# Sounds of the World

> Hear a new instrument daily

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6790924626](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6790924626)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6790924626`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Yiwen Luo
- **Category:** Music
- **Version:** 1.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-31
- **First published:** 2026-07-31
- **Size:** 14 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sounds-of-the-world/id6790924626)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/yiwenluo-gogogo/soundsoftheworld-support](https://github.com/yiwenluo-gogogo/soundsoftheworld-support)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://github.com/yiwenluo-gogogo/soundsoftheworld-support/blob/main/PRIVACY.md](https://github.com/yiwenluo-gogogo/soundsoftheworld-support/blob/main/PRIVACY.md)

## Description

Meet a new traditional instrument each day - hear its real sound, learn its story, then guess the mystery sound, mix a soundscape, or play it yourself. Free.

Hear the world, one instrument a day.

Every morning, Sounds of the World introduces one traditional instrument from somewhere on the planet - and lets you actually HEAR it. The Armenian duduk that sounds like a voice singing in its sleep. The West African kora, twenty-one strings plucked like a harp. The Chinese sheng, a bamboo mouth organ that breathes like a chorus. Real recordings shared by musicians under Creative Commons, never synthesized.

THE SOUND IS THE HERO
- Tap play and hear a real recording of each day's instrument
- A short, curiosity-first story: where it comes from, how it's played, the music it belongs to
- At-a-glance facts, a tactile waveform, and playback that works even on silent

PLAY, GUESS, AND EXPLORE
- Guess the Sound: a daily listening game. Hear a growing clip and name the instrument before your guesses run out, then share your spoiler-free score.
- Sound Mixer: blend instruments into a living soundscape for focus, sleep, or calm, with a sleep timer.
- Play it yourself: tap pads that play the real instrument, pitch-shifted across a scale.
- World Sound Atlas: every instrument you've met, pinned to a globe. Search, favourite, and follow themed listening journeys.

YOUR SOUND PASSPORT
- Build a streak each day you listen
- Collect instrument families and countries, and celebrate milestones
- Share any instrument as a beautiful card, or as a video reel that actually plays the sound

WIDGETS AND MORE
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with today's instrument, one tap to hear it
- A gentle morning reminder with tomorrow's curiosity hook
- Warm, quiet design in light and dark
- Free. No account, no ads, no tracking, ever

All recordings are from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences, with author and licence shown beside every clip.

The world is full of instruments you've never heard. Here's one a day.

## Rankings

- #1,315,227 — Overall

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