One-minute stories behind city streets. Read at home or turn on reminders as you pass. Save favorites, add notes and share the places you've discovered.
City Whisper collects short stories about city life: the people, local customs and past events connected to real places. Each takes about a minute to read, lists its sources, and shows you where to find the place.
Read wherever you are
Choose a city and read a few stories. Follow a City Journal, or explore a shared theme across cities in Echoes. Save your favorites and read downloaded content offline. Reading needs no location access.
Take a story to its setting
Turn on pass-by reminders and your iPhone can alert you when you reach a story's location. Choose an instant reminder, a later summary, or pause the rest of the day with Quiet for today. Find each place on the map and look for the detail in front of you.
Keep a journal of the places you find
Footprints brings your visits and pass-bys together by day, with drives grouped separately. Browse the shaded monthly calendar, add a short note or a wave sticker, and look back through a day of illustrations and stories.
Make a card to share
Turn a record or a day's visits into a share card. Preview it, save it to Photos, or use the system share sheet. Hide your notes, show only the month, or exclude places near home or work. Cards leave out exact times, coordinates and addresses.
Find your stories again
Home and lock screen widgets show stories from places you passed today. With no visits recorded that day, a widget shows a story from your current or selected city. Spotlight search finds stories you saved, visited, set a reminder for, or recently read.
The collection covers selected cities and regions. Check the city directory on the website and read a few previews before downloading. You don't need to be in a city to read its stories. Optional new-city notifications can be switched on or off in Settings, independently of pass-by reminders.
City Whisper is written and maintained by one person, with no ads or account requirement. Nearby-place checks happen on your device. Precise location is never uploaded and no GPS trail is stored. Saved stories, reading status, Footprints and notes stay on the device. If you opt in to new-city notifications, the server stores the push token, a hashed installation identifier, language and subscription settings needed to send them. It does not receive your location or Footprints. See the privacy policy for details.
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
Fixed the content and new-city notification channel configuration so the App Store version uses published content.
Your Footprints, notes, share cards and existing records are preserved.
Version 1.4.1
The developer, Xiaoyi He, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Xiaoyi He
Size
62.1 MB
Category
Lifestyle
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.