TTD's Venkatadri App Offers AI-Supported Pilgrim Assistance, Check Features

Designed to help devotees navigate Tirumala and locate essential facilities, the app features an AI-powered voice assistant that provides guidance around the clock. Pilgrims can use voice commands to find facilities such as drinking-water points and darshan entry points. The app also supports offline navigation, enabling its use in areas with weak or no internet connectivity.

Venkatadri maps more than 350 locations across 25 facility categories. These include drinking-water points, hospitals and medical centres, parking areas, public toilets, bus stops, darshan entry points, luggage centres, free footwear-deposit centres, food outlets and canteens, room-allotment counters, pilgrim help desks, TTD offices and sub-enquiry offices, Kalyana Kattas, police stations, vigilance offices, temple surroundings and shopping complexes, Matrusri Tarigonda Vengamamba Annaprasadam Complex etc.

The app provides one-touch access to emergency contacts, the police and the TTD helpline. It also displays bus routes and timings. The “Mark My Spot” feature enables pilgrims to save their parking location or another important place and navigate back to it.

Available in five languages viz - Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, Venkatadri is intended to make pilgrims’ journeys around Tirumala easier and more convenient.

The TTD is also developing kiosk access for pilgrims without smartphones. It said the initiative aims to provide devotees with convenient access to directions and essential information, contributing to a comfortable and peaceful darshan of Sri Venkateswara Swamy.

The Additional Executive Officer Sri Ch Venkaiah Chowdary and NRI Philanthropist Sri JP from the USA explained the functioning of the Venkatadri mobile app to Naidu who later congratulated TTD efforts for developing a pilgrim friendly app.