Whistlestop watches where you're driving and tells you the story of what you're about to pass. There's nothing to ask and nothing to press. Each stop plays start to finish, and Skip is the only control.
How it works
01
It watches the road ahead
Not a radius around you — a corridor in the direction you're actually heading, projected about three minutes out at your current speed. Things behind you stay behind you.
02
It picks what's worth hearing
Every candidate gets rated for how interesting it actually is, then ranked against how far off your line it sits. A great story two miles ahead beats a plaque you're passing right now.
03
It just tells you
The story is written for the moment you'll hear it and read aloud in the voice you picked. No wake word, no prompt, no screen. Skip if you're not interested.
There is no microphone.
Not disabled, not opt-in, not “only when you press the button.” The app ships without the Speech framework and never asks for microphone permission, because the tour asks you for nothing. A guide that talks at you doesn't need to listen to you.
Your location is used to find what's ahead of you and is not stored on our servers. Your travel log lives on your phone.
Built for the car
Five voices, five temperaments
From a clipped dispatcher to a chatty seatmate who won't stop. The preset changes what gets written, how long it runs, and how it's read — not just the accent.
Kids Mode
Re-ranks everything toward what a seven-year-old would actually sit still for, and rewrites the story to match.
It ducks your music, then gives it back
Podcasts and playlists dip for the story and come back up the moment it ends — not thirty seconds later. Routes to the car stereo the way iOS expects.
Skip from the steering wheel
Next-track on your wheel or lock screen ends the stop. So does the card button. You never have to look at the phone.
Works where the signal doesn't
Our own curated stops live entirely in memory, so the back roads — where there's least to read and most to see — still have something to say.
A log of where you've been
Every stop it told you, kept. Favorite the ones worth going back to, and get directions later, when you're not the one driving.
From the guide
All stops →Military · Massachusetts
The Bloody Angle
A sharp double bend in the old Battle Road where the retreating British column was caught from both sides on April 19th, 1775. The road turns twice in quick succession here, and colonial militia used the cover on either side to fire into the flank of the column as it slowed to make the corners. It was among the deadliest stretches of the entire retreat from Concord back to Boston.
Military · Massachusetts
Meriam's Corner
The junction where the running fight of April 19th, 1775 really began. British troops withdrawing from Concord's North Bridge had to cross a narrow bridge over Mill Brook here, and militia companies arriving from surrounding towns opened fire as they did. From this corner east, the orderly retreat became a sixteen-mile gauntlet.
History · Massachusetts
Paul Revere Capture Site
The stretch of road where Paul Revere's midnight ride ended — not in triumph, but in capture by a British patrol. Revere was riding toward Concord with William Dawes and Samuel Prescott when the patrol stopped them. Prescott jumped a wall and carried the warning the rest of the way; Dawes escaped on foot; Revere was held, questioned, and eventually released without his horse.