Comparison
Roots Albania and Audiala: the facts
Roots Albania is an app for iPhone and Android with audio stories about 211 places in ten Albanian cities, in 28 languages, written by local people. Audiala is an app for iOS and Android with a web version, which its Google Play listing describes as "Your personal audio guide, in your pocket." The table puts the facts of both side by side; every Audiala fact on this page comes from Audiala's own pages, read on 16 September 2026, and is listed under Sources.
Published 15 September 2026. Markdown: compare/audiala.md
How do Roots Albania and Audiala compare?
| Fact | Roots Albania | Audiala |
|---|---|---|
| What it covers in Albania | 211 places in ten cities, each city with its own map of places | 12 cities on the Albania page, Tirana with 79 guides |
| Cities and places, where published | 10 cities and 211 places, all in Albania | 117,000 monuments and 1,890 cities (App Store); 117,000+ places across 1,890 cities (Google Play) |
| Languages | 28 languages, with a male and a female voice in each | 11 languages (both stores) |
| Account needed | No account | Not stated on their site |
| Plays offline | Yes, once a city's audio is downloaded | Yes, with whole cities downloaded in advance (Google Play) |
| Who writes the content, where stated | Local people write the stories | "AI-assisted content generation", reviewed by their editors (editorial process page); places "narrated by AI" (Google Play) |
| Platforms | iPhone (iOS 16.0 or later) and Android | iOS, Android and the web |
| Store links | App Store and Google Play | App Store and Google Play |
This page is about Roots Albania, and What Roots Albania is describes the app in full.
Every row in full
What it covers in Albania
Roots Albania: 211 places in ten Albanian cities: Tirana 39, Vlora 34, Saranda 33, Durrës 23, Berat 15, Gjirokastra 15, Korça 15, Pogradec 15, Shkodra 12 and Kruja 10. Every city has its own map of places.
Audiala: The Albania page states 12 cities and names nine of them: Tirana, with 79 guides, then Berat, Gjirokastër, Sarandë, Shkodër, Durrës, Valbonë, Theth and Himarë. Source: 4.
Cities and places, where published
Roots Albania: 10 cities and 211 places, all of them in Albania. Every place has two audio stories: a short introduction and a story of about six minutes.
Audiala: The App Store description states "117,000 monuments. 1,890 cities." The Google Play description states "117,000+ places across 1,890 cities, in 11 languages". Sources: 5, 6.
Languages
Roots Albania: 28 languages: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian, with a male and a female voice in every one.
Audiala: 11 languages, on both store listings. The App Store Languages field lists 11 entries: Czech, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish. Sources: 5, 6.
Account needed
Roots Albania: No account is needed: open a city, pick a place and play.
Audiala: Not stated on their site.
Plays offline
Roots Albania: Yes. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.
Audiala: Yes. The Google Play description states that whole cities can be downloaded in advance and that Audiala then becomes a full offline travel guide with no signal needed. Source: 6.
Who writes the content, where stated
Roots Albania: The stories are written by local people.
Audiala: The editorial process page states "Audiala uses AI-assisted content generation to produce guides at scale while maintaining editorial quality" and uses "large language models to transform structured research into readable, engaging prose", drawing facts from "Wikidata and Wikipedia", "Official tourism boards and municipal websites" and "Web search across multiple sources", and adds that its editors review flagged content, low-confidence claims, source contradictions and reader reports, and spot-check new guides. The Google Play description states that places are "narrated by AI and refined with real sources". Sources: 3, 6.
Platforms
Roots Albania: iPhone with iOS 16.0 or later, and Android.
Store links
Roots Albania: App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761542889. Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsalbania.app.
Audiala: App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6446038181. Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.audiala.audioguide. Sources: 5, 6.
Sources
Every Audiala fact on this page was read on 16 September 2026 from a page Audiala publishes itself; times are UTC. The Roots Albania column is from the Roots Albania catalogue and its store listings, counted on 12 September 2026.
- https://audiala.com: Audiala home page, read 16 September 2026 at 06:49 UTC; read again in a browser at 06:52 UTC, because the page renders with JavaScript.
- https://audiala.com/about/: Audiala about page, read 16 September 2026 at 06:49 UTC; read again in a browser at 06:52 UTC, because the page renders with JavaScript.
- https://audiala.com/about/editorial-process/: Audiala editorial process page, read 16 September 2026 at 06:49 UTC.
- https://audiala.com/en/albania: Audiala Albania page, read 16 September 2026 at 06:49 UTC; read again in a browser at 06:52 UTC, because the page renders with JavaScript.
- https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6446038181&country=us: Audiala App Store listing, read 16 September 2026 at 06:49 UTC; Apple's own lookup service for the App Store listing, which returns the listing's published fields.
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.audiala.audioguide&hl=en&gl=US: Audiala Google Play listing, read 16 September 2026 at 06:49 UTC.
Roots Albania in short
- 211 places across 10 Albanian cities
- 10 cities, each with its own map of places
- 28 languages
- 2 stories for every place: a short introduction and a story of about six minutes
- No account
- Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection
- The stories are written by local people
Get the app on the App Store for iPhone and on Google Play for Android.
Roots Albania for iOS and Android is made by ROOTS SHPK, Rruga Zef Jubani, Nd. 4, H. 1, Ap. 3, Njësia Administrative Nr. 5, 1000 Tiranë, Albania, NUIS M61803028A, D-U-N-S 631176123, +355 69 443 8348, hello@rootsalbania.com, roots-shpk.com and rootsearth.com.