Dawners is an audio broadcast that follows the sunrise around the Earth. Each dawn carries one true story — a real person who suffered deeply in their own life and rose from it — told by a narrator named Solomon.
Every story is true, drawn from sources that are in the public domain. The voice you hear is generated by AI. Dawners is not affiliated with the people whose lives it tells, nor with their families or estates — their stories are shared with care, and with respect for what they lived.
Dawners is a broadcast, not a recording. You don’t start it — you join it, wherever it happens to be when you arrive. And you can leave it whenever you like: there is a “Leave the dawn” button while it plays. The dawn carries on without you, as it does for everyone else still listening — so if you come back, you rejoin it where the light has reached by then, not where you stepped away.
To find your sunrise, Dawners asks for one thing: your location. Nothing else — no email, no account, no name.
Your location stays in your own browser, where it is used to work out the moment the sun rises where you are. It is not sent to us, sold, or shared with anyone.
If you tick “Remember my location on this device,” your coordinates are saved only on your device, so we don’t have to ask you again. Untick the box at any time and they are erased. Either way, nothing about where you are ever leaves your device.
There is a small “Leave a word” button in the corner of the screen. Tap it to write to us — and tap it again to close it. We read every message. If we write back, you’ll find our reply in that same little panel the next time you open it. No email, no account, nothing else needed.
Dawners is in public beta. While the library of recordings is still growing, the daily broadcast rotates through the recordings we have — so the dawn you join may be one you have heard before — until there are enough for a fresh telling every day.
During this stage we also keep a simple, anonymous daily tally: a count of how many devices open Dawners each day — just a number, with no id, no name, and never your location — so we can see how many people we are reaching.
© 2026 Dawners. All rights reserved. The source material is in the public domain; the narration, music, and sound are generated for Dawners and may not be copied, redistributed, or reused without permission.