Trovare for creators

Publish the walk you’d take a friend on.

Trovare publishes self-guided tours by invitation and application. If you have a route like that, and stories to tell along it, we’d like to read about it.

The people behind the tours

Guides, writers and locals, each with their name on their own routes.

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Fewer tours, better ones

Someone opening Trovare in a new city is trusting that the tour in front of them is worth the afternoon. That only holds if every tour is good, so we read and listen to every one before it ships.

It means fewer tours than an open marketplace would have. That’s the point.

Your name on it

Every tour carries your name, and you get a creator page in the app with all your routes on it.

The Dolomites: Four Classics

4 tours

The walks people come for. The Adolf Munkel Weg under the Odle, the full circuit of the Tre Cime, the viewpoint above Santa Maddalena, and the old bread road along the Viel dal Pan with the Marmolada facing you the whole way.

Created by KC&E Adventures

Tours

Adolf Munkel Weg – Val di Funes Loop 5.9mi Walk
The Tre Cime di Lavaredo Loop 4.2mi Walk
Punto Panoramico Santa Maddalena 3.2mi Walk
Final Day: the Viel dal Pan 7mi Walk

A finished app around your route

Turn-by-turn voice directions, stories that play as people arrive, and offline saving. You bring the route and the stories.

Editors on your side

Trovare’s editors read and listen to every tour before it ships, and tell you what needs work.

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Stop 3 of 8 · Café & restaurant

Rifugio Vièl dal Pan

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Rifugio Vièl dal Pan sits at 2,432 metres on the open ridge, facing directly onto the Marmolada and its glacier. The trail's name is Ladin: Viel dal Pan means the way of bread, from the flour traders out of the Belluno area who carried grain over this ridge into the Ladin valleys. The German name on the hut sign, Bindelweghütte, comes from Karl Bindel, the German mountaineer who restored the abandoned route in the early twentieth century.

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A voice if you want one

Record your own stories, or have a stop voiced in Trovare’s house voice.

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Example stop

Stop/POI 2

Card 67 Narration 244 Guide notes 0

Voice this stop Voicing… Voice it again

What the audio says. Written to be heard, and never shown in the app.

Stand on the ledge and look down. The house you walked from is exactly where it is because of where you're standing. Before a single wall went up, its builder climbed this ridge, and turned the front door to face the vie

Audio & video

steep-ridge-4f1c9a2e.mp3

0:00 / 1:390:01 / 1:390:02 / 1:390:03 / 1:390:04 / 1:390:05 / 1:39

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1.66 mi · 6 stops/POIs

Trovare Studio

Where the tours get made

The route, the stops, the words, the audio and the photos, in one place. Access comes with an accepted application.

Draw the route, or bring a GPX

Start from a list of stops and let the wizard find them on the map, draw the route yourself, or import a GPX. Studio shows the elevation profile and checks the roads along the way.

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Steep Ridge: The view the house was built for

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Exploring United KingdomEnglandConiston

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Elevation Up 23 ft, 656 ft to 692 ftUp 43 ft, 646 ft to 692 ftUp 121 ft, 646 ft to 705 ftUp 128 ft, 636 ft to 705 ftUp 200 ft, 627 ft to 705 ftUp 246 ft, 627 ft to 722 ftUp 272 ft, 627 ft to 722 ft No route yet · 0 stops/POIs0.24 mi · 1 stop/POI0.35 mi · 2 stops/POIs0.76 mi · 3 stops/POIs0.9 mi · 4 stops/POIs1.24 mi · 5 stops/POIs1.44 mi · 6 stops/POIs1.66 mi · 6 stops/POIs
Three texts for every stop

A short card people read on the map, a narration they hear as they arrive, and guide notes that Alfred, the app’s guide, uses to answer questions.

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Stop/POI 2

Card 67 Narration 244 Guide notes 0

What the app shows on screen. Short and scannable: the narration and guide notes carry the rest.

Markdown

Mile 1.6 · 1,140 ft, up 530 ft since the inn. The ledge the house was sited for: the whole valley, the lake, and Wrenmoor's chimneys straight below. The bench was put here by the family who built the inn. Stay back from the edge on the north side, where the rock is loose, and take the stile on your left for the way down to the lake.

67 words · aim for about 70

What the audio says. Written to be heard, and never shown in the app.

Stand on the ledge and look down. The house you walked from is exactly where it is because of where you're standing. Before a single wall went up, its builder climbed this ridge, and turned the front door to face the view. Follow the line of the lane from the gate to the porch. It doesn't take the easy way round the hill. It comes straight at you, so that anyone arriving by cart saw the ridge before they saw the house. The windows do the same. Count them on the south side: six, all tall, all looking up here. On the north side, where the weather comes from, there are two small ones and a lot of stone. Now look past the roof to the lake. In winter the water rises almost to the orchard wall, and the old boathouse you can just see in the trees used to stand on dry ground. The family moved it twice. They never moved the house, because the house was never about the lake. It was about this: the long view down the valley, the farms laid out like a map, the road you came in on. When you walk back down, take the stile on your left. The path drops through the beech wood and comes out at the bottom of the orchard, and for the last hundred yards you'll be walking straight at the front door, the way it was meant to be seen.

244 words · aim for 200–260 · about 1 min 39 s spoken

1.66 mi · 6 stops/POIs
Record it, or have it voiced

Upload your own recording as an MP3, or have Studio read your narration aloud with ElevenLabs. Either way, you listen to it before you publish.

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Stop/POI 2

Card 67 Narration 244 Guide notes 0
Voice this stop Voicing… Voice it again

What the audio says. Written to be heard, and never shown in the app.

Stand on the ledge and look down. The house you walked from is exactly where it is because of where you're standing. Before a single wall went up, its builder climbed this ridge, and turned the front door to face the vie

Audio & video

steep-ridge-4f1c9a2e.mp3

0:00 / 1:390:01 / 1:390:02 / 1:390:03 / 1:390:04 / 1:390:05 / 1:39

Add audio Change audio Add video

1.66 mi · 6 stops/POIs
A second reader

AI reads each narration against Trovare’s guide and points out where it drifts. It never rewrites your words.
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Stop/POI 2

Stand on the ledge and look down. The house you walked from is exactly where it is because of where you're standing. Before a single wall went up, its builder climbed this ridge, and turned the front door to face the view. Follow the line of the lane from the gate to the porch. It doesn't take the easy way round the hill. It comes straight at you, so that anyone arriving by cart saw the ridge before they saw the house. The windows do the same. Count them on the south side: six, all tall, all looking up here. On the north side, where the weather comes from, there are two small ones and a lot of stone. Now look past the roof to the lake. In winter the water rises almost to the orchard wall, and the old boathouse you can just see in the trees used to stand on dry ground. The family moved it twice. They never moved the house, because the house was never about the lake. It was about this: the long view down the valley, the farms laid out like a map, the road you came in on. When you walk back down, take the stile on your left. The path drops through the beech wood and comes out at the bottom of the orchard, and for the last hundred yards you'll be walking straight at the front door, the way it was meant to be seen.

244 words · aim for 200–260 · about 1 min 39 s spoken

A second reader for the guide’s writing rules: one claim, argued, not the card, nothing past the notes. Read against the guide: worth another pass.
Read it against the guide Reading… Read again

The claim: The house faces this view because the ridge came first.

Opens on the claim. The first line puts you on the ledge, and the claim follows straight after.
Argued, not listed. One idea, followed through: the house was placed for this view.
Says what the card can’t. The card has the height and the stile; this has the why.
Stays inside the guide notes. The notes don’t say who chose the site, or that they climbed the ridge first. its builder climbed this ridge
Speaks as a guide. Talks to the listener from where they stand.

1.66 mi · 6 stops/POIs
Photos with the licence sorted

Use your own photos, or pick from Wikimedia Commons with its licence rules applied and the credit kept.
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Stop/POI 2

Steep Ridge Find a photo on Commons Searching Commons… Close

A plain place name finds more than an editorial title.

3 pictures pass: a licence we can use, and named after this place (or an unnamed photo taken right at it). Check it shows this place.

CC BY-SA · named after it
Use this Adding…

CC BY · taken 42 m from the stop
Use this

CC0 · named after it
Use this

1.66 mi · 6 stops/POIs
Reviewed before it ships

An editor reads every tour end to end and listens to every clip before it goes into the app.
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Checks · Ready for review Checks · Ready to publish

Route
Stop text
Audio
Images
Listened end to end — 1 clip not listened to yet Steep Ridge Listened end to end
Tour details

Live in the app — Happens after an editor publishes it in Studio

Publish tour
Publishing opens once you’ve listened to every clip.

1.66 mi · 6 stops/POIs

The standard

What a good tour looks like

The short version of the guide every tour is written to.

A title that makes a claim. The place, then the point: “Lecce: The city built from one stone.”

Tour title

Lecce: The city built from one stone.

Lecce Walking Tour

Names the place, says nothing about it.

What happens after you apply

Stage 01

Apply

Tell us who you are, the places you know, and the kind of tours you’d make.
Stage 02

We read it

A person on the Trovare team reads every application and replies within five business days.
Stage 03

Get set up in Studio

If it’s a fit, we give you access to Studio. You sign in with a free Trovare app account.
Stage 04

Build, review, publish

You build the tour, we review it, and it goes live in the app.

Questions

No. Some creators guide for a living; others just know a place better than anyone. What matters is the route and what you have to say along it.

A route you’d take a friend on, and something worth saying at each stop. Your own photos and recordings help, but Studio can voice a stop and find licensed photos if you don’t have them.

Then Trovare for partners is the better place to start. We build collections of tours for hotels, clubs and destinations, with your name on them.

Apply to publish on Trovare

Tell us who you are and the places you know. We reply within five business days.

Apply

Publish the walk you’d take a friend on.

Fewer tours, better ones

Your name on it

A finished app around your route

Editors on your side

A voice if you want one

Where the tours get made

Draw the route, or bring a GPX

Three texts for every stop

Record it, or have it voiced

A second reader

Photos with the licence sorted

Reviewed before it ships

What a good tour looks like

What happens after you apply

Apply

We read it

Get set up in Studio

Build, review, publish

Questions

Do I need to be a professional guide?

What do I need to start?

I represent a hotel, a club or a destination.

Apply to publish on Trovare