Choose your journey
Type any subject, pick the length of your walk and decide whether to move from the present into the past—or walk towards today.
One walk · any subject
Take your curiosityfor a walk.
Black holes. Hip-hop. The Tudors. The history beneath your feet. Tell TimeWalk what you’re curious about and it turns the subject into a narrated journey that unfolds as you move.
Android early access
Audio-first
Works offline once your walk starts
Today’s curiosity
Why do cities exist?
Turn it into a 30-minute walk
Narrating in your pocket
ANY
topic can become a walk
History, science, culture, places—or your latest rabbit hole
The question you’ve been meaning to explore now fits inside the walk you were already going to take.
There is no fixed catalogue and no prescribed course. Start with a huge subject, a tiny question, a place name or a half-formed thought. TimeWalk builds a journey around what interests you.
It fits the story to your route, your available time and the amount of detail you want. Ten minutes on why leaves change colour. Half an hour through the history of English. A whole afternoon tracing the ideas that shaped democracy.
How it works
Your feet set the pace.
TimeWalk is designed for the walk you were already going to take. Set it up in a minute, then let your ears—not your screen—carry the experience.
Put your phone away
Start walking. Your movement advances the timeline while a natural voice introduces each new moment through your headphones.
Arrive somewhere else
Finish with a recap of the people, discoveries and turning points you crossed—plus the surprising span you covered on foot.
Same route. A different subject every day.
One possible weekWhy cities exist
Music from Bach to Beyoncé
The secret life of trees
How money became real
The history beneath this street
Made for moving
The best screen is the one in your pocket.
TimeWalk keeps the interface calm and the story in your ears. A glance tells you where you are; narration does the rest.
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Listen, don’t lookEvents are narrated as you reach them.
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Fit it to your attentionChoose fewer ambient moments or a deeper, more immersive story.
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Walk without a signalGenerate before you leave; the journey itself can continue offline.
Where will you go?
Bring the question. TimeWalk builds the route.
Start broad or get wonderfully specific. TimeWalk builds a fresh journey around whatever you want to understand.
Why does time only move forward?
Follow one strange question through physics, entropy, memory and the edges of what we know.
How hip-hop changed the world
Walk from a Bronx block party through the sound, technology, language and politics of a global culture.
The secret life of an oak tree
Spend one tree’s lifetime among roots, fungi, insects, weather, people and a changing landscape.
The history of right here
Enter a town, estate or postcode and discover what happened beneath the route you know by heart.
How money became real
Trace the leap from barter and coins to banks, credit cards, central banks and invisible digital value.
Where English got its words
Hear invasions, trade, technology and human invention reshaping the language one word at a time.
For places & partners
Turn a walk through a place into a journey through its past.
We’re looking for heritage, landscape and route partners to create trusted, co-branded journeys. You bring the place and its stories; TimeWalk turns them into an experience that unfolds through movement.
Let the whole estate tell its story.
Build partner-approved walks around the people, ecology and changing use of a property—with different journeys for families, enthusiasts or returning visitors.
Move beyond a single moment in time.
Let visitors hear a site being built, inhabited, contested and rediscovered as they walk—without adding another physical interpretation panel.
Give an established trail another layer.
Add optional audio journeys to long-distance paths, local loops and destination apps. The route becomes the pace-setter for the story.
Create self-guided experiences that still feel guided.
Offer branded, multilingual or themed walks that visitors can start in their own time and experience with their phone safely in a pocket.
6wk
Start with one place and two journeys.
A focused pilot lets us test visitor response, completion and repeat intent before a wider rollout.
Time is waiting
What are you curious about? Take it for a walk.
TimeWalk is currently in early access on Android. Bring the first subject you want to explore and help shape where it goes next.