Coming soon

China travel guides that work offline

Download a city guide before you fly. Once you land it works with no signal, no Wi-Fi and no data left on your plan.

The app is in development

📥 Every chapter, offline

Download once at the hotel or airport. Day-by-day plans, timed-entry booking and station transfers stay readable underground and in flight mode.

🗣️ Show-to-driver address cards

Chinese name plus pinyin on one card. Hand the phone to a taxi driver instead of trying to pronounce an address or load a map that will not open.

🚄 Train facts you can check

Schedules, journey times and fares from the same live data behind this site — not a guidebook written three years ago.

Why offline, specifically

Most travel apps assume a connection. In China you often have none that works: roaming data is expensive, Google services are blocked, and free Wi-Fi usually needs a Chinese phone number to log in. That is the gap this app fills — the parts you need on the ground are on your phone before you land.

Free guides already online

The planning half of every guide is free on the website. The on-the-ground half is what the app unlocks.

Harbin Old times frozen at -30°C Read the free guide → Beijing The capital, in the shadow of the imperial walls Read the free guide → Shanghai The Paris of the East, a world of neon Read the free guide → Xi'an Capital of emperors, city of noodles Read the free guide → Chengdu Land of abundance, and nobody wants to leave Read the free guide → Hangzhou West Lake and the taste of paradise Read the free guide → Lijiang Soft light beneath the snow mountain Read the free guide → Xiamen A garden island with a talent for slow living Read the free guide → Sanya China's only tropical coast, at latitude 18 north Read the free guide → Guangzhou A city you eat your way through Read the free guide → Nanjing Six dynasties, one long wall, and a river of lanterns Read the free guide → Suzhou Gardens, canals and a slower hour Read the free guide → Qingdao Red roofs, blue water and a bag of draft beer Read the free guide → Dunhuang A desert oasis with a thousand years of painted caves Read the free guide → Pingyao A Ming-Qing county town that still goes to work Read the free guide → Lhasa At 3,650 metres, a city gets on with its day Read the free guide → Jiuzhaigou A hundred and eight lakes in a single Y-shaped valley Read the free guide → Lugu Lake Half in Yunnan, half in Sichuan, and unnervingly still Read the free guide → Mount Putuo An island with no cars, and temple gates that open onto the East China Sea Read the free guide → Hongcun A village that runs on water Read the free guide → Mount Lu A mountain with a town on top, and a cinema that shows one film Read the free guide → Mount Wudang One mountain, one god, and a pilgrim road a dynasty spent twelve years building Read the free guide → Qinghai Lake An inland sea, three thousand two hundred metres up Read the free guide → Mount Changbai Three gates, one crater lake, and a great deal of luck with the weather Read the free guide → Huangguoshu One waterfall you can walk behind, and three sites that do not touch Read the free guide → Mount Heng A mountain kept alight by incense for a thousand years, and a stairway polished by feet Read the free guide → Mount Yandang The same rocks, twice: once in daylight, once after dark Read the free guide → Dalian A northern sea, a Russian-drawn square, a tram that has run for a century Read the free guide → Shenyang A palace, a warlord's house, two imperial tombs — and a city that will not flatter you Read the free guide → Tianjin A river through the middle, a city of villas, breakfast worth planning around Read the free guide →