WILDSOUND

Two smartphones displaying travel app screens with categories 'Rivers' and 'Rainforests' and images of natural landscapes, including a mountain river in South Africa.

59+ NAMED WILD PLACES.

22+ countries.

ROYALTIES TO THE SOURCE.

WILDSOUND is the only ecosound app that connects listeners to real ecosystems through source-identified soundscapes — and contributes to their protection.

Enter the Wild →

"I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding."

— John O'Donohue

A smartphone lying on a light-colored surface displaying a black-and-white image of trees in a forest with options for more info, download, and share.

RETURN TO THE SOURCE.

The attraction to rivers, rainstorms, and birdsong is older than language.

The body recognizes what modern life forgets.

Why WILDSOUND →

Inside the App

PLACE MATTERS

→ Named ecosystems across six continents.

→ Field recordings from real places.

→ Filter by mood, intensity, and environment.

→ Conservation integrated into every membership.

→ An expanding library of the living world.

How It Works →

Red circular badge with white text and a geometric logo, reading "Best App Design of the Year Award" and repeating the phrase "Flutter" around the border.
A high-fidelity soundscape player screen for Fiordland National Park, featuring a moody black and white photo of steep, misty cliffs and a rushing river in New Zealand.
Screenshot of a mobile app or webpage about Fiordland National Park in New Zealand, showing the park's location, description, and details about its flora and fauna.
A mobile app search interface for nature sounds featuring a dropdown menu for "Intentions" with options like Energizing, Relaxation, White Noise, and Ambience.
Mobile app screen showing a travel or nature photo gallery titled 'Rivers' with featured images of rivers from Italy and South Africa.

LISTENING CHANGES WHEN THE PLACE BECOMES REAL.

NAMED PLACES

Not “forest.” Not “river.” A real place with coordinates, history, pressure, and a name.

DEEP LISTENING

Not ambient wallpaper. An encounter with somewhere real.

ROYALTIES TO NATURE

Your listening leaves something behind.

An iPhone mockup showing the WILDSOUND app interface. The screen displays a high-contrast black and white photograph of a tall, narrow waterfall plunging down a rocky cliffside surrounded by dense foliage in Bouma National Heritage Park, Fiji.

SAMPLE FIELD REcordings

A misty rainforest scene with dense green foliage and tall trees, partially obscured by fog.

Monte Verde Cloud Forest →

A dense, misty forest with tall trees covered in moss and lush green ferns on the forest floor.

Bogachiel Rain Forest →

A river flowing through a dense forest with tall trees on each side, and a mountain with multiple waterfalls in the background, misty and overcast sky.

Fiordland National Park →

Every sound has a source.

Real rivers. Real rainforests. Real places.

FIELD NOTES ON LISTENING IN THE AGE OF DISTRACTION

Read Journal →

Journal
The Forest, for the Record
The Forest, for the Record

The trouble with ecological loss is that it tends to remove its own witnesses. By the time a place sounds quiet enough to alarm us, quiet may already feel normal.

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The Active Ear
The Active Ear

There is a profound difference between letting sound wash over you as a barrier to the world, and stepping into the sound as an anchor.

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Acoustic Ecology
Acoustic Ecology

The field of acoustic ecology has spent fifty years making the case that how we listen matters. WILDSOUND is, in its way, an attempt to put that case into practice.

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What Nature Sound Apps get Wrong
What Nature Sound Apps get Wrong

Nature sound apps have solved half the problem. They've made the therapeutic benefits of wild places accessible to people who live far from them. That's not nothing. The other half (the part that asks where those places are, what's happening to them, and whether our listening leaves anything behind) remains almost entirely unaddressed.

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