Echobul: Istanbul Audio Guide
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Echobul is an audio guide for walking Istanbul on your own. Start a walk, put your phone in your pocket, and each stop tells its story as you reach it. No group, no fixed start time, no screen to stare at.
HOW IT WORKS
Pick a walk and start it where you are. The app follows your location, buzzes as you get close and plays the story when you arrive. Pause, go back or skip a stop from the lock screen or your headphones. The map shows the way to the next stop.
17 WALKS
Sultanahmet: the Hippodrome, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the Basilica Cistern. This one is free, no account needed.
Inside Topkapı Palace
The Grand Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar
Süleymaniye and Sinan's hill
Galata and Beyoğlu
Balat and Fener
Kadıköy and Moda on the Asian side
Üsküdar along the water
The Bosphorus shore from Dolmabahçe to Ortaköy
Arnavutköy, Bebek and Rumeli Fortress
Eyüp and Pierre Loti
Büyükada, the largest of the Princes' Islands
Karaköy and Tophane
The seaward side of Sultanahmet, down to Kumkapı
Kuzguncuk and Beylerbeyi
Zeyrek to Edirnekapı and the land walls
Samatya and Yedikule
134 stops with stories, plus 13 optional food stops where locals eat. Every stop has a photo, and many have opening hours and ticket notes with the date we last checked them. More walks are on the way.
MADE FOR WALKING
Download a walk before you go: its stories, photos and route then work without mobile data. The street map only shows areas you have already opened, so look over the walk once while you are online. Each walk tells you its length, walking time and whether the streets are flat or hilly.
TEN LANGUAGES
Every story is recorded in English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Korean, and the app itself is in the same ten languages.
THE PASS
Sultanahmet is free. An Echo Pass opens every walk for the number of days you choose, from 1 to 60. You pay once and nothing renews.
The stories are read by an AI voice, from texts we wrote and checked against sources.
No ads and no third-party trackers. Sign in with Google only if you want your pass and progress on another phone.
Echobul is made by OWL APP LTD. Questions: contact@owl-app.com
HOW IT WORKS
Pick a walk and start it where you are. The app follows your location, buzzes as you get close and plays the story when you arrive. Pause, go back or skip a stop from the lock screen or your headphones. The map shows the way to the next stop.
17 WALKS
Sultanahmet: the Hippodrome, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the Basilica Cistern. This one is free, no account needed.
Inside Topkapı Palace
The Grand Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar
Süleymaniye and Sinan's hill
Galata and Beyoğlu
Balat and Fener
Kadıköy and Moda on the Asian side
Üsküdar along the water
The Bosphorus shore from Dolmabahçe to Ortaköy
Arnavutköy, Bebek and Rumeli Fortress
Eyüp and Pierre Loti
Büyükada, the largest of the Princes' Islands
Karaköy and Tophane
The seaward side of Sultanahmet, down to Kumkapı
Kuzguncuk and Beylerbeyi
Zeyrek to Edirnekapı and the land walls
Samatya and Yedikule
134 stops with stories, plus 13 optional food stops where locals eat. Every stop has a photo, and many have opening hours and ticket notes with the date we last checked them. More walks are on the way.
MADE FOR WALKING
Download a walk before you go: its stories, photos and route then work without mobile data. The street map only shows areas you have already opened, so look over the walk once while you are online. Each walk tells you its length, walking time and whether the streets are flat or hilly.
TEN LANGUAGES
Every story is recorded in English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Korean, and the app itself is in the same ten languages.
THE PASS
Sultanahmet is free. An Echo Pass opens every walk for the number of days you choose, from 1 to 60. You pay once and nothing renews.
The stories are read by an AI voice, from texts we wrote and checked against sources.
No ads and no third-party trackers. Sign in with Google only if you want your pass and progress on another phone.
Echobul is made by OWL APP LTD. Questions: contact@owl-app.com
17 self-guided walks in Istanbul. Each stop tells its story as you arrive.
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What’s new
First release. 17 audio walks across Istanbul, each stop told in 10 languages. Sultanahmet is free and needs no account.
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About the developer
OWL APP LTD
contact@owl-app.com
71-75 Shelton Street
Covent Garden
LONDON
WC2H 9JQ
United Kingdom
+90 553 803 58 51
