Tide turns voice memos into layered sound sketches. Takes stack onto one tape — hum a bassline, beatbox over it, sing the hook. The waveform paints itself as you record. Scrub like vinyl, loop the good part, send it to Choppa or your DAW. No subs, no cloud. Launch month — 50% off until the end of July!
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Tide started from a small irritation: every voice memo app treats an idea like it's finished — one take, one file, a list of gray rows. But ideas don't arrive finished. They arrive in layers. You hum the bass, then you hear the harmony, then there's a beat you have to tap out RIGHT NOW before it's gone.
So Tide is one tape you keep layering onto. Press record, sing. Press record again, hum over it. Every pass adds to the last — destructively, on purpose. No undo. No track list. Commitment is the feature: it keeps you moving forward instead of mixing.
While you record, the waveform paints itself — watercolor strokes, a grass meadow that sways in the wind, little ships that fly around your sound. The visual isn't decoration; it's how you find the moment again. Scrub it like vinyl. Drop loop points. Pin a take to a color.
There's an XY pad that places your voice in space WHILE you record — distance and pan baked into the tape, like leaning away from the mic.
When the sketch is real, ship it: WAV export, or straight into Choppa (our sampler) to chop it into something else.
$12.99 once. No subscription, no account, no cloud — your audio never leaves the device.
It's for the shower-singers, the steering-wheel drummers, the people with 400 voice memos named "New Recording 47." I'd love to know what you make with it — and what feels missing.
Most voice memo apps feel like storage. This feels like a sketchbook. Really interesting approach. Wishing you a great launch!
The “400 voice memos named New Recording 47” line is too real. Layering ideas onto one tape feels much closer to how music ideas actually happen. Curious if you plan to add a way to duplicate a tape before committing to a new layer?
Congrats on the launch! The idea of layering recordings onto a single evolving tape is a refreshing alternative to traditional voice memo apps.
About Tide on Product Hunt
“Layered voice notes that paint themselves”
Tide launched on Product Hunt on June 12th, 2026 and earned 99 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Tide turns voice memos into layered sound sketches. Takes stack onto one tape — hum a bassline, beatbox over it, sing the hook. The waveform paints itself as you record. Scrub like vinyl, loop the good part, send it to Choppa or your DAW. No subs, no cloud. Launch month — 50% off until the end of July!
Tide was featured in Music (53.4k followers), User Experience (365.9k followers) and Audio (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 44k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Tide?
Tide was hunted by Elijah Lucian. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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