A storyteller who comes along.
On foot or at the wheel, Virgil narrates what you're passing — the castle on the hill, the plaque you'd have walked straight past, the street with the odd name — ducking politely under your music, the way sat-nav directions do.
Your music plays on. Virgil interrupts only when there's a story.
No headphones-off moment, no tour to follow. Music and Maps run as normal — when something worth telling comes up, the audio dips, Virgil speaks a sentence or two, and your music returns.
Press Start. Pocket your phone. Set off.
Set out
Start a trip and put the phone away. Virgil travels quietly in the background — with your music, your maps, your podcast.
Virgil reads what's ahead
It watches what's coming up around you and researches it before you arrive — from 238,000 places across Britain.
Stories, not a tour
A sentence or two at a time, timed to what you're passing. You choose the topics and the pace; Virgil chooses the moment.
The kind of thing you'll hear.
Glencoe
“Ahead, the road drops into Glen Coe. In 1692, thirty-eight MacDonalds were killed here by soldiers they had fed and housed for twelve days — it's been called the weeping glen ever since.”
The Shambles
“This narrow street is the Shambles. The word meant the shelves butchers hung meat on — the overhanging fronts kept the sun off it, and you can still see the hooks under the eaves.”
Stonehenge
“On your right — Stonehenge. The smaller bluestones were hauled from the Preseli Hills in Wales, 240 kilometres away, by people who hadn't yet invented the wheel.”
The hire car comes with a historian.
Pick up the keys at Edinburgh, Heathrow or Inverness, and the drive to your first stop stops being dead time. Every “what's that?” out the window gets an answer — castles, follies, battlefields, the lot.
Available worldwide on the App Store. The stories cover England, Scotland & Wales.
Forth Bridge
“Off to your right — the Forth Bridge, held together by six and a half million rivets. Painting it end-to-end took so long it became British slang for a job that never finishes.”
A local historian in your pocket.
Wandering a new city — or your own neighbourhood on the walk to work — Virgil tells you what you're strolling past. No tour to book, no route to follow: put your headphones in and go where you like.
The everyday walk becomes something you notice.
The Circus
“You're standing in the Circus — thirty-three houses in a perfect ring, carved with acorns and finished in 1768. Seen from above, it and the Royal Crescent trace a shape its architect, a keen Freemason, never quite explained.”
Be out there before everyone else.
Virgil is in beta on TestFlight ahead of a summer launch. Founding users keep AI Voice free for a year.