Zipladin is a mobile gallery app that makes it super easy to record voice into photos - embedded permanently in the image file itself. Tap any photo, record audio of any length, and it stays forever. Back up your voice photos to your computer to preserve them. Most gallery apps just organize. Most voice apps store audio separately. Zipladin embeds your voice into the image permanently. Export as video to share. Free, no ads, no subscription.
Embedding audio directly in the image file is clever. So many travel memories lose context over time, and a voice note captures way more emotion than a caption. How does the audio embedding work technically? Is it stored in EXIF metadata, or a custom container?
This is lovely! When I was creative director, I remember having to take photos and make separate voice recordings of changes I'd want to later apply, edits I wanted my team to make, etc. This would have made my life so much easier!
A search/transcription to easily find photos by speech would be perfect. That way users can also search for photos by what they remember saying, or feeling. Congrats on the launch
this turns simple pictures into little memory capsules. Hearing laughter or background sounds later would hit differently.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
Thanks for checking out Zipladin. I'm Patrick, the solo developer behind this.
Quick backstory: I built this after visiting Istanbul and realizing all my photos of Hagia Sophia were beautiful but silent - I'd forgotten what I was thinking and feeling in those moments. That regret inspired me to create an app where your voice stays with your photos forever.
What makes it different: The audio doesn't live in a separate database or cloud - it's embedded directly into the photo file itself. Even if you delete Zipladin, your voice stays with the image.
I'd love your feedback on:
What features would make this more useful?
Should I add search/transcription so you can find photos by what you said?
Any other use cases I'm missing?
It's completely free, no ads, no subscription. Just wanted to solve this problem for myself and figured others might want it too.
Happy to answer any questions!
The Istanbul backstory gets it exactly right — travel photos are great at capturing what something looked like, and terrible at capturing what you were thinking or feeling at the time. The detail that kills me is "I'd forgotten." Embedding in the file itself rather than a separate database is the right architectural call: the memory stays with the image no matter what happens to the app. Does it work retroactively on photos you've already taken, or is it capture-forward only?
About Zipladin on Product Hunt
“Your travel photos with voice memories”
Zipladin launched on Product Hunt on February 26th, 2026 and earned 84 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #20 on the daily leaderboard. Zipladin is a mobile gallery app that makes it super easy to record voice into photos - embedded permanently in the image file itself. Tap any photo, record audio of any length, and it stays forever. Back up your voice photos to your computer to preserve them. Most gallery apps just organize. Most voice apps store audio separately. Zipladin embeds your voice into the image permanently. Export as video to share. Free, no ads, no subscription.
Zipladin was featured in Android (57.1k followers), Travel (42.1k followers), Photography (142.7k followers) and Photo & Video (1.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 62k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Zipladin?
Zipladin was hunted by BigO Daddy. 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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Embedding audio directly in the image file is clever. So many travel memories lose context over time, and a voice note captures way more emotion than a caption. How does the audio embedding work technically? Is it stored in EXIF metadata, or a custom container?