Timbre: keep the sound
Voice memories for family
Only for iPhone
$4.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Keep the sound of the people you love. Everything stays on your phone.
We keep ten thousand photos and almost never keep a voice. A voice is the fastest trace of a person to disappear from memory, and the quickest to bring them back.
timbre keeps the sound of the people and places you love. Press and hold, and it records a short spoken moment together with the room around it. The recording becomes a small living stone, colored by what it heard and sized by how long you listened, that settles into a timeline. Over months, the timeline becomes a warm field of colored stones: a map of a life in sound.
Years later you can still hear exactly how someone said your name.
WHAT IT DOES
• Press and hold. A living form blooms with your voice while you record.
• Words appear as you speak, transcribed on your phone, kept with the sound.
• Stones take their color from the world: speech glows amber, rain pulls teal.
• Tap a sentence in the transcript and playback jumps there.
• Feel a recording through your fingertips. The heartbeat traces its shape, strong enough to know a moment without hearing it.
• Gather stones by person and place: forty-one minutes of Mom.
• On This Day brings a kept moment back to your home screen, quietly. Tap it to hear the sound again.
WHAT IT DOESN'T
No account. No feed. No streaks. No ads. Nothing leaves your phone: transcription and sound understanding happen on-device, recordings stay yours, and there is no server to send them to. There is no us.
Paid once. No subscription.
BUILT FOR EVERYONE
Every stone carries a silhouette as well as a color, so meaning never rests on color alone. VoiceOver speaks the capture as it grows, and Reduce Motion is respected throughout.
Everything works in airplane mode, from the first press.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Fixes a crash that could close the app the moment you pressed to record. It affected iPad, and any device whose microphone records more than one channel.
Nothing about your kept sounds has changed. Still on your phone. Still no account.
The developer, William Alston, 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.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- William Alston
- Size
- 1.7 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 William Alston
