Text flattens everything into the same grey bubble. HarkLo keeps the voice — yours, and theirs. While a friend listens to your memo, it records their reactions and pins each one to the moment it happened.
Coming to the App Store, with Android to follow.
How it works
A memo goes out, a friend listens, and what comes back is more than a thumbs up — it's their actual voice, at the exact second it happened.
Record a voice or video memo — as long as it needs to be. Every memo is transcribed, so anyone can read it instead when they can't listen.
When a friend opens your memo, HarkLo offers to listen along with the mic on. Laughs, questions, the sharp intake of breath — all of it is kept.
Flag a moment to come back to. Hold a longer thought and the original pauses for it. Or stop and type. Each reaction stays attached to its second in the audio.
What's inside
A phone call needs you both free at the same minute. Texting asks you to flatten yourself into a sentence. HarkLo keeps the voice and lets the timing stretch.
Leave a memo at midnight, hear back over their coffee. Nobody has to be free at the same minute for the conversation to keep moving.
The mic runs during playback, so the laugh, the groan and the "wait, what?" are caught as they happen — not typed out afterwards once the feeling has passed.
Every reaction keeps its timestamp on the original audio. You hear exactly which sentence set them off, and can jump straight back to it.
Every memo is transcribed automatically, so you can read one in a quiet room, skim a long ramble, or search for what someone said months ago.
Replies hang off the memo that started them, so a single memo can hold several conversations at once. When a rabbit hole goes deep enough to deserve its own room, promote the thread and it becomes a conversation of its own.
HarkLo is in a closed beta on iPhone, and the Android version is on its way. Send a note and we'll add you to the list.
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