For journalists.

One-liner

Hearby is the first universal ambient AI in your ear. It listens to your real conversations and whispers ultra-short cues at the exact moment you need them.

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Hearby is an iOS app that turns your AirPods into a real-time conversational copilot. The user taps Listen, places AirPods in, and Hearby whispers ≤7-word cues during real conversations — bio fetches when a name drops, answer drafts when a question lands, memory recall when something familiar surfaces, tone reads when the room shifts. Speech-to-text runs entirely on-device; no other-party audio or transcript ever leaves the phone. Pricing is $20/month or $99/year. Public TestFlight opens Phase 3 of beta.

Founder quote

The asymmetry between people who win rooms and people who don’t is mostly inputs — a name remembered, a fact recalled, a moment read. Hearby puts those inputs in your ear in real time. The other person never sees it. — Hudson Hildebrand · founder

Founder bio

Hudson Hildebrand, 21, lives on the Gold Coast, Australia. Background in finance and marketing. Hearby is the second product he’s shipped this year. He also runs Hudhild, a CRO design studio for ecommerce brands. Available for interviews in EN/AU time zones.

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Launch price

$20/month · $99/year founder rate

Trial

14 days · no charge · payment method required

Beta phases

Phase 1 · 50 users · Phase 2 · 500 users · Phase 3 · 5,000 public TestFlight

Latency target

≤300ms · device → edge → ear

Privacy invariant

Other-party audio never leaves the device

Platforms

iOS 17+ · AirPods Pro · AirPods 3 · AirPods Max

Backend

Cloudflare Workers · Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 · ElevenLabs Flash v2

Pronunciation

Hearby is pronounced HEER-bee. Triple-meaning: hear-by (proximity), hereby (formal declaration), nearby (rhyme).