Journey Pal is a tour guide in your pocket — a tool to discover more about your own neighbourhood and an app that lets you explore the world. With encyclopaedic information about over a million global locations, and the convenience of being a mobile app, Journey Pal is the world's most convenient tour guide.
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Hi all,
Hey everyone! I’m Dale, a software engineer and passionate traveler from New Zealand.
After exploring 30+ countries and constantly wishing for a smarter way to uncover the stories around me, I built Journey Pal — a mobile app that acts like a personal tour guide in your pocket.
🧭 What it does:
Journey Pal surfaces location-based historical facts and stories as you explore the world — no need to know what to search for, just walk around and learn what's nearby. It even works across languages, so you can read local Wikipedia pages in your own language, even if they were written in another.
🎯 Why it's different:
Most travel info is keyword-driven — if you don’t know what to look for, you miss out. Journey Pal flips that around by serving info based on your location so you never miss hidden gems again.
📱 It’s live and free on iOS and Android
🔍 I'm looking to:
• Connect with travel bloggers, content creators, and tourism marketers
• Partner with tourism orgs or guides to surface better stories and provide experiences
• Get feedback from people in the travel industry to help shape the future of the app
I've basically just been building what I wanted during my travels to deal with inconveniences I faced. In my travels I've discovered places that I think could really benefit from this software (see the reviews section on the Journey Pal website at journeypal.app).
But i've really struggled to connect with the people who manage these attractions.
Ultimately the goal is to make information more accessible for people, while also providing a fun and authentic way for people to track and share their travels.
I feel like there's a lot of potential for improvement in this space, but I'm just not sure exactly how to go about that, so I'd love any feedback of where this could be useful, or if there's any other functionality I can build in order to improve this idea.
Thanks!
Hi Dale, thanks for sharing Journey Pal with the Travel Massive community.
Congrats on what you have created and for developing a travel tool for your own needs and sharing it with other travellers!
I often take a quick look at the Wikipedia of a new city I'm visiting, so I do think there's a use-case for mapping the entries on a map and presenting it in a convenient way. The AI voice narration is also very impressive.
I found the location search a little buggy (it listed recent events events in the suggested places — for example typing 'Bangkok' mentioned the earthquake. Same for 'Tasmania').
It appears like you are building two apps in one — a "places you've been" app, and a "wikipedia on a map" app. Yes you can offer both features in the one app, but it may make it harder to pin-point your value proposition to both users and potential customers. At some point you may need to focus on one of these.
In terms of working with the industry. Tourism providers are constantly being asked to integrate with apps or digitise various services — so it's a noisy space to get heard in. You need to demonstrate that can solve a pain-point for them, and not just be a "nice to have". Ideally, have a B2B offering (e.g. a whitelabel they can brand).
I'd suggest starting local — e.g. your own tourism information centre in your hometown, and seeing if you can collaborate to build or test a product with them. Many global travel tech companies started this way!
I think you're on to something with the QR codes that you explain on your website, so perhaps that's something worth exploring...
Hope this feedback is of help!