Lorecast

Stories of the road,
told as you drive.

Lorecast is a GPS audio guide. Drive Route 66 and it narrates the places around you — ghost towns, roadside legends, the history behind what's out the window — automatically, hands-free, even offline.

Free during the Route 66 centennial pilot · no card, no catch

Lorecast playing a story about the Flamingo sculpture in Chicago
How it works

You drive. It talks. That's it.

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Plays itself

No taps, no searching. As you approach a place with a story, a narrator starts talking — with a heads-up about where to look. Runs alongside your maps app, screen off if you like.

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Every story cites its sources

Built from archives, historic registers and encyclopedias — and each story shows exactly where its facts came from. Legends are told as legends, never sold as fact.

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Works in dead zones

Download the audio for your stretch in advance. When the signal dies for an hour in Arizona, the stories keep coming.

On the road

1,700 places between Chicago and Santa Monica

Story text with cited sources
Sources, right in the app
Up next: Man with Fish, 930 m, on your left
Knows what's coming up
Map with photo pins along the route
The road ahead, with photos
Now playing screen
Two narrators: facts and folklore

I built Lorecast because audio guides kept telling me confidently wrong history. So every story here can show its receipts — and when something is a tall tale, it says so. If you're driving the Mother Road this centennial summer, ride with me and tell me what's wrong. It's free.

— Stan, developer