Passenger Seat is a location-aware audio guide for the car. As you drive, it tells you about the history, landmarks, and towns you pass, hands free. Here is everything it can do.
The core of it. Turn it on and the road starts talking.
Turn on Live, set your phone down, and drive. Passenger Seat watches the road and reads out the history, landmarks, and towns you pass, out loud through your speakers, with nothing to tap. It pauses on its own when you park.
A long highway stretch you have driven a hundred times suddenly has a voice telling you what all those exits and old buildings actually are.
Just passed something and wondered what it was? One tap and Passenger Seat looks at where you are and what you just went by, then tells you, the moment you ask.
You crest a hill, spot a strange monument or an old mill by the river, and want to know its story before it disappears in the mirror.
Stopped, parked, or just curious? Ask for one good story about whatever is interesting close by, on demand.
You are early for a meeting in an unfamiliar town and want to know what is worth a second look on the walk from the car.
Shape what you hear and how it is told.
Choose how stories are told, from full History and Stories to Deep History, a Balanced mix, quick Practical context, or Weird and Interesting, which hunts for the surprising and offbeat. Switch it right from the Live screen.
Road trip with the kids? Set it to Weird and Interesting and let the strange roadside stuff keep everyone entertained. Driving solo? Deep History for the long version.
Passenger Seat draws on historical and cultural landmarks, monuments, museums, churches, parks and national parks, scenic viewpoints, galleries, theaters, and more, so there is something to hear well beyond the famous stops.
Off the interstate on a back road with no tourist signs, and it still finds the covered bridge, the old churchyard, and the town that used to be somewhere.
Passenger Seat remembers what it has already told you, so on the roads you drive often you keep hearing something new instead of the same few landmarks on a loop.
Your daily commute stays interesting for weeks, because the drive home tomorrow is not a rerun of the drive home today.
Set up a trip before you go, and revisit it after.
Heading somewhere? Build a narrated tour along your whole route before you leave, then press play on the way and let it guide the drive.
The night before a road trip, line up the route so the good stories are ready the moment you pull out of the driveway.
After a Live drive, get a tidy list of everything you passed, each with a link to read more and open it in Maps, so you can find that place you drove by and meant to look up.
You hear about a roadside diner or a state park mid-drive, cannot stop right then, and come back to the recap that evening to plan a proper visit.
Every story you hear is saved. Listen again any time, relive a drive, or catch the fact you only half-heard the first time.
A story stuck with you but the details are fuzzy. Open your history and there it is, ready to play back.
It works with your car, your audio, and a weak signal.
Passenger Seat works with CarPlay and plays through your car speakers like any other app. It ducks your music while a story plays and hands it back afterward, and it steps aside for navigation prompts and phone calls.
Music or your podcast keeps rolling, and a story slides in over the top only when there is something worth saying, then your audio comes right back.
Save the audio before you go so a planned trip still plays where there is no signal. Passenger Seat tells you when it cannot reach the internet and picks back up once you are online.
A national park or a long empty stretch with no bars still has a full narrated drive, because you downloaded it the night before.
Passenger Seat is free to download. Your first 100 discoveries are on us, with no daily limit.
