Geophonica is our homemade location-based app platform. It’s a framework we use to efficiently build custom apps for people that need them. Apps built with Geophonica use the phones we carry everyday to enhance how we experience our natural and built environments.

In a Geophonica app, content like audio, images, and text are tied to real-world locations. As a user gets close to a location, the content can be activated and displayed.

Below are screenshots from a demo app we built using Geophonica to show what a custom app could look like.

Apps built on the Geophonica platform can be used for:

• walking/driving tours (urban and rural)
• puzzles + scavenger hunts
• sound + visual art installations
• outdoor and nature-based education
• enhancing digital main streets
• festivals and special events
• historical and cultural outreach
• interactive tourism maps
• …whatever you can imagine!

Geophonica is currently available for Android, with plans to bring it to iOS devices in the future. For more information, check out our Geophonica micro-site.

If you’d like to discuss working together to build your own custom app, we’d love to hear from you!