Comparison
Roots Earth and TouringBee: the facts
Roots Earth is an app with audio stories about 5,665 places in 130 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people. TouringBee is an app for iOS and Android which describes itself as "your personal audio travel guide that brings cities to life through stories told by locals." The table puts the facts of both side by side; every TouringBee fact on this page comes from TouringBee's own pages, read on 15 September 2026, and is listed under Sources.
Published 15 September 2026. Markdown: touringbee.md
How do Roots Earth and TouringBee compare?
| Fact | Roots Earth | TouringBee |
|---|---|---|
| What it covers | 130 cities in 25 countries across six regions | Cities across the globe, Paris, Amsterdam and Barcelona named (App Store description) |
| Cities and places, where published | 130 cities and 5,665 places | No count published |
| Languages | 7 languages: English and German in all 130 cities; Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 | The site switcher lists 7 languages; the App Store Languages field lists English only |
| Account needed | No account | Not stated on their 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 | Audio "created by people who live and work in the city" |
| Platforms | Android (Google Play) | iOS and Android |
| Store links | Google Play | App Store and Google Play |
This page is about Roots Earth, and the Roots Earth home page describes the app.
Every row in full
What it covers
Roots Earth: 130 cities in 25 countries across six regions. Europe: 10 countries, 55 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.
TouringBee: The App Store description names "major cities across the globe, including Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and many more, with new destinations added regularly". No count is published. Source: 2.
Cities and places, where published
Roots Earth: 130 cities and 5,665 places, counted from the live Roots Earth catalogue on 12 September 2026.
TouringBee: No count of cities or places is published on the pages read on 15 September 2026. Sources: 1, 2, 3.
Languages
Roots Earth: Audio stories in English and German in all 130 cities, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 cities; Cannes, Marseille, Nice and Monaco have English and German only.
TouringBee: The site lists English, Русский, Español, Français, Polski, Deutsch and Italiano in its own language switcher. The App Store Languages field lists English only. Sources: 1, 2.
Account needed
TouringBee: Not stated on their site. A login option exists. Source: 1.
Plays offline
TouringBee: Yes. The Google Play description states "TouringBee works offline". Source: 3.
Who writes the content, where stated
TouringBee: TouringBee states that its audio is "created by people who live and work in the city", and describes "High-quality audio guides narrated by local experts" and "Local guides with years of real, hands-on experience". Sources: 1, 2, 3.
Store links
TouringBee: App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1415705651. Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ae.touringbee. Sources: 2, 3.
Sources
Every TouringBee fact on this page was read on 15 September 2026 from a page TouringBee publishes itself; times are UTC. Where the record of the read does not name which TouringBee page a statement is on, the row cites every TouringBee page it could be on. Roots Earth facts: its live catalogue on 12 September 2026, and Google Play.
- https://touringbee.com: TouringBee home page, read 15 September 2026 at 18:05 UTC.
- https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1415705651&country=us: TouringBee App Store listing, read 15 September 2026 at 17:59 UTC; Apple's lookup service, which returns the listing's published fields.
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ae.touringbee&hl=en&gl=US: TouringBee Google Play listing, read 15 September 2026 at 18:01 UTC.
Roots Earth in short
- No account
- Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection
- Audio stories in English and German in every city, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 of the 130 cities
Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app.