Travel intelligence · Out now on iOS
Know before your arrival
Velora reads a city the way someone who lives there would. Safety, money, entry rules, nightlife and where you fit — one brief, before you book anything.
Static sky presets. Inside the app the Atmosphere Engine composes the real sky from the destination's own light, hour and weather.
The Atmosphere Engine, running here, not a picture of it. Each sky is computed from that place's real coordinates, local hour and weather report, by the same code that runs inside the app.
The app, screen by screen
Name a city. Velora does the reading.
Search any city on earth
No itinerary builder, no trip wizard, no ten open tabs. One field, anywhere on earth, and a brief assembled the moment you ask for it.
Everything about it, in one read
Safety, money, entry rules, nightlife, the districts that suit you — read against your passport and your home base, with the confidence behind every call shown rather than hidden.
Not the country — the street
A national advisory tells you nothing about the eight blocks you booked. Velora reads a city district by district, keeps a second map for after dark, and puts the local emergency number on screen before you need it.
Every city you have stood in
Cities stamped, countries covered, the share of the world you have actually been to. A record rather than a scoreboard — and what the briefs read to know who is asking.
A friend who has been is an answer
A stranger's review is a data point. Put your passports beside each other, see who has already been where you are going, and ask the one person whose taste you actually know.
What is behind an answer
Nothing here is made up on the spot.
The research already happened, city by city — every fact written down with the kind of source behind it and the date it was checked. A search reads it back.
Separate facts Velora can already answer from
Counted once each, researched and written down before you searched. It arrives in two halves — both are added up here, and the total is only ever their sum.
Across 95 cities, 80 of them researched to the floor — all 44 scored attributes present, none left to a guess. Not downloadable from anywhere.
- 4,645 Sourced facts about a city
- 1,312 Bars and clubs, each in a district
- 448 Nightlife districts they sit in
- 218 Quotes lifted from local sources
2,192 research · 1,148 curated · 1,105 official · 128 derived · 72 community
Open reference data built into the app. A passport answer is a lookup in memory: no API in the way, no waiting on somebody else's service.
- 39,601 visa answers — every passport against every country
- 3,262 airports, so Velora knows how you would get there
- 246 countries' currencies, so a price is money you recognise
- Every fact says where it came from. Stamped with the date it was last checked, and the link kept where there is one.
- A blank is left blank. Not yet researched is said out loud. The gap is never filled with a guess.
- The total is the parts, added. Every figure counted once. Move a part and the headline moves with it.
How the match works
A score that can tell you why.
35 numbers about you, 44 about each city, compared with 39 rules that each have a name and a reason. So when a city scores 80, Velora can say which parts of you it is answering. A model that guesses cannot.
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Can only help
Something you want
Care about food and find a food city: the city gains. Not caring costs it nothing.
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Helps or hurts
A level that has to match
Too expensive is wrong, and so is too cheap. Both get marked down.
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The only veto
A line you will not cross
Safety, and nothing else. A city under your bar is told to you in words.
Try it — one rule, both ends Berlin
- What it does to Berlin's score
- Strong lift
- What Velora will tell you
- “has the nights you are looking for”
Sample behaviour, not the engine. Direction and strength are shown; the weights stay ours.
- Thin research scores lower. A city known by two facts is pulled back toward the middle, however well those two went.
- You are told how sure it is. Low, fair or high, beside every score — and it takes the weaker of knowing you and knowing the city.
- Nothing ever scores 100. No city is a certainty or a write-off. A perfect score tells you about the product, not the place.
Why not just ask a chatbot
Because it will lie to you with a straight face.
A general model
Answers a factual question wrongly a large share of the time, and states it with the same confidence either way.1
Velora
Answers from research that was written down first, and shows the confidence behind the call.
A general model
Has no idea which passport you hold or where you are flying from unless you tell it, every time.
Velora
Reads every city against your passport, your home base and 35 things you actually told it.
A general model
Advises on safety at the level of a country, which says nothing about the eight blocks you booked.
Velora
Reads a city district by district, keeps a second map for after dark, and puts the local emergency number on screen.
1 · OpenAI (2024), measuring short-form factuality in large language models. Velora's own accuracy has not been independently audited.
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Be there before you go.
Ten searches a day, every brief saved, your passport started. Takes a moment.
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