Most travel and discovery apps work the same way: a long list of activities, ranked by advertising spend, algorithmic popularity, or reviews from strangers with different taste to yours. Vintavia, live in London from today, is built for a different kind of user: the one who actually wants to explore.
The app works two ways. Planning ahead, users tell Vintavia where they’re going and what they want to do, see and spend, and it builds a day-by-day itinerary shaped by their own preferences rather than a generic template. In the moment, it works just as well: get off a train in an unfamiliar part of London, open Vintavia, and it shows exactly what’s worth doing nearby. Time and budget stay entirely in the user’s hands – set either, both or neither, and the app works out what is realistically possible within whatever window it is given.
That real-time element is where the app is most different. It is built for the version of exploring most apps ignore: the lunch break spent at the same old spot because nobody knew there was an extraordinary café two streets away, or the free afternoon that could have been spent somewhere memorable instead of somewhere familiar. Vintavia is designed to surface exactly that. Not the top ten every guidebook and AI-generated itinerary repeats, sending the same people to the same places, but a walking tour that starts from wherever you are already standing, uncovering places along the way that most visitors – and plenty of locals – never find.
“Most apps and AI chatbots hand you a list built from what’s generically popular, or who’s paid to be at the top,” said Aditya Agashe, FRGS, founder of Vintavia. “Vintavia starts from wherever you’re standing and works outwards, taking in your tastes, your budget and the time you actually have, and cross-referencing what’s possible – right now or weeks away – against opening hours, travel time and visiting time. So if it makes more sense to hike across town for the place that closes early, then come back to the spot around the corner that’s open till late, Vintavia guides you through exactly that. We built it for people who want to get out and explore, and do it efficiently, whether that’s planning a trip properly or making the most of an afternoon you didn’t expect to have free.”
London is Vintavia’s most thoroughly mapped city at launch, and the app is built for residents and visitors alike: Londoners rediscovering their own neighbourhoods, and visitors looking past the obvious. Coverage currently extends to more than 750 places of interest to visit across 32 cities in five Western European countries, with new places added weekly, meaning travellers heading further afield can build a trip that goes beyond the checklist of sights every guidebook repeats.
Vintavia is free to download and available now on iOS and Android, via the App Store and Google Play.
Vintavia’s approach to real-time, location-based discovery is patent pending. Founder Aditya Agashe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) in 2026 for the invention and endeavour behind the platform. A full founder biography is available on request from the media contact below.
