Flanra · 2026 · In internal test on Google Play
Flanra: an audio guide app recorded by real people
Self-guided city audio tours, recorded by real people. Each stop starts on its own when you arrive.
4 days
from the first document to an internal test on Google Play
CHANGELOG, 15 to 18 Oct 2026
13,794
places in the database
PLACES_IN_DB in the Flanra landing page
25 m
from a stop, the recording starts by itself
Flanra landing page
Overview
Flanra is an audio guide app for walking tours. Guides and local enthusiasts record city tours in their own voice, and you walk them at your own pace, with a map from stop to stop. I took it from the first product documents to a build on Google Play: the idea, the name and logo, every screen, the code with Claude Code, the store graphics and the landing page.
The problem
A live guide is great until you stand at the back of the group on a noisy street. Museum audio guides mean queues for rented hardware. Every place has its own app that you install for one visit. And the AI tour apps read generated text in a synthetic voice, so the personality and the local knowledge are gone. Guides have their own problem: their knowledge only earns while they are physically walking a group around.
- A listener on a walk has busy eyes, so the important things must work without looking at the screen
- User-made tours usually look amateur: crooked photos and mismatched covers
- A listener's app and a guide's tool need different pace, permissions and notifications
The solution
I took a model people already know from their phones: a tour is an album, a stop is a track, a guide is the artist. Every tour gets its own colour and line mark like a metro line, so the catalogue looks like one system even when the author is an amateur. The map stays muted, and only the tour and its stops have colour.
- Flanra for listening and Flanra Studio for guides, two products on one account
- Each stop plays on its own when you arrive, with the phone in your pocket
- Works offline, and the text follows the voice
- A person reviews every guide and listens to tours before they reach listeners
Process
Direction
Vision, PRD and market research
Android first, no payments in v1
Five screens polished before anything else
Identity
Name checked against Google Play, trademarks and domains
Narra became Flanra
Logo and two-tone type system
Build
Expo, React Native and Supabase
Moderation flow for guides
Store graphics and film from real screens
Result
Flanra is in an internal test on Google Play, with the landing page ready for launch. The first tours are set in Gdańsk, and guides can apply through Flanra Studio.
- One visual system for every tour, whoever records it
- A guide's path from application to publishing on their own after three tours
- A working demo that needs no accounts or backend