Comparison
Roots Earth and AudaTours: the facts
Roots Earth: Audio stories for 5,665 places in 133 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions. The stories are written by local people. AudaTours is an app for iOS and Android; its site says "Walk the city. Hear its stories." and counts 2299 cities in "50+ languages". The table puts the facts of both side by side; every AudaTours fact on this page comes from AudaTours' own pages, read on 16 September 2026, and is listed under Sources.
Published 15 September 2026. Markdown: audatours.md
How do Roots Earth and AudaTours compare?
| Fact | Roots Earth | AudaTours |
|---|---|---|
| What it covers | 133 cities in 25 countries across 6 regions | 141 countries, counted per continent (site) |
| Cities and places, where published | 133 cities and 5,665 places | 3226 titles in 2299 cities and 141 countries (site) |
| Languages | Every place in all 133 cities has its audio story, a short introduction and a longer story, in all seven languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Albanian. | "50+ languages" (site); the App Store Languages field lists 37 entries |
| Account needed | No account | No (site) |
| Plays offline | Yes, once a city's audio is downloaded | Yes (Google Play description) |
| Who writes the content, where stated | Local people write the stories | Not stated on their site |
| Platforms | iOS (App Store) and Android (Google Play) | iOS and Android |
| Store links | App Store and Google Play | App Store and Google Play |
This page is about Roots Earth, and the Roots Earth app page describes the app.
Every row in full
What it covers
Roots Earth: Audio stories for 5,665 places in 133 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions. Europe: 10 countries, 58 cities and 2,313 places. North America: 2 countries, 10 cities and 467 places. Latin America: 4 countries, 20 cities and 892 places. Africa: 3 countries, 15 cities and 650 places. Asia: 3 countries, 15 cities and 705 places. Oceania: 3 countries, 15 cities and 638 places.
AudaTours: The site counts 141 countries and gives, per continent: Europe, 1902 titles in 43 countries; Asia, 119 titles in 34 countries; North America, 754 titles in 16 countries; South America, 42 titles in 12 countries; Africa, 24 titles in 17 countries; Oceania, 54 titles in 4 countries. Source: 1.
Cities and places, where published
Roots Earth: 133 cities and 5,665 places. The counts come from the Roots Earth catalogue snapshot read on 31 October 2026 (2026-10-31T08:21:20.121Z).
AudaTours: The site counts 3226 titles, 2299 cities, 50+ languages and 141 countries. Source: 1.
Languages
Roots Earth: Every place in all 133 cities has its audio story, a short introduction and a longer story, in all seven languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Albanian. Each language covers all 5,665 places.
AudaTours: The site states "50+ languages" and the App Store description states "over 50 languages". The App Store Languages field lists 37 entries, including Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Sources: 1, 2.
Account needed
AudaTours: No. The site states that a traveller can start in 60 seconds, with "no account, no card". Source: 1.
Plays offline
AudaTours: Yes. The Google Play description states "With offline access, you can download" and explore "without worrying about connectivity". Source: 3.
Who writes the content, where stated
AudaTours: Not stated on their site. The countries block on the site says "Here's the ones our guides know best". Source: 1.
Store links
AudaTours: App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6475402833. Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.alltours. Sources: 2, 3.
Sources
Every AudaTours fact on this page was read on 16 September 2026 from a page AudaTours publishes itself; times are UTC. Where a page counts its own audio items, this page gives the number and calls them titles. Roots Earth catalogue facts: The counts come from the Roots Earth catalogue snapshot read on 31 October 2026 (2026-10-31T08:21:20.121Z). Store facts retain their cited read dates.
- https://audatours.com: AudaTours home page, read 16 September 2026 at 07:05 UTC; read with a plain HTTPS request carrying a desktop browser user agent.
- https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6475402833&country=us: AudaTours App Store listing, read 16 September 2026 at 07:05 UTC; Apple's lookup service, which returns the listing's published fields.
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.alltours&hl=en&gl=US: AudaTours Google Play listing, read 16 September 2026 at 07:05 UTC.
- https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6772810517: Roots Earth App Store listing, read 24 September 2026 at 08:39 UTC; Apple's lookup service, which returns the listing's published fields.
Roots Earth in short
- No account
- Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection
- Every place in all 133 cities has its audio story, a short introduction and a longer story, in all seven languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Albanian.
Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app. Roots Earth for iOS is available on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6772810517.