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Taupe

TAUPE BY LUFF

Available on the App Store

Keep a thought with its source.

You heard something on a podcast worth remembering. A week later, it’s gone. Taupe searches the transcripts you’ve saved, takes you back to the passage, and keeps your thought right beside it.

Get Taupe on the App Store Open your library See how it works
  • Free, with nothing locked
  • No ads from us
  • No account needed
Taupe native welcome screen: the mole in headphones among six sample show covers, “Welcome to Taupe”, “Listen, save moments, and search your transcripts.”, and Get Started.

Listen. Find. Keep.

  1. Taupe native development player preview with Shorelines sample artwork, playback controls, and Capture thought.

    Listen to the shows you choose.

    Follow podcasts, download episodes, and listen without anything added by us. When a line lands, capture the thought while it’s fresh.

  2. Taupe native development preview showing a saved transcript passage matching Paris and its unverified audio-time disclosure.

    Find the words you remember.

    Search across the transcripts saved in your library. Read the matching passage and open the episode it came from.

  3. Taupe native development preview showing a personal note, original quotation, and exact saved passage with approximate audio time.

    Keep it beside the source.

    Write your note next to the exact quote. Taupe shows whether an audio time is exact or approximate, so you always know what you’re looking at.

Search covers transcripts you’ve saved, not every podcast. Use publisher transcripts, import your own, or prepare one with on-device speech recognition where supported. Screens are a development preview with sample content; final release visuals may change.

THE WEB COMPANION

Your shows, in any browser.

taupe.luff.works is Taupe on the web. Bring your shows from any podcast app with an OPML file, or look around a sample library. No account, and nothing is uploaded.

Open your library

Taupe is the first LUFF app to connect through Toolsperson Relay: small apps that work together, with you approving every connection. About Toolsperson Relay

Connect your iPhone, safely.

  1. Make a six-character pairing code in Taupe.
  2. Enter it in your browser. Both screens show the same safety code.
  3. Approve on your phone. The browser can read your show list, and nothing more.

Connection content between your phone and your browser is sealed. The relay in the middle only passes along what it can’t read. Keep Taupe open and online while connected; pairing needs the Taupe app, now in beta.

Made to stay yours.

Your library starts on your device.

Shows, episodes, transcripts and notes live with you. Audio downloads stay on the device where you downloaded them.

Sync through your own folder.

Want your library on another device? Point Taupe at a folder you already sync. No LUFF account in between.

Nothing in your ears from us.

LUFF doesn’t insert ads into your listening. Publisher audio may still contain its own advertising.

Free, for real.

Every feature is free. No trial, no subscription, nothing waiting behind a paywall.

SUPPORT TAUPE

Taupe is free. Help keep it that way.

No ads, no subscription, no locked features. Taupe runs on the people who like it. Here’s how to help, today and at 1.0.

Test the web connection.

It’s brand new. Pair your phone, poke around, and tell us what broke or felt off.

Send a report

Try Taupe before 1.0.

Write to us if you’d like to try the iPhone beta and tell us what you think.

Ask for an invite

Suggest what’s next.

Tell us what would make Taupe better. Suggestions are free, and you can be thanked by name if yours ships.

Suggest a feature

Tell a friend who listens.

The kindest thing you can do for a small app: share it with someone who loves podcasts.

Share Taupe

At 1.0, you’ll also find an optional support purchase in the app. Each one is separate and can be repeated. It doesn’t unlock anything or start a subscription. It simply keeps Taupe going.

A few useful details.

When can I get Taupe?

Taupe is available on the App Store. The web companion is also open to everyone.

Is it really free?

Yes. Every feature is free to use. The optional support purchase at 1.0 doesn’t unlock anything and isn’t a subscription.

Does Taupe have every podcast transcript?

No. Search works with transcripts saved in your library. Publisher coverage varies, and not every transcript has verified audio timing.

What can the web companion do?

Keep a show list in your browser, imported from OPML, or connect to Taupe on your phone to browse your followed shows after you approve it there. Listening and transcript search stay in the app. The connection needs Taupe open and online.

What about privacy?

Your library starts locally. Following shows contacts publisher hosts, directory search contacts Apple, and optional connections have their own data handling. Read the privacy policy for those details.