# Timbre: keep the sound

> Voice memories for family

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6792492536](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6792492536)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6792492536`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** William Alston
- **Category:** Lifestyle
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-31
- **First published:** 2026-08-04
- **Size:** 1.81 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timbre-keep-the-sound/id6792492536)
- **Website:** [https://williamdalston.github.io/timbre/](https://williamdalston.github.io/timbre/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://williamdalston.github.io/timbre/privacy.html](https://williamdalston.github.io/timbre/privacy.html)

## Description

Free to start. 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.

Free for your first 50 recordings. After that a single payment keeps it unlimited — one payment, never a subscription. Everything you have already kept stays yours either way.

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.

## Rankings

- #1,667,951 — Overall

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