Every visitor hears the guide, in their language
PocketStage streams your guide's voice straight to each visitor's earbuds, with live captions and translation on their phone. Clear tours in noisy spaces, for international groups, with no radio receivers or headsets to buy, hand out, or sanitize.
Noisy spaces, spread-out groups, and visitors from everywhere
A busy gallery, a loud street, or a humming factory makes it hard for a group to hear the guide, and the back of the group misses the most. The usual answer, a radio tour-guide system with a bin of receiver headsets, is expensive to buy and a chore to charge, hand out, collect, and sanitize on every tour, and it still leaves out international visitors who need another language.
PocketStage does the same job with what every visitor already carries. Show one QR code at the start of the tour and the guide comes through their earbuds, with captions and translation, however loud the room or wide the group.
What PocketStage gives your tours
Every visitor hears the guide
The guide's voice streams straight to each visitor's earbuds, clear over a noisy gallery, a busy street, or a humming factory floor, even for the people at the back of the group.
No headsets to hand out
Skip the radio receivers and headsets you buy, charge, distribute, collect, and sanitize every tour. Visitors use the phones and earbuds already in their pockets.
Translation for international visitors
Each visitor reads and follows along in the language they choose, so an international group takes the same tour without booking a separate guide per language.
The guide can speak softly
Because everyone hears through earbuds, the guide never has to raise their voice, so a quiet museum stays quiet and neighboring tour groups are not disturbed.
Captions for accessibility
Live captions on each visitor's phone help people who are deaf or hard of hearing follow the tour, a simple step toward an accessible, welcoming experience.
Runs for groups big and small
One QR code works for a two-person private tour or a full coach group, and you can run several tours at once, each on its own session.
No hardware bin to manage
A radio tour-guide system carries purchase, charging, and upkeep costs on every tour. PocketStage replaces most of them with something your visitors already own.
The traditional setup
- A radio tour-guide system with a transmitter per guide
- A pool of receiver headsets to buy up front
- Charging, handing out, collecting, and sanitizing units every tour
- A separate guide or channel for each additional language
- Replacing lost, broken, or aging receivers over time
With PocketStage
- Visitors use the phones and earbuds already in their pockets
- Live captions and translation are built in on every plan
- One QR code starts a tour, with nothing to distribute or collect
- Usage-based pricing, so you pay for the minutes each tour actually uses
- Nothing to buy, charge, sanitize, or replace between tours
Actual savings depend on your tours, group sizes, and languages. Want to talk it through? Talk to us.
Start a tour in seconds
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The guide starts a session from their phone and picks the language they are speaking.
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Show the QR code at the meeting point, on a sign, a lanyard card, or the ticket. Visitors scan it and tap once to join.
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They hear the guide on their earbuds and read captions in their language, all the way around the tour.
Good for
Guided-tour questions
Does it work in a noisy gallery or outdoors on a busy street?+
Yes. Because each visitor listens through their own earbuds rather than trying to hear a guide over the ambient noise, the tour stays clear in a loud museum hall, on a city street, or on a factory floor.
Do visitors need headsets or a receiver?+
No. They scan a QR code or open a link, tap once, and listen in their phone's browser through their own earbuds. There is nothing for you to hand out, collect, or sanitize.
Can international visitors follow in their own language?+
Yes. Each visitor picks their language and reads live translated captions while they listen, so one guide reaches a multilingual group without a separate tour per language.
Does the guide have to speak loudly?+
No, and that is part of the appeal. The guide's voice goes straight to each visitor's earbuds, so they can speak normally or softly without shouting over noise or disturbing a quiet space or other groups.
Can we run several tours at the same time?+
Yes. Each tour runs as its own session with its own QR code, so multiple guides can lead separate groups at once without crossing streams.
What do visitors need for it to work?+
A phone with earbuds and a data connection, either cellular or your venue wifi. In spots with no signal at all, plan for wifi coverage where your tours run, the same way any connected experience would.
Give your next tour a clearer voice
Start free, no credit card, and add clear audio, captions, and translation to your tours in minutes.