Clear This Phone. A new button at the bottom of the home screen deletes everything Conductor has saved on the phone: drafts, imported packs, My Voice recordings and settings. It does not clear browser history or files you downloaded.
Navigate buttons show where they go. The coordinates are now shown next to each Navigate button, and no button is offered when an event's coordinates are not valid.
No remote stop, said plainly. The guide now says that a live phone can only be stopped on that phone, so agree a stop signal before the event.
v73 2026-11-10
Built-in robot voice for typed cues. Cue text with no recording (the cue word, "Get ready to…" heads-ups, clip lines) is now read by a robot voice that comes inside the app. It goes into the same pre-rendered track as the beeps and recordings, so typed cues should keep playing with the screen locked too. Practice, screen-on and locked all sound the same. The phone's own speech is only a fallback if the robot voice can't load. Recordings still sound much better. US English only for now; locked playback of the robot voice on iPhone is being tested now.
Fixed: the downloadable conductor.html and the "share this app" file could fail to start because of a build error. Both open properly again.
The app file is now about 2.1 MB (it was 0.8 MB), because the voice is inside it. That's still small enough to send by AirDrop or a messaging app.
v72 2026-11-10
Clearer, more careful wording about what's been tested. Locked-screen audio is marked as tested on iOS 18 (iOS 26 and longer events are being tested now); AirDrop / Quick Share hand-off is marked as not yet confirmed on every phone; privacy wording says plainly that a link is only as private as the way you send it.
Easier way to help test on iPhone: a "Help us test" link in the app's "What is this?" box, and new questions in the bug report form (system version, build, and how you opened the app).
v71 2026-10-27
Larger text no longer hides the bottom of the screen on Android (buttons and the Install voices / Manage Packs rows were off the bottom).
iPhone: confirmations (like "Start it 1 minute from now?") are now in-page, so Go Live no longer silently does nothing; Go Live and Go Back clear Safari's floating toolbar; a pasted event that iOS turned into Title:%20... is read correctly.
Start times now show their time zone (and your own time when it differs). The "Live opens at..." notice scrolls into view.
Out-of-date installed voices now offer "Update voices". The Home Screen app's separate storage is mentioned in the Session ready? card.
Trimmed the hiss at the end of some demo recordings (e.g. "Hold your position"). Re-install the demo voices to hear the fix.
"Session ready?" check before Live. One card shows your build, when the event starts on your phone's clock, whether the phone's clock is in sync, which recordings are installed, and whether you can lock the screen. Every check only warns; you can always continue.
The practice and live screens show a simple "Sound check ✓" line instead of raw diagnostics. Tap it to copy the full details for us.
v69 2026-10-20
Easier text events: one space after the time is enough (0:30 Wave left). Two spaces or a tab still work.
v68 2026-10-20
Clock check. Everyone's phone follows its own clock. If yours is 5 or more seconds off, the event preview tells you to turn on automatic date & time.
One-tap demo voices. The demo offers to install its recorded voices (about 150 KB), so even the demo works with your screen locked.
Clearer note when an event's recordings aren't on your phone. The count now matches between preview and practice.
"Sound not working?" on the home screen now opens the friendly phone check, not the developer diagnostics.
Link previews show a proper card on social media, every page has an icon, and the help page fits small screens. The rating stars are easier to tap.
v67 2026-10-20
iPhone fix: text events written like Start: 2026-03-15 2:00 PM (the format the guides use) failed to load in Safari. They now work everywhere.
Refreshed guides covering cues vs clips, repeating events, the Go Live window and time zones. This page is new too.
v66 2026-10-20
Go Live opens 20 minutes before the first cue. Before that, the app tells you when Live opens and suggests Practice. Going live hours early drained batteries and built a huge mostly-silent audio track.
Time zones in text events now work.Start: 2026-11-15T19:00 with Timezone: America/New_York means 7 PM in New York, wherever the phone is.
The editor no longer lands an event a month off when its date crosses a month boundary in another time zone.
[no-countdown] steps are now truly silent, even when the event has countdowns turned on.
Random takes (randomCues) now really pick at random, and the pocket track and the screen play the same take.
Links shared from a downloaded copy of the app now point at the public site instead of a broken null/ address.
Restarting a past repeating event now repeats for the right length. If the pocket audio track fails to load, the app falls back to live audio instead of hanging.
The old experimental Android app has been retired. Conductor is a web app that runs on any phone.
v65 2026-09-10
Editor: the style buttons (Normal / Emphasis / Alert) now show a caption when tapped, since phones can't show hover tips.
"My Voice (record your own cues)" sits at the top of the cue list, and "record everything at once" is clearly optional.
v63 & v64 2026-09-07
Cues and clips. Each step is either a cue (a beep, then people act or speak) or a clip (the phone itself plays a recorded clip: music, crowd murmur, a voice). Clips can be long and can overlap.
Set it for the whole event (Mode: clip) or per step ([clip] / [cue]), or use the Playback mode setting and per-step toggle in the editor.
A clip-mode demo script shows the idea.
v62 2026-08-22
Beam an event by QR code straight from the share screen, phone to phone.
The text-size control is reachable during practice and live events.
Refreshed FAQ and how-to docs, plus a public "Help from Anywhere" page for remote helpers.
v58 – v61 2026-08-18 – 19
Repeating events. Loop the whole script until a set time (RepeatUntil:), a set number of times (Repeat:), or both. Coda: adds a rest between loops.
Editor: clone a step in one tap. You're warned when two steps land too close together.
Adjustable text size for the whole app.
v53 – v57 2026-08-06 – 12
"Get ready to…" in your own voice. Record one "Get ready to" lead. The app stitches it to each cue's recording, and it plays with the phone in your pocket.
QR beam for sound packs. Send a pack to a nearby phone as a moving QR code, with no internet needed.
Packs are now small MP3s. Each demo script has its own tiny pack.
Fixed the pack file picker showing "No items" on iPhone and Android, and demo packs that wouldn't play on iPhone.
v45 – v52 2026-07-06 – 08-04
Works with the phone locked in your pocket. Going live builds the event's beeps and recorded cues into one audio track, the only kind of audio phones keep playing when the screen is locked.
Record your own cues in the editor ("My Voice") and share them as a pack.
Practice rehearses through the same pocket track as the real event.
A public Help Us Test page for checking your own phone.
Earlier
v1 – v44 2026-02 – 06
The single-file "record player" app. Events travel inside links and QR codes, with no server and no accounts.
Editor, practice mode, live mode, circular timeline, optional password encryption, sound packs, tonal countdown beeps, and phone audio diagnostics.