The official visitor app for the Cradle of Humankind. Maps, video, and augmented reality, on the phone you already carry.
Gauteng, 2025–Present
A guide that has to work outside.
The Cradle of Humankind is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of the main places people go to learn where humans come from.
In 2025 Worldbuild designed and built the official visitor app with the Gauteng regional government. It is on the App Store and on Google Play, under Worldbuild's name.
- Phones
- iOS and Android. No headset demo.
- On the site
- Maps, video, and augmented reality for people who came to walk the place.
- The constraint
- Glare, a patchy signal, and copy that must not invent fossils.
- Who it is for
- Visitors, not a festival crowd that already owns a headset.
What the app shows
Worldbuild's credit
Design and the build.
Full production. Design and development, from the Unity lineage of the studio's other work, shipped as a normal phone app.
The About screen prints the line: Designed and built by joburg-based studio, worldbuild.io.
Credits
- Design and development
- Worldbuild
- With
- Gauteng regional government
- For
- Cradle of Humankind
Get the app
Both stores list it under Worldbuild.
To talk about the app, or about another heritage guide, write to Dale.