# Pricing — Guideling

Guideling is an audio travel guide for iPhone that narrates places as you pass
them. The first five stories are free and never expire. Once they are used it
goes quiet, mid-trip if need be, until there is a pass. A pass keeps it talking,
sold for a number of travelling days.

Last updated: 2026-10-03. Prices are US App Store prices; Apple sets the
equivalent in every other storefront and the app always displays the local one.

## Free trial

- Price: $0
- Account required: no
- Includes:
  - The first five stories, at full quality, on any road
  - A place tapped on the map to hear it counts as one of the five
  - They never expire — a week at home uses none unless one is tapped
  - "Tell me more" and "What is that on the right?" on all five
  - No adverts, no tracking, no data sold
- Does not include: asking open-ended questions out loud
- Once the five are used it goes quiet — mid-trip, if that is where they run
  out — until a pass is bought

## 1-day pass

- Price: $2.99 (one-off in-app purchase, does not renew)
- Per day: $2.99
- Duration: 1 travelling day, 24 hours from when it starts: on purchase if no pass is running, otherwise at the first new story after that pass ends and the free stories are used, mid-trip included
- Includes everything the app says out loud:
  - Unlimited stories about places, landscapes and regions
  - "Tell me more" and "What is that on the right?"
  - Open-ended spoken questions

## 3-day pass

- Price: $4.99 (one-off in-app purchase, does not renew)
- Per day: $1.66
- Duration: 3 travelling days, counted from when it starts
- Includes: everything in the 1-day pass

## 7-day pass

- Price: $9.99 (one-off in-app purchase, does not renew)
- Per day: $1.43
- Duration: 7 travelling days, counted from when it starts
- Includes: everything in the 1-day pass

## Always free, with or without a pass

- The map, the destination field and route planning, including downloading a
  planned route for offline use
- Narration in every language the app has, and switching between them
- The written record of everything it has already told you

## Notes

- There is no subscription of any kind and nothing to cancel.
- A pass starts when it can be useful: on purchase if none is running, and
  otherwise at the first new story after that one ends and the free stories
  are used, even mid-trip. Nothing counts down while one sits unstarted.
- The trial is counted in stories rather than days for the same reason: a
  seven-day clock would burn down through a week you spent at home.
- A daily ceiling on questions bounds abuse. It is far above ordinary use.
- A pass buys the app rather than one feature of it. Most of what Guideling
  does costs us nothing to serve — a story is written once for a place and read
  to everyone who passes afterwards — so charging only for the expensive part
  would mean charging for the part nobody came for.

Full page: https://guideling.app/pricing.html