Detour Blog

Detour is a platform for location-based audio experiences, available in the iOS App Store and coming to Android in June. We make our own premium outdoor tours in San Francisco, New York, and other cities. We also provide tools that let anyone create their own tours.

Apr 20, 2018

Detour: The Next Chapter

As of today, Bose is the new owner of the Detour software and tour content, while the team and I have moved to Descript. Bose is a huge fan of the Detour experience and believes it could be even better as part of the new Bose augmented reality platform. Bose is actively looking for a…

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Jun 30, 2017

Detour is free until Labor Day

With our recent expansion to 17 cities and 150 tours, it’s never been easier to try Detour. Now, we’re making it even easier: Until Labor Day, Detour is completely free!

If you haven’t tried Detour yet, audio tours probably still remind you of being…

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Jun 14, 2017

Spontaneous Immersion

One of the reasons we decided to build Detour is that it fits into the two major trends driving consumer behavior in travel: spontaneity and immersion.

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Jun 2, 2017

Free Detours this Weekend (6/2)

To celebrate our launch of 120 new tours, we’re making one tour in each of our seventeen cities free…

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May 23, 2017

Detour Everywhere: Our Biggest Release Ever

Today we are incredibly excited to share what we’ve been working on for the last 9 months: Detour Everywhere!

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May 11, 2017

Introducing Detour BYOD for Museums

For years, museums have been anticipating a future where audio tour rental devices would be replaced by visitors’ own smartphones. The rental device customer experience is clunky and conspicuous with their bulky protective cases and lanyards, and they create…

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Feb 17, 2017

New: Finish your Detour from Home

Ever run out of time before you could finish walking your Detour? Or want to listen a second time? With our new Remote Playback feature, once you’ve started a Detour, you can finish or re-listen without being on location.

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Jan 9, 2017

13 reasons your museum should switch to Detour Platform in 2017

If you’re a museum or cultural institution looking for the best way to create and distribute an audio tour, there’s never been a better time to switch to Detour Platform. Here are thirteen reasons why.

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Dec 7, 2016

Guess who’s in Apple’s 10 best apps of 2016?

We’re honored to be named by Apple one of the best 10 apps of 2016!

Here’s what Apple has to say about Detour:

What we love most about making friends in new cities is the amazing stories they share…

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Dec 5, 2016

Use Detour to make your own audio tour

This May, we launched Detour Platform with SFMOMA as our first partner. We followed that in November with our partnership with Airbnb.

Today, we’re starting to allow anyone to use the Detour Platform to make their own location-based…

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