AI audio storytelling ยท iOS

The street you're on has a story. Press play.

WanderCast knows exactly where you're standing. Point it at a building, a corner, or a plate of food, and it tells you the real story behind it, written fresh for your coordinates, grounded in verified local facts, and playing in your ears within seconds.

Coming soon to iOS See how it works
Coming soon to the App Store ยท Works anywhere with a GPS signal
๐ŸŽ™ Story ready in secondsStreaming audio
โœ“ Fact-checked venuesNo closed restaurants
๐Ÿงญ Stop 4 of this walkTheme: working harbors
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MAIN ST & SEAVIEW ยท CHATHAM, MA
The lighthouse the town paid for twice
Tour mode ยท 3 min 12 sec

"You're standing where the old bluff road used to end. The first light went up here in 1808. Two towers, actually, because a single beam kept getting confused with the one down at Monomoy. What the guidebooks skip is who paid for the second one โ€ฆ"

1:143:12
The gap

Travel is visually rich and contextually thin.

You can look straight at a lighthouse and have no idea why it was built, who built it, or what it cost the town. The tools we use to explore places are very good at showing you what is there, and almost useless at telling you what it means.

01

Audio tours are scripted or absent

Pre-recorded tours only work on the handful of blocks somebody bothered to script. Step off the route and the narration stops making sense.

02

Local knowledge has no front door

Every neighborhood has layers, and the people who know them are not standing on the corner waiting to tell you. There has been no way to surface those stories on demand.

03

Discovery apps hand you lists

A map can tell you a restaurant has 4.2 stars.

It cannot tell you why the fishing families on this stretch of coast have eaten the same chowder recipe since 1887.

What you can do

Every way to ask a place what happened here.

Every mode runs on the same engine: your real coordinates, verified local data, and a narrator who sounds like a knowledgeable friend rather than a museum plaque.

๐ŸŽ™ Stories

Tap once. Hear where you are.

The app reads your GPS, works out what is actually around you, pulls historical context, and generates a two to four minute narration about this exact spot. Audio streams in chunks, so playback starts within seconds instead of after the whole story is written.

  • Let it narrate wherever you're standing, or drop a pin anywhere on the map
  • Search any place by name to hear it before you go
  • Two to four minutes per story, built for headphones and a slow walk
Home ยท Hear a Story
You are here
Old Grist Mill
Fish Pier
Generating narration Wikipedia context Verified venues Local history
๐Ÿšถ Tour

An afternoon that adds up to one story.

Tour mode follows your movement, bearing, and speed. Slow down near something interesting and a new segment starts. Each one is written knowing what you already heard, so the fourth stop of the afternoon can call back to the first.

  • Stationary or strolling narrates what is immediately around you
  • Walking starts generating what's ahead, before you get there
  • Driving or cycling pauses generation rather than feeding you stories about a blur
  • The prewarm system predicts your next stop while you're still listening to this one, so there's no dead air between them
Tour ยท Wandering session
1 ยท Boat yard
2 ยท Cold storage
3 ยท Packet landing
Now
Emergent theme ยท working harbors Callback to stop 1 Next stop prewarming
๐Ÿฝ Taste the Place

Why the food here tastes like this.

Not a recommendation engine. Enter a location, or use where you're standing, and hear the agricultural history, the immigrant traditions, the fishing culture, and the crops that shaped how a region eats. Real nearby restaurants are appended afterward, pulled live so nothing on the list closed three years ago.

  • On Cape Cod: the Portuguese fishing families who settled Provincetown, how the cranberry bogs shaped the economy, and why the chowder here is not Boston's
  • Restaurant list drawn from live Google Places data, described in plain language
Taste the Place ยท Nearby, open now
๐Ÿฅฃ

The Squire

Bar side is where the shellfishermen land after a morning on the flats. Chowder is thin by Boston standards, which is the point.

โ˜… 4.4 ยท Open until 11pm ยท 0.2 mi
๐Ÿฆž

Chatham Pier Fish Market

Counter service on the working pier. You eat looking at the boat your lunch came off of.

โ˜… 4.6 ยท Open until 6pm ยท 0.7 mi
๐Ÿž

Marion's Pie Shop

Making the same clam pie since the 1950s, which around here counts as recent.

โ˜… 4.5 ยท Open until 5pm ยท 1.1 mi
๐Ÿ“ธ Snap a Story

Point the camera at it. Ask what it is.

Take a photo of anything and the app identifies the subject, then narrates its story. It works on buildings, food, signage, art, landscapes, historical markers, and famous faces. If you can see it, you can ask about it.

  • Useful for the thing you'd otherwise have to describe to a search engine badly
  • Same narration engine, so the answer sounds like a story rather than a caption
Snap a Story ยท Identified
IDENTIFIED

Chatham Light ยท 1877 tower

Cast-iron lined with brick, and the surviving half of a twin pair. Its sister tower was dismantled and carted eight miles north, where it still stands under a different name.

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What's Around

Nearby Wikipedia articles and curated local points of interest on a map. Tap any pin to hear its story, or generate a full walking tour built around what you're actually interested in.

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Find a Bite

Describe what you're after, whether that's something spicy, a local fish place, or good brunch, and get real restaurants with descriptions worth reading. Save the ones you like.

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Find a Shop

The same thing for retail. Boutiques, galleries, bookstores, antiques, artisan food, home and decor, each with a short read on the atmosphere before you walk in.

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Things To Do

Search activities and events in any area, filtered by category and written up properly rather than pasted from a listings page.

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Library

Every bookmarked story, saved restaurant, and saved shop in one place. Stories replay in full whenever you want them.

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Trips

Each walk is saved as a wandering session: a map of everywhere you stopped, every story you heard, and the themes that emerged across the afternoon.

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Bookmarks

Keep any narration to replay or read later. Useful for the one fact you'll want to repeat at dinner.

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Your settings

Set your narration style and the topics you care about, or switch to text-only mode when you'd rather read than listen.

Under the hood

Written in real time. Checked before it's written.

Most AI travel content is a language model guessing about a place. WanderCast does the research first and only then lets the writer start, which is why it can name the restaurant on the corner and be right about it.

01

Grounding pass

Before a single word is written, the backend pulls currently operating venues from Google Places and searches the web for verified historical facts about your exact coordinates.

02

Research and classify

A fast model pass sorts through what came back and classifies the topic, deciding what this particular spot is actually about.

03

Write the narration

Claude Sonnet writes the story from the grounded facts it was handed, plus the last five stops of your session so it never repeats itself and can pick up an earlier thread.

04

Stream the audio

As the text streams out it's piped through text to speech in chunks. Your phone starts playing the opening line while the ending is still being written.

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Why the grounding pass matters: it is the difference between an app that confidently sends you to a restaurant that closed three years ago and one that doesn't. The venue data handed to Claude covers operating places only, and the historical detail is retrieved rather than recalled.

Why it's different

Five things no scripted tour can do.

Specific, never templated

Every story is generated for the exact coordinates you're standing on, and session deduplication means the same story is never told to you twice on a walk.

Grounded in verified facts

Live venue data prevents hallucinated recommendations, and real historical sources are injected before the writing starts. The model works from research, not from memory.

One continuous narrative

The wandering session gives an afternoon a shape. Themes develop, earlier stops get called back, and by the end you've heard something closer to an essay than a set of disconnected facts.

Audio first, latency last

These are stories meant to be heard while walking. The streaming pipeline starts playback before generation finishes, so there's no waiting on a spinner while you stand on a corner.

It works off the landmark trail

You don't need to be at a monument. Stand on an ordinary street corner anywhere in the world and the app will find something about it worth telling you.

Pricing

Buy stories, not a subscription.

Start with a set of free stories. When you run out, buy a pack. There's no monthly charge and nothing to cancel.

Free to start

$0
A set of free stories to start
  • A set of free story generations, no trial clock running
  • Stories, Tour, Taste the Place, What's Around, and Snap a Story
  • Library, bookmarks, and saved trips included
  • Buy a story pack only if and when you run out
Download the app
Story pack

25 stories

One-time purchase
Bought in the app. Not a subscription.
  • 25 generated stories per pack, used whenever you like
  • Credits are tracked on the server, not on your device, so a reinstall doesn't lose them
  • Buy another pack whenever you travel again. Nothing recurring
  • Gift and promo codes redeem straight into your balance
Get started free

Purchases run through the App Store. Have a code that looks like WANDER-XXXX-XXXX? Redeem it in the app.

Plainly

What WanderCast isn't.

It's a better use of your time to know this now than to find out on a trip.

โœ• Not a navigation app

There's no turn-by-turn and no routing. WanderCast tells you about where you are. Getting you there is still your maps app's job.

โœ• Not a traditional audio tour

Nothing is pre-scripted. There's no fixed route to follow and no recorded voice actor working through a numbered list of stops.

โœ• Not a social app

No feed, no sharing, no comments, no followers. It's you, a place, and a voice in your ear.

โœ• Not equally rich everywhere

Story quality depends on the data available. Dense historic cities are the best case. Rural areas work, but stories there will be shorter and less specific.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Does it only work in certain cities?
No. WanderCast works anywhere with a GPS signal. It isn't tied to a property, a route, or a list of supported destinations. That said, the richness varies with what's on record about a place: a dense historic city gives the app far more to work with than an empty stretch of road, so rural stories tend to be shorter and less specific.
How long is a story, and how long do I wait for it?
Stories run roughly two to four minutes. You don't wait for the whole thing to be written, because audio streams in chunks as it's generated, so playback usually begins within a few seconds of tapping.
Is any of this made up?
The narration is written by Claude, but it isn't written from memory. Before generation begins, the backend pulls currently operating venues from Google Places and searches for verified historical facts about your coordinates, then hands that material to the model. That grounding pass is specifically what stops the app from recommending a restaurant that closed three years ago.
Will it start repeating itself on a long walk?
Every story is generated fresh for your exact coordinates, and within a wandering session the deduplication system means the same story isn't told twice. Each new narration is written with the last five stops in view, so it avoids retreading ground and can pick up a thread from earlier in the afternoon.
What counts as one story credit?
One generated narration. You start with a set of free stories, and after that you buy packs of 25 as a one-time in-app purchase rather than a subscription. Credits are tracked on the server rather than on the device, so a reinstall doesn't lose them.
What happens to the walks I've taken?
Each walk is saved as a wandering session with a map of every place you stopped, the stories you heard, and the themes the app identified across the afternoon. Sessions close automatically after 90 minutes of inactivity, or if you travel more than five kilometres from where you started. Anything you bookmarked stays in your Library. All of it is stored on your own device rather than on our servers, so you can delete it whenever you like.
Can I use it without headphones in?
Yes. There's a text-only mode in settings if you'd rather read the narration than hear it, along with controls for narration style and the topics you want stories to lean toward.
What about cemeteries, memorials, and other sensitive places?
The narration voice shifts. Sensitive sites get quieter, more reverent treatment rather than the same conversational register used for a boat yard or a bakery.
What do you do with my location and my photos?
Your location is used to generate the story you asked for and is not stored on our servers afterward. Photos from Snap a Story are held in memory only long enough to identify what you photographed, then discarded, and are never stored. Your saved stories, bookmarks, and trip history live on your phone rather than on our servers. There are no accounts, no analytics tools, and no advertising. The privacy policy covers all of it in detail.
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Privacy Policy

Last updated July 28, 2026

This Privacy Notice for Benjamin Nevas (doing business as WanderCast) describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and share ("process") your personal information when you download and use our mobile application, or engage with us in any related way.

Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you have any questions, contact us at support@wandercast.ai.

The short version. WanderCast is built to collect as little as possible. Your saved stories, bookmarks, saved places, wandering sessions, and trip history are stored on your phone and are never sent to our servers. There are no user accounts, and we never ask for your name, email address, or phone number in order to use the app. We do not use analytics or advertising tools, we do not track you across other apps or websites, and we do not sell or share your information.

Photos you take with Snap a Story are sent to our AI provider to identify what you photographed, and are then discarded. They are never stored. Because a photo may capture people nearby, please be considerate of others when using the camera.

Contents

  1. What information do we collect?
  2. How do we process your information?
  3. When and with whom do we share your information?
  4. Do we use cookies and tracking technologies?
  5. Do we offer AI-based products?
  6. How long do we keep your information?
  7. How do we keep your information safe?
  8. Do we collect information from minors?
  9. What are your privacy rights?
  10. Controls for Do-Not-Track features
  11. Do United States residents have specific privacy rights?
  12. What stays on your device
  13. Do we make updates to this notice?
  14. How can you contact us?
  15. How can you review, update, or delete your data?

1. What information do we collect?

Personal information you disclose to us

In short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you use features of the Services or when you contact us. Depending on how you use WanderCast, this may include:

  • Email addresses and names, when you write to us for support
  • Photos and camera images you submit (Snap a Story)
  • Search queries and free-text descriptions you enter (Find a Bite, Find a Shop, Things To Do, location search)
  • App preferences and settings (narration style, topic preferences, text-only mode)
  • Saved and bookmarked content (Library, saved spots and shops), which is stored on your device
  • Redemption codes you enter

Sensitive information

With your consent, or as otherwise permitted by applicable law, we process one category of sensitive information: precise location. We use it solely to generate the location-relevant content you request. We do not use it to infer characteristics about you.

Payment data

All purchases are processed by Apple through in-app purchase. We do not collect, receive, or store payment card numbers, billing addresses, or other payment credentials. RevenueCat validates purchases and manages entitlements on our behalf, providing us with a transaction identifier and an app user ID that we use to add story credits to your balance. Refunds are issued by Apple under its own policies, not by us. You can review their privacy notices at apple.com/legal/privacy and revenuecat.com/privacy.

Application data

If you use our application, we may collect the following if you grant us access or permission:

  • Geolocation information. We request permission to access your device's precise location while you are using the app, in order to narrate the places around you. We do not collect location in the background. You can change or revoke this permission at any time in your device settings.
  • Mobile device access. We request access to your device's camera (for Snap a Story) and motion sensors (for compass heading and movement). We do not request access to your photo library, microphone, contacts, calendar, or Bluetooth.

Information automatically collected

In short: Some technical information is collected automatically when you use the Services.

We automatically collect certain information when you use the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity, and includes:

  • Log and usage data. Our servers record the requested path, the request method, and the response status. Logs do not include your IP address or the contents of your requests.
  • Device data. Information about the device you use to access the Services, such as operating system version, app version, and application identifiers.
  • Location data. Precise device location, collected from GPS while you are actively using the app, together with compass heading and movement speed. You can opt out by declining or revoking the location permission on your device, though certain features will not work without it.
  • Session and journey data. Themes identified across a wandering session, journey summaries, and the sequence of stops on a walk. This is stored on your device.
  • Movement and motion data. Compass heading, speed, the derived movement classification (stationary, walking, or traveling by vehicle), and the predicted next location used to pre-generate content.

2. How do we process your information?

In short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, respond to you, protect against fraud, and comply with law.
  • To generate the location-based stories, recommendations, and audio narration you request.
  • To maintain continuity within a wandering session and avoid repeating content you have already heard.
  • To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to you.
  • To fulfill and manage your orders, including story pack purchases and credit balances.
  • To respond to your inquiries and offer support.
  • To protect our Services, including fraud monitoring and prevention.
  • To evaluate and improve our Services and identify usage trends.
  • To comply with our legal obligations.

3. When and with whom do we share your personal information?

In short: We share information with the service providers listed below. We do not sell or share your personal information.

We may share your data with third-party vendors and service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to that information to do that work. We have contracts in place with these third parties designed to safeguard your personal information, meaning they cannot use it for their own purposes.

The service providers we share personal information with are:

  • AI service providers. Anthropic (narration and image understanding) and OpenAI (text to speech). Anthropic receives coordinates, a place name, recent session context, and, for Snap a Story, the photo you took. OpenAI receives only the narration text to be converted to speech. Neither receives a user or device identifier, and neither uses your content to train their models.
  • Cloud computing and hosting. Replit, which hosts our backend and database and routes our text-to-speech requests.
  • Location and reference data. Google (Places API), Wikimedia (Wikipedia), and OpenStreetMap (Nominatim and Overpass). These receive coordinates and search terms with no user or device identifier attached. Some Wikipedia requests are made directly from your device, which means Wikimedia may see your device's IP address.
  • Purchases and billing. RevenueCat, together with Apple (App Store in-app purchase).
  • App infrastructure. Expo, for over-the-air app updates.
  • Website hosting. Netlify, which hosts this website.
  • Testing. Apple TestFlight, for pre-release builds.

We may also need to share your personal information in the following situations:

  • Business transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • When we use Google Maps Platform APIs. We use certain Google Maps Platform APIs (including the Places API) to retrieve information when you make location-specific requests. This includes precise device location (latitude and longitude), compass heading and direction of travel, movement speed, derived movement state, the reverse-geocoded place name for your coordinates, locations you search for or pin manually, and points of interest you view or select. We do not store your location on our servers. Coordinates for the stops on a walk are stored on your own device and remain there until you delete the trip or uninstall the app. You may revoke your consent at any time in your device settings or by contacting us.

4. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?

In short: No.

The WanderCast mobile app does not use cookies, web beacons, or pixels. This website does not set cookies or use tracking scripts. We do not permit third parties to use tracking technologies on our Services for analytics or advertising, and we do not display advertising of any kind.

5. Do we offer artificial intelligence-based products?

In short: Yes. Generating stories with AI is the core of what WanderCast does.

We provide our AI features through third-party AI service providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Replit (which routes our text-to-speech requests). Your input and the resulting output are shared with and processed by these providers to enable the features you use. You must not use the AI features in any way that violates the terms or policies of any of these providers.

What our AI features do

  • Content and text generation
  • Image analysis and computer vision
  • Audio and voice generation
  • Search
  • Recommendations
  • Natural language processing

How your data is handled

Content sent to our AI providers is used to fulfill your request and is not used to train their models. Providers may retain inputs and outputs briefly for abuse monitoring before deleting them. Photos sent for identification are not used for facial recognition and are not used to identify individuals.

How to opt out

AI processing is intrinsic to the service, so opting out means choosing not to use the features. You control this by declining or revoking camera permission in your device settings, which disables Snap a Story, and by declining or revoking location permission, which disables location-based narration. Text-only mode in the Configure screen avoids the text-to-speech pipeline entirely. You can contact support to request deletion of any stored content.

6. How long do we keep your information?

In short: We keep as little as possible, and most of what WanderCast creates never reaches our servers at all.

Photos you take with Snap a Story are not stored. They are held in memory only long enough to generate your story, then discarded. Generated audio is cached on our servers for up to 10 minutes so playback is smooth, and is then deleted.

Your stories, bookmarks, saved places, wandering sessions, and trip history are stored on your device, not on our servers. You can delete them at any time in the app, and uninstalling WanderCast removes them entirely.

Your location is used to generate the story you asked for and is not stored on our servers afterward.

We keep a record of your story credit balance and your purchase and usage history for as long as you use WanderCast, so that credits you have paid for survive reinstalling the app. This record is tied to an anonymous identifier, not to your name or email address. You can ask us to delete it by contacting support@wandercast.ai.

Server logs record the requested path and response status. They do not include your IP address or the contents of your requests, and are automatically deleted after 7 days.

7. How do we keep your information safe?

In short: We aim to protect your personal information through appropriate organizational and technical measures.

Information is transmitted over encrypted connections. Payment details are handled entirely by Apple and never reach our servers. Photos are processed in memory and never stored. We deliberately collect and retain as little as possible, which is itself a meaningful protection.

However, despite our safeguards, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.

8. Do we collect information from minors?

In short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 18 years of age, nor do we knowingly sell such personal information. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18, or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to that minor's use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under 18, please contact us at support@wandercast.ai.

9. What are your privacy rights?

In short: You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your information at any time.

Withdrawing your consent. If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, either by changing the relevant permission in your device settings or by contacting us. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before its withdrawal.

Because WanderCast has no accounts, the only identifier attached to information on our servers is an anonymous app identifier. If you would like us to act on a request, contact support@wandercast.ai and we will help you locate it.

10. Controls for Do-Not-Track features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature you can activate to signal your preference not to have your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized, so we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals. California law requires us to disclose this. If a standard is adopted that we must follow, we will inform you in a revised version of this notice.

11. Do United States residents have specific privacy rights?

In short: Depending on your state, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of your personal information.

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you and how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law.

Categories of personal information we collect

CategoryExamplesCollected
A. IdentifiersContact details, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, email addressYes
B. Personal information under the California Customer Records statuteName, contact information, education, employment, financial informationNo
C. Protected classification characteristicsGender, age, date of birth, race and ethnicity, national origin, marital statusNo
D. Commercial informationTransaction information, purchase history, payment informationYes
E. Biometric informationFingerprints and voiceprintsNo
F. Internet or other similar network activityBrowsing history, search history, interactions with our applicationYes
G. Geolocation dataDevice locationYes
H. Audio, electronic, sensory, or similar informationImages and audio created in connection with our business activitiesYes
I. Professional or employment-related informationJob title, work history, professional qualificationsNo
J. Education informationStudent records and directory informationNo
K. Inferences drawn from collected personal informationInferences used to create a profile about an individual's preferences and characteristicsNo
L. Sensitive personal informationPrecise geolocationYes

We only collect sensitive personal information as permitted by law or with your consent. We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.

We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories when you interact with us in the context of receiving help through our support channels, or in the delivery of our Services and responses to your inquiries.

How long we retain each category

  • Category A (Identifiers). Your anonymous app identifier and credit records are kept for as long as you use WanderCast, so that credits you have purchased remain available if you reinstall the app. You can request deletion at any time by contacting support. IP addresses are not stored by the app and are used only momentarily to limit request rates. Email addresses you send us for support are kept only as long as needed to resolve your question.
  • Category D (Commercial information). For as long as you use WanderCast, so that credits you have purchased remain available to you. You can request deletion at any time.
  • Category F (Internet activity). We do not track browsing activity, we do not use cookies or tracking pixels, and we do not monitor activity across other websites or apps. Within WanderCast we record which features were used in order to manage story credits, and recent stops from your current walk are sent to our AI provider so that stories connect to one another rather than repeating. Your search history and trip history are stored on your device, not on our servers.
  • Category G (Geolocation) and Category L (Sensitive). We do not store your location on our servers. Coordinates are used to generate the story you requested and are discarded when the request completes. Coordinates for the stops on a walk are stored on your own device as part of your trip history, and remain there until you delete the trip or uninstall the app.
  • Category H (Sensory). Photos are not stored. They are held in memory only long enough to generate your story, and are then discarded. We do not record audio.

How we use and share personal information

We may disclose your personal information to our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider, as described in section 3 above.

We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as internal research for technological development. This is not considered "selling" of your personal information.

We have not sold or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months. We have disclosed the following categories of personal information to service providers for a business purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months: Category A (Identifiers), Category D (Commercial information), Category F (Internet activity), Category G (Geolocation data), Category H (Audio, electronic, visual and similar information), and Category L (Sensitive personal information).

Your rights

You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. These rights are not absolute, and in certain cases we may decline your request as permitted by law. They include:

  • Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data
  • Right to access your personal data
  • Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
  • Right to request the deletion of your personal data
  • Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
  • Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
  • Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. We do none of these things.
  • Right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (California)

Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to access the categories of personal data being processed, to obtain a list of the categories of third parties or the specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal data, and to review, understand, question, and correct how personal data has been profiled.

How to exercise your rights

To exercise these rights, email us at support@wandercast.ai. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof of valid authorization.

Request verification

Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine that you are the same person about whom we have information in our system. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity. Because WanderCast has no accounts, we may need to ask you for the anonymous app identifier associated with your device, and we will explain how to find it.

Appeals

Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal by emailing support@wandercast.ai. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.

California "Shine The Light" law

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes, and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please contact us using the details in section 14.

12. What stays on your device

WanderCast is built to collect as little as possible. Your saved stories, bookmarks, saved places, wandering sessions, and trip history are stored on your phone and are never sent to our servers. There are no user accounts, and we never ask for your name, email address, or phone number in order to use the app. We do not use analytics or advertising tools, we do not track you across other apps or websites, and we do not sell or share your information.

Photos you take with Snap a Story are sent to our AI provider to identify what you photographed, and are then discarded. They are never stored. Because a photo may capture people nearby, please be considerate of others when using the camera.

13. Do we make updates to this notice?

In short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated date at the top of this notice. If we make material changes, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this notice periodically.

14. How can you contact us about this notice?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, email us at support@wandercast.ai.

The Services are operated by Benjamin Nevas, doing business as WanderCast, in the United States.

15. How can you review, update, or delete the data we collect from you?

You have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, to correct inaccuracies, or to delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, email support@wandercast.ai.

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Terms of Use

Last updated July 28, 2026

These Terms of Use govern your use of the WanderCast mobile application and this website (together, the "Services"), operated by Benjamin Nevas doing business as WanderCast ("we", "us", "our"). By downloading, installing, or using WanderCast, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Services.

Contents

  1. Who can use WanderCast
  2. Your licence to use the app
  3. Story credits and purchases
  4. Redemption codes
  5. AI-generated content
  6. Acceptable use
  7. Third-party services and content
  8. Google Maps Platform
  9. Our intellectual property
  10. Privacy
  11. Disclaimers
  12. Limitation of liability
  13. Termination
  14. Changes to these terms
  15. Governing law
  16. Contact

1. Who can use WanderCast

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Services. By using WanderCast you represent that you are 18 or older, or that you are the parent or guardian of a minor and consent to that minor's use of the Services under your supervision.

WanderCast is currently offered only in the United States.

2. Your licence to use the app

Subject to these terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to download and use WanderCast on a device you own or control, for your own non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

Your use of the app is also subject to the terms of the app store you downloaded it from. Where those terms conflict with these, the app store's terms govern the download and installation of the app itself.

3. Story credits and purchases

WanderCast includes a set of free story generations. After those are used, additional stories require story credits, sold as packs through in-app purchase.

  • All purchases are processed by Apple. We never receive or store your payment card details.
  • Story credits are a limited licence to generate content within the app. They have no cash value, are not transferable, cannot be exchanged for money, and cannot be combined across accounts or devices.
  • Credits do not expire, but we cannot guarantee the Services will remain available indefinitely. See section 13.
  • Refunds are handled by Apple under its own policies, not by us. If you want a refund for an in-app purchase, request it through the App Store. We are not able to issue refunds directly.
  • Credits are tied to an anonymous app identifier managed by your device and our payments provider. If that identifier changes, for example on some reinstalls or when moving to a new device, your balance may not carry over. Contact us and we will do what we reasonably can to help.

4. Redemption codes

We may issue promotional codes that grant story credits. Codes are valid only for the stated number of redemptions and until any stated expiry, have no cash value, and may not be sold, transferred, or published. We may void codes that we reasonably believe have been obtained or used improperly.

5. AI-generated content

This section matters, so please read it.

WanderCast narrations, descriptions, and recommendations are generated by artificial intelligence in real time. Before generating a story we retrieve supporting material from sources including Google Places, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, and web search, and the model writes from that material rather than from memory. This grounding step meaningfully improves accuracy, but it does not make the output guaranteed correct.

  • Narration may contain errors, omissions, or outdated information, and historical claims should not be relied on as authoritative. Verify anything that matters to you.
  • Venue information, opening hours, and other details come from third-party data that may be incomplete or out of date.
  • Recommendations are generated automatically and are not endorsements. We have no commercial relationship with the businesses that appear in results unless we say so explicitly.
  • Nothing in the Services is professional advice of any kind, including legal, medical, financial, or safety advice.
  • Pay attention to your surroundings. WanderCast is designed to be used while walking and listening. You are responsible for your own safety, for obeying traffic and trespass laws, and for respecting private property, restricted areas, and places of remembrance. Do not use the app while driving.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • Use the Services for any unlawful purpose, or in violation of the terms or policies of any third-party provider we rely on
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, interfere with the Services, or circumvent the credit system or any usage limits
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the app, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by law
  • Use automated means to access, scrape, or generate content through the Services
  • Photograph people in a way that harasses, endangers, or invades the privacy of others, or submit content you have no right to submit
  • Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Services or the content they generate without our written permission

7. Third-party services and content

WanderCast depends on third-party services to function, including artificial intelligence providers, mapping and location data providers, hosting providers, and the app stores. Content retrieved from those services is provided by them, not by us, and we do not control or guarantee its accuracy.

Your use of those services through WanderCast may also be governed by the third party's own terms. Section 8 sets out one such requirement in full.

8. Google Maps Platform

WanderCast includes Google Maps features and content.

By using WanderCast, you are bound by Google's Terms of Service. Your use of Google Maps features and content within the Services is subject to the then-current versions of the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service, which incorporate the Google Terms of Service, and the Google Privacy Policy.

We use Google Maps Platform APIs, including the Places API, to retrieve information about places near the coordinates you request. Details of what information is involved, and how we handle it, are set out in our Privacy Policy.

9. Our intellectual property

The WanderCast name, logo, app design, and underlying software are owned by us and protected by intellectual property law. These terms do not transfer any ownership to you.

Stories generated for you are yours to keep, save, and share for your own personal, non-commercial use. We make no claim of ownership over photos you take. Because narrations are produced by an AI model from third-party source material, we make no representation that generated content is protectable or exclusive to you, and identical or similar content may be generated for other users.

10. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and how long we keep it. In short: your saved stories, bookmarks, and trip history stay on your device, photos are never stored, and your location is not retained on our servers. Please read the full policy, which forms part of your agreement with us.

11. Disclaimers

The Services are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty regarding the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of generated content.

We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, that stories will be available in any particular location, or that defects will be corrected. Story quality depends on the data available for a place, and coverage varies.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to your use of the Services, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for all claims relating to the Services will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us for story credits in the twelve months before the claim arose, or twenty-five US dollars.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some of the above may not apply to you.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Services at any time by uninstalling the app. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms, or if we discontinue the Services.

If we discontinue the Services entirely, we will make a reasonable effort to give notice in advance through the app or this website. Unused story credits are not refundable by us, though you may be able to seek a refund from Apple under its policies.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by a revised date at the top of this page. If we make material changes, we will make a reasonable effort to notify you through the app or this website. Continuing to use the Services after changes take effect means you accept the revised terms.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Massachusetts, and you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to support@wandercast.ai.

The Services are operated by Benjamin Nevas, doing business as WanderCast, in the United States.