Just Talk. YourPond Does the Rest.
You just left a dinner party. You met four new people. You remember most of the details right now... but you won't by Thursday.
Their names. Where they live. What they do. That one of them is married to your coworker's college roommate. That another one is gluten-free and has a corgi named Biscuit.
You could open your contacts app and start filling out fields. First name. Last name. Company. City. But you won't. Nobody does. That's why your contact book has been empty since 2008.
So we built something different.
Just talk
Open YourPond on your iPhone. Tap the mic. And just... talk.
"Met Mira Patel at a meet-up. She's a product designer at Figma, lives in Chicago, has a corgi named Biscuit, gluten-free, birthday's March 14. She is married to Brad."
That's it. YourPond listens, extracts everything, and turns it into a structured contact. Name, job title, company, city, birthday, pet, dietary preference, spouse. All organized. All searchable. All connected to the rest of your contact book.
You review everything before it saves. Nothing happens without your approval.
How it works
Voice input on iOS uses the same engine behind YourPond's "Describe Your People" feature that's been available on web since launch. The difference is now you don't have to type anything. You just talk into your phone.
Here's what happens under the hood:
Your voice gets transcribed on-device by iOS. The transcribed text gets sent to YourPond's parser, which extracts names, locations, jobs, relationships, birthdays, preferences, pets... everything it can find in what you said. You see a preview of everything that was extracted. You edit anything that's wrong, uncheck anything you don't want, and confirm.
The raw text you spoke is not stored. Only the structured data you approve gets saved to your account. The parsing runs through Anthropic's API, which auto-deletes the input and doesn't train on it.
When it's useful
The obvious one is after meeting someone new. But voice input is handy in a lot of situations you wouldn't expect:
After a phone call. You just caught up with an old friend and they told you they moved to Austin, started a new job, and their kid started kindergarten. Instead of trying to remember all that later... just talk into YourPond while it's fresh.
Walking home from somewhere. You ran into your neighbor and found out their daughter is getting married in October. Tap the mic, say it, done.
Batch catching up. You haven't updated your contacts in a while. Sit on the couch, open YourPond, and just start talking about the people in your life. "My friend Jake lives in Denver now, works at Google, married to Priya, they have a dog named Mango." Next person. "My cousin Leila just moved to New York, she's starting law school at Columbia in the fall." Keep going. You can add 10 people in a few minutes without typing a single character.
At events and conferences. You met a bunch of people and you're standing outside waiting for your Uber. Talk into your phone for 60 seconds. By the time you get home, everyone is in your contact book with structured details.
You can still type
Voice input doesn't replace the text-based "Describe Your People" flow. That's still there on both iOS and web. Some people prefer typing... especially when they're adding people from memory and want to think through what they write. Voice is just another way in.
Both methods use the same parser. Same extraction quality. Same review flow. Same privacy model.
The friction problem
The reason nobody's contact book is up to date is because updating it is tedious. Every contact app in the world asks you to fill out fields. First name. Last name. Phone. Email. Company. Address. One field at a time. One contact at a time.
Nobody does that for 150 people. So your contact book stays empty, or it stays frozen in 2018 when you last bothered to update it.
Voice input fixes this by matching the way you actually think about people. You don't think in fields. You think in stories. "I met Mira at that meetup, she works at Figma, lives in Chicago, married to Brad." That's how your brain stores it. Now your contact book can take it the same way.
Try it
Voice input is available now in the YourPond iOS app. Open the app, tap Add, tap the mic icon, and start talking.
On web, you can use the text-based "Describe Your People" feature at yourpond.io.
Free for up to 25 contacts. Pro is $14.99/month or $119.99/year for unlimited.
Your contact book has been waiting for you to talk to it. It's finally ready to listen.
Emily Hyeamang is the founder of YourPond and LilyPadLabs, based in Chicago.