About Edinburgh ByFoot

I'm Lewis. I've lived in Edinburgh for eight years, and I make the self-guided walking tours in this app. Every tour starts the same way: I research it, write the script, record the audio, then walk the route to check the directions make sense on the ground. If a stop doesn't work in the rain or a junction is confusing, I change it. Nothing here is scraped, and nothing is read by a machine.

What you get. Six audio walking tours of Edinburgh, covering the Royal Mile, the Old Town, the New Town, Leith and the Shore, the city's royal history, and a tram-line route that works as a free alternative to the open-top bus. Your phone nudges you as you approach each stop, so you can keep it in your pocket and just walk. Two tours are free. The rest are £4.79 each, or £11.99 for all of them, and once bought they're yours permanently.

Why self-guided. Edinburgh is small, walkable and best seen slowly. A guided group moves at the guide's pace and stops where the guide stops — fine if you want that, frustrating if you'd rather spend twenty minutes somewhere and skip the next thing entirely. These tours let you go at whatever speed suits you, in whatever weather, on whatever day. You can also walk them from home before you travel, which is how a lot of people use them for planning.

Requests welcome. Somewhere in the city you'd like a tour of? Email me at byfootedinburgh@gmail.com. I read everything and I'm always adding stops.