Hear the stories
hiding in plain sight

City Whisper puts carefully sourced local stories back where they happened. Read a whole city at your own pace, or choose to get a quiet reminder when you pass a story.

Get it freeDownload on the App Store For iPhone · Requires iOS 15.1 or later

No ads or in-app purchases
Read without location access
Precise location is never uploaded

SCREEN 01 / SEATTLE **Real app interface · Simplified Chinese** No personal address, live location, or travel history

The real City Whisper story screen, showing Seattle's Hammering Man story and editorial sketch in Simplified Chinese — SCREEN 01 / SEATTLE **Real app interface · Simplified Chinese** No personal address, live location, or travel history

13cities and regions

1,600local stories

5interface languages

FIELD NOTES / 01—04FROM THE CITY WHISPER ARCHIVE

A city can read like a small zine

Drawing a place into every story

Each illustration belongs to a sourced story about a real place. It is not a historical photograph or a claimed reconstruction—just a quieter doorway into the reading.

Black-and-white editorial sketch of Seattle's Mystery Soda Machine — 01 / SEATTLEThe mystery soda machine went missing

Black-and-white editorial sketch of Harvard Bridge and its Smoot marks in Boston — 02 / BOSTONThe bridge measured with a classmate

Black-and-white editorial sketch of the dragon playground in Toa Payoh, Singapore — 03 / SINGAPOREThe dragon beneath the housing blocks

Black-and-white editorial sketch of Hong Kong's Blue House cluster — 04 / HONG KONGThe Blue House kept its residents

EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS · FROM PUBLISHED CITY WHISPER STORIES

Get closer, not just checked in

Stories that appear in the right place

Browse before you go

Explore every city, use the map, and save stories without turning on location access.

A quiet reminder as you pass

Reminders are optional, adjustable, and can stay quiet on your schedule. Every proximity check happens on your device.

See where each story comes from

Every story includes public sources. Place images are editorial illustrations—not historical photos or evidence.

A growing shelf of cities

Listen to these cities now

1,600 stories across 13 cities and regions.

Seattle · 258San Francisco Bay Area · 102Chicago · 206Greater Los Angeles · 162New York City · 112New Jersey · 53Greater Boston · 165London · 100Shanghai · 55Hong Kong · 120Taipei · 106Singapore · 108Metro Vancouver · 53

Content status updated Aug 4, 2026.

Privacy is a product boundary

Your trail through a city belongs to you

City Whisper has no accounts, no third-party analytics SDK, and no saved GPS trail. Your bookmarks, reading history, and visited status stay on your device.

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Precise location is not uploaded
No advertising trackers
Turn off pass-by reminders anytime

City Whisper

Hear a different city the next time you pass by

City Whisper is a free, non-commercial personal project about urban history. App Store availability varies by region.

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Hear the storieshiding in plain sight