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Bologna, 2018
A professor who gave ideas away. One had already become one of Italy’s first delivery apps.
About
Never again
“where am I?”
Aneddo is the guide that walks with you in Rome. It tells you where you are, what you’re looking at, and the story no plaque tells. Out loud, while you walk.
Put it on. I’ll tell you where you are.
Why Aneddo
Audio guides give you cards.
We give you a walk.
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With Aneddo
Mission
Make every walk feel like one with a friend who knows the city’s stories.
Vision
Every city, every street, in your earbuds. With sources, and in your language.
The story
An idea that waited for its moment.
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The idea
Phone in your pocket, earbuds in, and you walk. That’s it. The city does the talking.
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Too big, back then
It needed writers, voices and translators for every street. The idea waited.
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Now it’s possible
AI researches, writes, translates and voices. A person approves every story.
Why Rome
Walk one kilometre, cross two thousand years.
It’s the hardest city to tell. If it works here, it works anywhere.
How a story is made
Six steps. The last one is a person.
- 1AIResearchsources, archives, studies
- 2AIWritea 90-second story
- 3AICheckdates, names, quotes
- 4AITranslateIT ⇄ EN, more to come
- 5AIVoicenatural, not robotic
- ✓Approvea person, always
40places in Rome2languages: IT and EN5ready-made walks100%stories reviewed by a person
Our rules
Four promises.
Location stays on your phone
Route and stops never leave your iPhone.
Every story has sources
See where it comes from.
No legends passed as history
If it’s a legend, we say so.
Sponsors always labelled
Stories aren’t for sale.
Who’s behind it
Hi, I’m Davide.
Always travelling10+ years in softwareAI · XR · Digital Twin
I travel a lot, and I can’t sit still. I land somewhere for a few days and end up living there. I walk, I look, and every time I wonder: what’s behind that door? Who lived here?
“I want to know more about what I see.”
The answers were on a faded sign, or in a tab I never opened. So I built something that tells me.
By trade I’m a software engineer: for over ten years I’ve turned research into real products, across AI, augmented reality and digital twins. Aneddo is the idea from that 2018 classroom, with today’s tools.
— Davide Talevi, founder · davidetalevi.com
The story so far
- 2018The idea, in a classroom in Bologna
- September 202640 places, 5 walks, IT and EN
- October 18Beta in Rome with the first testers
- NovemberWalks v1 and first partner hotels
- March 2027Launch on the App Store
What we need now
Three doors. Pick yours.
Walking around Rome?
Try the beta and tell us where you got lost.
Join the beta →Run a place or a hotel?
Bakeries, cafés, shops, hotels and B&Bs: get found by people on foot.
See For businesses →Know a story?
Corrections, anecdotes, sources: we read them all.
Write to us →In short
Aneddo is an AI audio guide for Rome. You keep your phone in your pocket with one earbud in. When you walk past something worth knowing, Aneddo asks whether you want the story, tells it, and answers your questions out loud.
- What it is
- An AI audio guide app that tells stories based on where you are and talks with you by voice
- City
- Rome, Italy (first city)
- Topics
- History, architecture, film locations, food, hidden spots
- How you use it
- Phone in your pocket, one earbud in. No screen needed while walking
- Languages
- English and Italian
- Platforms
- iPhone first, Android later
- Price
- Rome 72-hour pass: €3.99 at launch, then €5.99. The first walk is free
- Status
- Free beta in Rome from October 2026; public launch planned for 2027
- Privacy
- Location is used only during a walk you start, and it stays on your phone. Your route is never stored on Aneddo's servers
- AI
- Stories start from verified sources and are reviewed by people. Live answers are generated by AI, and Aneddo says when it doesn't know
- Name
- From the Italian word aneddoto, meaning anecdote
- Made in
- Rome, Italy
- Contact
- ciao@aneddo.com
The tourist in the video is AI-made.