# LoreLens: China Audio Guide — Snap a landmark, hear its tale

> Snap a landmark, hear its tale (iPhone/iPad app by 景霞 苏.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lorelens-china-audio-guide/id6789418071 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [景霞 苏](https://appshunter.io/developer/1865263045)
- Category: Travel, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-07-22
- Data updated: 2026-09-27
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lorelens-china-audio-guide/id6789418071/reviews.md

## What is LoreLens?

Point your camera at a landmark - LoreLens tells you its story.

LoreLens is an AI tour guide built for exploring China's scenic wonders. Snap a photo of a landmark, and within seconds the AI identifies it and narrates a rich, engaging audio guide: the history, the legends, the poetry, and the tales behind what you're looking at.

WHY LORELENS

- INSTANT RECOGNITION: Take a photo and AI identifies the landmark, from the Great Wall to the Three Gorges. Tell the app which scenic area you're in, and it can name the individual gate, pavilion or peak standing in front of you.
- STORIES, NOT JUST FACTS: Each guide weaves history, folklore and classical poetry into a narration that feels like a knowledgeable friend by your side - with cultural context written for first-time visitors to China.
- 206 SCENIC GUIDES BUILT IN: An editorial library covering China's landmark scenic areas, with photos, practical notes, common questions and further reading. Read them, or have them read aloud - the sentence you're hearing is highlighted and the page follows along.
- LISTEN ON THE GO: Narration is synthesized entirely on your device. Keep listening with your phone locked and in your pocket.
- FIVE LANGUAGES: Interface, guides and narration in English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Follows your system language on first launch, switchable anytime.
- NEARBY DISCOVERY: See top-rated scenic areas around you, or search all 373 of China's national 5A-rated scenic areas by name, pinyin or English.
- SAVE & REPLAY: Bookmark landmarks you've visited and replay their guides anytime - offline, and in the language you saved them in.
- SHARE WHAT YOU FIND: Send any scenic guide to a friend. The link opens straight to that guide inside the app, in their own language.

PRIVACY

No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no ads. Your GPS coordinates never leave your device: the app matches them offline against a scenic-area database on the phone, and a recognition request carries only the name of the scenic area you are in. Photos are sent over HTTPS solely to be recognized. If the landmark is recognized, your photo is deleted from our servers immediately - before the guide is even written. If it is not recognized, the photo is kept for up to 7 days so we can work out why, then deleted automatically. Retained photos are never linked to any identity. Guides you save stay on your device.

Perfect for travelers to China, culture lovers, and the simply curious. Lower the camera, and hear the story.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-08-24

The guide starts talking the moment it recognizes the landmark.

- NO MORE WAITING IN SILENCE: LoreLens now speaks the landmark's name as soon as it recognizes it, then keeps narrating as the rest of the guide is written. You hear something within seconds instead of watching a progress bar.
- SAVED IS ITS OWN TAB: Bookmarked landmarks moved out of the Me tab into a tab of their own, so your saved guides and your settings stop crowding each other.
- SHARE A GUIDE: Send any scenic guide to a friend. Opening the link takes them straight to that guide inside the app, in their own language.
- ANONYMOUS USAGE DATA, OFF IN ONE TAP: A new switch in the Me tab lets us see which parts of the app actually get used - never your photos, your location or your identity. Turn it off and nothing is sent at all.

### 1.2 — 2026-08-11

Five languages, and a library of scenic guides built in.

- NEW LANGUAGES: The whole app - interface, guides and narration - now speaks English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. It follows your system language on first launch, and you can switch anytime in the Me tab.
- NEW STORIES TAB: 138 in-depth guides to China's landmark scenic areas, with photos, common questions and further reading. Have any of them read aloud - the sentence you're hearing is highlighted and the page follows along.
- SHARPER RECOGNITION: When the app knows which scenic area you are in, the AI uses that to pin down local landmarks - the gates, pavilions and steles that used to come back as "not identified".
- MORE NATURAL VOICES: The Me tab now shows which voice narrates your guides, and how to add its high-quality version from iOS Settings for free.
- Smoother language switching, and the voice card is now correctly localized in all five languages.

### 1.1 — 2026-07-31

- Guides now start within seconds: the landmark appears first and the narration streams in while it is generated
- New welcome tour with a sample photo you can try instantly - no landmark needed
- Version info in the Me tab and an updated privacy policy page
- Stability improvements

### 1.0 — 2026-07-22

No release notes.

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