City Whisper: Street Stories

City stories. Your footprints.

Only for iPhone

Free

iPhone

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.

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    1 Ratings

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.

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 .

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    The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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    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.
    Languages
    English and 2 more
    • English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
    Age Rating
    13+
    • 13+
    • Infrequent
      Realistic Violence
      Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
      Guns or Other Weapons
    Copyright
    © 2026 Xiaoyi He