# Cordwork — A 1962 switchboard mystery

> A 1962 switchboard mystery (iPhone/iPad app by BEE2.IO LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cordwork/id6810454617 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [BEE2.IO LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6794688104)
- Category: Games, Adventure, Simulation
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 182 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-24
- Data updated: 2026-09-25
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cordwork/id6810454617/reviews.md

## What is Cordwork?

You are the night operator in Ashfen, Kansas, 1962.

Eleven lines run through your board. Every call in this town passes through
your hands, and every voice on them assumes you are not listening.

You are.

A sheriff asks about a ledger. A woman rings the same number every Thursday
at the same hour. A boy sees a car he was not supposed to see. None of it is
your business. All of it comes through your board.

CORDWORK is an interactive story where you never pick from a list of replies.
You work a switchboard. Four cords hang in front of you, and each one is a
different kind of answer:

CONNECT - put the call through and say nothing.
LISTEN - hold the key down, and hear what is actually said.
LEDGER - write it in the book, where it stops being a rumour and becomes a
record.
STALL - be slow on purpose, and let the line ring out.

The cord you choose IS the choice. Nothing announces that a decision is being
made. You will not always know which calls mattered until the town has
already made up its mind about a woman who has done nothing.

WHAT YOU GET

- 39 shifts across a single year in one small town, and seven endings
- A story that changes shape: what you overhear, write down, or let go of
  decides what Ashfen believes by spring
- 780 illustrations. Every scene is drawn - there is no wall of plain text
- 116 original music cues, so the score does not loop in your ear
- A night ledger you can actually read back, page by page
- Rewind: go back to an earlier decision and tell it differently
- Eight languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese,
  Japanese, Korean, German, French and Spanish

PLAYS THE WAY YOU WANT

Pages advance by themselves at a reading pace, or tap to move faster. Text
scales up for comfortable reading. Reduce Motion is respected. Your place is
kept between sessions, down to the beat you left on.

COMPLETELY OFFLINE

No account. No ads. No tracking. No data collected, ever. Cordwork runs with
the network off and never phones home.

The first eight shifts are free. A single purchase unlocks the rest - the
whole story, every ending, permanently. No subscription, and nothing else to
buy.

ONE NIGHT, AS AN EXAMPLE

It is twenty past two. Line seven lights. A woman you have connected four
hundred times asks for a number in Wichita, and her voice is wrong.

You can put her through and never know. You can hold the key down and find
out. You can write the hour in your book, where the sheriff will read it in
March. Or you can be slow, and let it ring, and let her change her mind.

Four cords. No undo button on the board itself - though you may go back and
tell a night differently, three times in a life.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY WITHOUT KNOWING YOU ARE THERE

Everyone in Ashfen is careful in the street and careless on the telephone.
That gap is the whole game. By the end you will know more about this town
than any single person in it, and you will have decided, one small silence at
a time, how much of it anybody else gets to know.

A town does not decide what it believes all at once. It decides one call at a
time, and you are on every one of them.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Full Story Unlock | $4.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-09-24

No release notes.

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