🇬🇧 London — Available now
Sonic City turns London's streets into a music history tour. Walk past a landmark and your iPhone plays the track connected to it — automatically, no tapping required.
Free · No ads · No subscription · No tracking · Requires Apple Music
Explore London's music landmarks
Your London music map
The full story behind every location
Open Sonic City and start walking. Everything else is automatic — and between landmarks, an optional soundtrack keeps the music going.
Open the app, put your phone in your pocket, and walk. Your GPS is always on in the background.
Within 50 metres of a music landmark, your iPhone detects it automatically — no tapping required.
A vinyl-crackle DJ transition cues the track from your Apple Music subscription. The music connected to this place.
Sonic City runs quietly in the background, doing all the work. You just walk.
No tapping, no menus. Walk close enough to a landmark and the track plays. Completely automatic.
Turn it up to 11 and a handpicked soundtrack plays as you walk — then steps aside the moment you reach a landmark, and picks up where it left off when you move on.
The landmark you're at lives on your Lock Screen. One tap opens the full story — no unlocking, no hunting through the app.
Every landmark has a reason it matters — a lyric, a gig, a home, a last day. Read it before you walk past.
Collect a stamp for every landmark you visit. Build your personal London music map. Each stamp is earned in the field.
Download the London pack and the app works without a signal. Perfect for the Underground and signal-dead areas.
London is just the start. Manchester, Liverpool, and New York are next. Each city gets its own handpicked music heritage pack.
Every city is a carefully curated pack of real, documented music landmarks — places where history was made and can be heard.
20 landmarks · 20 tracks · From the Beatles to Stormzy
Walk the streets where rock was born, where punk erupted, and where British soul found its voice. Abbey Road, Heddon Street, Brixton, Carnaby Street — 20 of the most significant music locations in the world, each linked to a track you know.
The Haçienda · Oasis · Joy Division
The Cavern · Beatles · Merseybeat
Brooklyn · Hip-hop · Manhattan
No ads. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No tracking. Sonic City is free — all you need is an active Apple Music subscription to stream the music.
Always. No catch.
Requires an active Apple Music subscription. Spotify support is coming soon.
Download on the App StoreI built Sonic City because I kept walking past music history without knowing it was there. I'm obsessed with music and cities, and I wanted an app that would just tell me — no effort, no searching. So I built it for myself. Then I thought: why not share it? No business model, no investor deck. Just a passion project from someone who thinks every street deserves to be heard.— Simon, developer
Sonic City is a free GPS-triggered music heritage app for iPhone. Walk around London and when you get close to a landmark, your iPhone automatically plays the track that was made, recorded, or associated with that location.
Nothing. Open the app, put your phone in your pocket, and walk. The GPS does the rest. Within 50 metres of a landmark, the track plays with a vinyl-crackle DJ transition.
Yes. Sonic City plays tracks directly from your Apple Music subscription — you'll need an active one. Sonic City doesn't store or stream music itself. Spotify support is coming soon.
Yes, completely free. No ads, no subscription, no in-app purchases. The only requirement is an active Apple Music subscription to stream the music.
The London pack can be downloaded for offline use. GPS doesn't work underground, but you can browse landmark stories and listen to already-triggered tracks without a signal.
GPS use does increase battery consumption. We recommend starting with a full charge for a long walk. Sonic City uses iOS's efficient significant-location-change API to minimise battery impact.
London is available now with 300+ landmarks. Manchester, Liverpool, and New York are in development and coming soon.
On your device only. Sonic City has no user accounts and no server. Your location is processed entirely by iOS — it never leaves your phone. We collect nothing.
Free. No ads. No subscription. Walk past a landmark — hear the track connected to it.
iPhone only · Requires Apple Music · Spotify coming soon
Got a question, found a bug, or want to suggest a landmark? Drop us a line — we get back within one working day.
hello@sonic-city.app