APPRICIO - PRESS FACTS
Matches https://appricio.com/press as of 2026-08-24. Contact: hello@appricio.com (read by a person, replied within a day)

ONE LINE
The travel guide that tells you to skip the Eiffel Tower.

BOILERPLATE
Appricio is an AI-native travel guide that replaces the endless list with a few opinionated picks for what to do right now. It reads your location, the hour, the weather and your taste, hands you the few places a local would actually choose, and explains why each one fits. It is brave enough to call out tourist traps, and it ranks nothing by who pays.

All 50 launch cities are curated in depth and free in full. Plus ($29.99/yr) adds unlimited saves, multi-day trip planning, the events calendar and arrival alerts, with worldwide coverage on Plus arriving later this year. iPhone now, Android next.

FACT SHEET
- Product: Appricio for iPhone. Free, with an optional Plus subscription at $29.99 per year
- Launched: August 7, 2026 on the App Store (quiet release); public launch August 19, 2026 on Product Hunt
- Current version: 1.0.2, released August 23, 2026
- Coverage: 50 cities curated in depth across six continents, roughly 12,000 venues, all free in full
- Free vs paid: The 50 launch cities are free in full, forever. Plus adds unlimited saves, multi-day trip planning, the events calendar and arrival alerts today, and worldwide coverage later this year: opening any city on Earth, on demand
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/appricio-be-a-local-anywhere/id6772486086
- Web: https://appricio.com
- Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/appricio
- Team: solo founder

THE STORY
Martin Tantow spends his days on the other side of the table: partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures in Silicon Valley, and before that a serial entrepreneur who founded and sold 3scale (acquired by Red Hat), Scaler, and CloudTimes. Appricio is the app he kept waiting for someone else to build. Nobody did. So he built it himself, alone.

The itch is one every traveler knows. Land somewhere new, open the usual apps, and drown: fifty pins, a top-100 list, forty reviews deep and still no answer. Every travel app hands you options. None of them help you choose.

Appricio is the opposite bet. It reads the moment you are in, commits to the few picks a local would actually choose, says why, and offers a Plan B if you have already been. It will even tell you to skip the Eiffel Tower when the queue is two hours and landmarks are not your thing. What Lonely Planet was decades ago, rebuilt for the AI era.

More about Martin: https://tantow.com

HOW IT WORKS (THE TECHNICAL STORY)
Ranking is a deterministic TypeScript scoring engine: distance, time-of-day fit, weather fit, learned taste weights, and an editorial significance score. Venues are never ranked by star ratings or by who pays. An LLM (Anthropic's Claude) is used for exactly two things: writing the editorial "why" behind each pick and generating the city guides. It never picks or orders anything. Every venue photo is machine-verified before it ships. Guest-first: no signup required. Works offline for cached cities. No ads.

WHAT APPRICIO IS NOT
A reviews aggregator. A directory you scroll forever. A feed of sponsored placements. A social network. It is what to do, where you are, right now, and a real plan when you travel.

FILES IN THIS KIT
- appricio-icon-512.png (app icon)
- appricio-screenshot-01..08.png (App Store set, 1320x2868, iPhone 16 Pro Max)
- founder-martin-tantow.jpg (Martin at the Monopteros, English Garden, Munich)
