MumbleWay
Mumble voice for motorcycles
Free
Talk through the wind. Voice chat for bikers.
Hear your group and be heard, however far apart you ride — through the intercom already in your helmet.
MumbleWay is a voice client for Mumble servers, built for talking from inside a motorcycle helmet at speed.
Wind is the hard part. At speed it is loud, broadband and relentless, and it defeats the suppression in ordinary voice apps, which was tuned for offices. MumbleWay's chain is built for a different problem: a steep high-pass that strips wind and engine rumble before anything else sees it, a neural denoiser for the broadband roar, and a transmit decision that measures your voice against a noise floor which climbs with speed. A steady drone raises that floor with it and never clears the margin, however loud. Speech does.
YOU NEED A MUMBLE SERVER
MumbleWay connects to any of them — a friend's box, one at the clubhouse, a public server from the built-in directory, or one you run yourself. It is a client, not a service: no account, no subscription, nobody's servers in the middle.
BUILT FOR A BIKE
• Noise profiles from Light to Helmet, or Auto, which picks from what it hears and shows where it landed.
• Voice activation opens 240 ms ahead of its own decision, so a word keeps its first consonant; the delay is then paid back to 200 ms.
• Push to talk, voice activation, or open microphone.
• Works over Bluetooth intercom headsets on the hands-free profile, where the boom microphone lives.
• Pair a handlebar Bluetooth remote and it learns whatever yours actually sends, rather than offering a list of keys that may not match it. Hold to talk, or tap to toggle.
• Walkie-talkie cues on key and unkey, so you know you are live without looking down.
FOR WHEN YOU ARE NOT LOOKING AT THE SCREEN
• A floating window over your navigation app on Android, Picture in Picture on iPhone and iPad, a panel on Mac.
• A falling two-tone when the connection drops and a rising one when it returns — you learn from the headset, not from silence.
• Automatic reconnection unless you disconnected yourself: every ten seconds with a countdown, and at once when signal returns.
• Audio keeps running with the screen locked and the phone in a pocket.
TALKING TO PEOPLE
• Channel tree and roster, with per-person mute and volume.
• Group voice with no range limit: everyone joins one channel over mobile data.
• Two servers connected at once.
• Live ping per server, and whether voice goes direct over UDP or is tunnelled through TCP when a carrier will not pass it.
• A jitter buffer that plays a backlog off at up to double speed, rather than leaving everybody a second behind.
• Join or share by QR code or a mumble:// link.
• Reach a server through an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy when the network cuts the connection — one server or all, voice direct or through it too, and shared like a server.
• If the server is yours: groups, permissions, registration, kick and ban.
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
Voice is encrypted with AES-128 and the control channel runs over TLS. Server certificates are pinned on first connection and a changed one is refused until you say otherwise. MumbleWay has no servers of its own, no analytics and no advertising.
ON AN OLDER PHONE
A block of audio arrives every 10 ms and the chain has to finish before the next one. If your phone cannot manage that, MumbleWay turns stages off one at a time, cheapest first — and says which ones, rather than quietly sounding worse.
DIAGNOSTICS
An optional panel shows the chain working — the spectrum before and after suppression, and which stage stopped a sound reaching the far end. A recorder, off unless you switch it on, captures what your headset hears on a ride, to play back as the far end heard it.
NOT ONLY ON A BIKE
In a quiet room the Light profile takes almost nothing out. At a desk or at 120 km/h, the same client: Opus at 48 kHz, no account, no telemetry.
MumbleWay is free and open source. It is an independent client, not affiliated with the Mumble project.
MADE BY
Ilya Melamed
Site: https://zavitax.github.io/mumbleway/
Source: https://github.com/zavitax/mumbleway
Chat: https://discord.gg/NTASPRFjm
Reach a server through a proxy.
On a network that cuts the connection to a Mumble server, or blocks it, you can now dial through an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy — for one server or for all of them, with voice going straight to the server or through the proxy too. A proxy can be shared by link or QR code, like a server.
Also: links in welcome messages and channel descriptions work, a channel you may not speak in is marked, and groups and permissions can be managed in the app.
The developer, Ilya Melamed, 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
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Information
- Seller
- Ilya Melamed
- Size
- 122.1 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 10.15 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © Ilya Melamed