A listening app from Lowtide Audio
Everything you meant to read, read to you.
Murmur turns the articles, newsletters, PDFs, and email you save into calm, natural listening, in a voice you choose. For the walk to work, the washing-up, and the last light of the day.
Coming to iPhone, Android, and the web in early 2027.
Voices
Four voices, each with a temperament.
Walk down an old street on a hot afternoon and you can feel a decision someone made a hundred years ago. The air is cooler under the planes. The light comes down in pieces, and moves across the pavement like water.
Listen anywhere
Your queue, ready whenever your hands are busy.
A day with Murmur
The shade we inherit
The Long Field · read by Theo
Queue
Save from anywhere
However it reaches you, Murmur can read it.
- A phone share sheet with Murmur as the first destination
Share sheet
Tap Share in any app on your phone and choose Murmur; it is in your queue before the screen locks.
- A browser window with the Murmur extension confirming the page is saved
Browser extension
One click saves the page you are on, without the menus, ads, and cookie banners.
- An email being forwarded to a personal Murmur address
Email forwarding
Forward newsletters and threads to your own Murmur address and they arrive ready to play.
- Murmur on the web reading the pages of an uploaded PDF
PDF upload
Drop in a PDF and Murmur reads the text, skipping page numbers, headers, and footnote markers.
Talk to the orb
Say something. It is listening, gently.
Turn on your microphone and the orb moves with your voice for up to 30 seconds, the same way it moves with Ada, Rowan, Mei, and Theo.
Your audio stays in this browser. It is never recorded, saved, or sent anywhere.
Questions
Good to know.
When can I start listening?
Murmur opens in early 2027 on iPhone, Android, and the web. People on the waitlist are invited first, in the order they joined, and we will email you once when your invitation is ready.
What can Murmur read?
Anything you would read on a screen: web articles, newsletters, PDFs (scanned ones too), and email threads. It leaves out what you would skip with your eyes, like menus, ads, page numbers, footnote markers, signatures, and quoted replies.
Are Ada, Rowan, Mei, and Theo real people?
No. They are synthetic voices, and none of them is a copy of a real person’s voice. We chose each one for how it reads a particular kind of writing, and you can switch voices per item or set a favourite for each source.
Does it work without a connection?
Yes. Murmur prepares your queue while you are on Wi-Fi, so you can listen underground, on a plane, or at the far end of the garden.
What happens to the things I save?
They are processed only to read them aloud to you. Your library stays yours: we never sell it, show it to advertisers, or use it to train voice models, and deleting an item removes it from our servers within 30 days.
The privacy page explains exactly what we store.
How much will it cost?
There will be a free plan with a few items a week and one paid plan for unlimited listening. Everyone who joins the waitlist gets their first three months of the paid plan free.
Waitlist
Be among the first to listen.
Leave your email and we will write once, when Murmur is ready for you. No newsletter, no sharing your address.
- 1We keep your place in the queue, in the order you joined.
- 2One email when your invitation is ready, early in 2027.
- 3Your first three months of the paid plan are on us.