
Obelisk: Monument Audio Guide
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About
Point at it. Ask about it.
Photograph a monument and a voice starts telling you what it is. Ask it anything, walk away when you've heard enough. Every one it recognises is a stamp in your passport.
No typing, no searching, no tour that moves at somebody else's pace. A voice you chose is already explaining it — who built it, when, why it matters, and the part that isn't on the plaque.
HOW IT WORKS
• Point and shoot. Obelisk works out where you are on its own — you never type a location.
• It says what it is out loud, straight away.
• Talk back. Interrupt it, ask it whatever you want, walk away when you have heard enough.
• Library photos work too, so you can ask about the building you photographed last week and forgot about.
LISTEN OR READ
Listen when you can talk out loud. Read when you can't — in a museum, a church or a crowded square. In Read mode it writes to you instead, with the facts from the plaque up front, and whatever was playing on your phone keeps playing. Switch between the two with one tap.
A VOICE YOU PICKED
Choose who explains things to you — a friend, a tour guide, a professor, a storyteller — and separately, what they sound like. Choose what you care about: history, culture, architecture, or the stories and rumours that never made it into the record. Conversations can be in English or Spanish.
You answer this once. After that Obelisk never asks you anything again.
YOUR PASSPORT
Everything Obelisk recognises becomes a visit — the photo, what it was, where, when, and what was said. Visits collect into a passport organised by city, with a stamp for every city. One monument earns the stamp, five ink it black, fifteen turn it red. Open a visit three weeks later and pick the conversation back up where you left it.
Your passport reads with no connection at all, which matters on a plane and in a basement. Scans and conversations need a connection.
IT REMEMBERS WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN
Stand in front of a palace in Vienna and Obelisk can tell you the same family built the one you saw in Budapest. It reaches back to your own visits, not to a database.
SHARE A CITY
Every stamp can be shared as an image: your own photo, the red stamp on top, and how many monuments you met there. It is a picture, never a link — sharing posts nothing.
MEMBERSHIP
Three scans a day are free, forever. A trip pass or a membership lifts that limit and nothing else — it buys more of the same app, not a different one. Every voice, persona, stamp and conversation is free.
• Trip pass: 14 days of unlimited scans, one payment. It ends on its own and never renews.
• Yearly: every trip for a year. It renews until you cancel it in your Apple ID settings.
The identification and everything said after it come from a language model. A model is fluent whether or not it is right, so treat what you hear as a good guide rather than a source: dates, attributions and stories are worth checking before you repeat them, and nothing here should be relied on for opening times, safety, or whether a place is open to the public.
Obelisk is for iPhone. The app itself is in English.
Terms of Use: https://obeliskguide.app/terms
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What's New in Obelisk
1.0.1
November 13, 2026
Walking directions open in Google Maps if you have it installed. Before, a phone without Apple Maps said there was no navigation app at all.
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Unlimited scans. Three a day stays free, forever.
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