# Sonic City - London — London Music Walking Tour > London Music Walking Tour (iPhone/iPad app by Simon Kanapka.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sonic-city-london/id6762566712 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Simon Kanapka](https://appshunter.io/developer/1884148322) - Category: Music, Travel - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 49 MB - Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Released: 2026-06-02 - Data updated: 2026-06-26 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sonic-city-london/id6762566712/reviews.md ## What is Sonic City? Every street has a soundtrack. Bohemian Rhapsody was recorded behind that door. Ziggy Stardust launched from that street corner. You've walked past these places a thousand times and never known it. Sonic City turns London's streets into a music history tour. As you walk past a landmark, your phone plays the track connected to it — automatically, no tapping required. No earpiece rental. No group tour. No Wikipedia. Just you, your headphones, and streets that suddenly sound completely different. LONDON IS WHERE POPULAR MUSIC WAS BORN No city on earth has shaped popular music like London. The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. Bowie. Queen. The Clash. Amy Winehouse. The artists who wrote the soundtrack of the 20th century didn't just pass through — they lived here, recorded here, and made their greatest work on these streets. The most famous songs in history have a London postcode. Sonic City finds them. For music lovers, London is a pilgrimage. Sonic City is the map. But you don't need to be a fanatic. Just walk the city. Enjoy it. Let the soundtrack reveal itself. HOW IT WORKS Open the app. Choose a route. Start walking. When you're within about 50 metres of a landmark, Sonic City plays the connected track — and reveals a journalist-quality story about what happened here, told the way a music writer would tell it in a pub: specific, surprising, and never reverent. NEVER WALK IN SILENCE Turn it up to 11 and a hand-picked London soundtrack plays as you walk. The music keeps rolling between landmarks, then steps aside the moment you reach one — hero track, the story, and back to the soundtrack right where it left off when you move on. Prefer the quiet between stops? Switch to landmark music only. Either way, the city scores itself. WHAT YOU'LL FIND IN LONDON 300+ landmarks. Every kind of music story. Recording studios. Video shoot locations. First gigs. The bedsit where someone wrote a classic. The night a scene was born and nobody knew it yet. • The studio where Freddie Mercury and Brian May recorded Bohemian Rhapsody • The alleyway where Bowie was photographed as Ziggy Stardust • The flat where a future legend lived on nothing and wrote everything • The stage where a band played their first London show to fourteen people • The club that created Britain's first truly interracial dancefloor Each landmark includes a Look Closer prompt — a physical detail to find that proves the story is real. NOW IN SIX LANGUAGES The whole experience — every story — in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian or Dutch. PLAYS WITH APPLE MUSIC Full playback — including the walking soundtrack — uses your Apple Music subscription. Without it, you still get every story. COLLECT AS YOU GO Every landmark you visit earns a gold disc. Complete a route, fill a ring. FREE. NO ADS. NO IN-APP PURCHASES. No account, no data selling, no cross-app tracking. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.6 — 2026-06-25 Four hundred. • London's music map just broke 400 landmarks — more studios, stages, street corners and rooms where something happened that mattered. • Small fixes and polish. ### iOS App Version iOS App Version iOS App Version 1.3 — 2026-06-13 Find your hero. Press play. • New Line-up tab — every artist and landmark in your city, in one scroll. Search by name, sort by who's nearest, filter by era or genre. • Tap a card to start the track and open the story behind it. • Sharper stories, written to pull you in. • Small fixes and polish. ### iOS App Version iOS App Version 1.2 — 2026-06-13 Your music, your tour. • Turn It Up To 11 now plays your own Apple Music playlists. Pick any playlist and it fills the gaps between landmarks — it steps aside when you arrive somewhere special, then picks up right where it left off. • New London landmarks — more places, more stories, more tracks. • Small fixes and polish. ### iOS App Version 1.1 — 2026-06-05 Version 1.1 — Watch the video filmed here Some London landmarks aren't just where a song happened — they're where the music video was shot. Now, when you reach one, you can watch it standing on the exact spot. • Watch the video filmed here — The Verve on Hoxton Street, Spice Girls on the St Pancras staircase, Stormzy, Oasis, Radiohead on Eldon Street, Mansun causing chaos at Liverpool Street, and more. • New London landmarks added to the map — more places, more stories, more tracks to discover. Lace up and keep exploring. ### 1.0 — 2026-06-02 No release notes. ## More apps by Simon Kanapka - [RenoHub](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/renohub/id6760369213) All apps by Simon Kanapka: https://appshunter.io/developer/1884148322 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-26.*