Sounds of the World
iOS app by Yiwen Luo. Music · Yiwen Luo
- Store rating
- 0 / 5
- Store rating count
- 0
- Download price
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
- Unknown
- Version
- 1.6
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-11
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Store description excerpt
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.
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