A motet: many voices, one piece.

Many voices.
One thing worth hearing.

Motet turns the content you already trust — newsletters, bookmarks, threads — into an interactive podcast you listen to on the go. When a story catches you, just ask, and it goes deeper.

Just a waitlist for now. We’ll write when there’s a place for you.

How it works →

  • Content you trust
  • Interactive: just ask
  • Made for on the go
Newsletters Bookmarks Longreads Threads One podcast
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Now playing · Saturday’s episode · 9 sources · 31 min

Four sources you trust, sung as one podcast.

How it works

Three movements, one walk.

No new app to read, no inbox to clear. The sources you already chose become something you can take out the door — and talk to.

  1. Bring the content you trust.

    Start with the newsletters you already read. Bookmarks and threads join them next. Trust comes from you having picked them.

  2. Listen on the go.

    Motet sings them as one episode for a walk, a commute or the dishes. When three sources cover the same story, you hear it once.

  3. Just ask.

    When a story catches you, say so out loud. Motet goes deeper on it, then picks the episode back up where it left off.

The idea

Why motet.

A motet is a choral form in which several texts are sung at once and resolve into one coherent piece.

Motet does the same with the newsletters, bookmarks and threads you chose to follow: many voices you already trust, sung together into one podcast you take with you. Short, declarative, and yours to interrupt.

EpisodeTuesday · 22 min

Tuesday, twenty-two minutes.

Three newsletters and a bookmark you trust covered the same funding round. Motet tells it once, on your walk, in a few sentences. — you: tell me more about that. It goes deeper on the round, then picks the episode back up.

  • Newsletter
  • Bookmark
  • Just ask · go deeper

The waitlist

Be among the first to hear it.

Motet is being tuned with a small group of listeners. Leave your email and we’ll write when there’s a place for you.

One email when it’s your turn. Nothing else.