Philadelphia walking tours
Self-guided Philadelphia audio and AR walking tours
Philly Tours helps visitors, neighbors, families, students, and history lovers explore Philadelphia through self-guided walking routes with audio narration, map previews, Compass guidance, AR-ready stops, and neighborhood storytelling. Each route is built around real places in the city, from Black history landmarks and Quaker heritage sites to architecture, sports, libraries, transit corridors, medical history, art, campus stops, and hidden stories behind familiar blocks.
Use Philly Tours to preview routes before you go, follow stop-by-stop context while walking, listen to narration, compare route themes, and plan a day around Philadelphia stories that are easy to reach on foot or transit. The app highlights tour stops, route progress, saved discoveries, and practical planning details so each walk feels clear, grounded, and connected to the city around you.
Explore Philadelphia route collections
Start with the full Philadelphia walking tour catalog, read updates from A Founder's Story, or get help through Philly Tours support. Popular self-guided routes include Black American Legacy and Quaker Heritage, Black Inventors Tour, Black American Sports, Black Architects Tour, SEPTA Broad Street Line, and Philadelphia Foundations.
Audio, maps, Compass guidance, and AR-ready stops
Routes are designed for flexible, self-paced exploration. You can browse the story of a stop before arriving, use map and Compass cues to understand where the next landmark sits, listen to narration as you walk, and return later to continue another route. Selected stops are prepared for native AR experiences in the mobile app, giving route builders a path from research and narration into more immersive city layers.