For two people in two time zones
Until you're together.
A private space for the wait: the countdown to the day the distance ends, a question neither of you can read until you've both answered, and the small things that survive the gap.
Out now for Android. Coming soon to the App Store. Ask us to tell you when.
Free to startOne subscription covers both of youNo streaks, no feed, no ads
It's 5:38 PM in New York and 10:38 PM in London. until. shows both, all day, on every screen.
Two cities. One countdown.
What it refuses to be
- Streaks
- Chat
- A feed
- A friends list
- Location tracking
- Ads
- A relationship score
The whole idea
Long distance isn't about missing each other. It's about having nothing to share.
So until. gives you something new every day: one question neither of you has answered, one photo of an ordinary hour, one thing to make together tonight.
From two cities to one
Scroll runs the countdown.
What the wait looks like in until., from the first day apart to the day the seam closes.
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Two skies
You each choose a city. Home splits down a dotted seam: your sky on one side, theirs on the other, each at its own time of day.
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Two clocks
Both local times sit under the skies, so you know it's nearly eleven at night for them before you send anything.
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One question, sealed
One question a day. You each write an answer, and neither of you can read the other's until you've both sent one.
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Opened side by side
When the second answer lands, both open at once, next to each other. The daily photo works the same way: sealed until you've each sent one.
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Together Mode
When the countdown reaches the day and you're in the same place, the seam closes and Home becomes one sky. Afterwards it helps you set the next date.
Alex and Maya are the app's demo couple. The question, both answers and both photos are its sample content.
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01 Every morning
A question, sealed both ways.
You can't read theirs until you've written yours. It's the difference between a conversation and a status update.
The questions know where you are: tagged by how long you've been apart, how close the reunion is, and what time it is for each of you, so three days out you get reunion questions rather than “what did you eat today”.
400 questions, none repeated for over a year
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02 Every day
One photo of an ordinary hour.
Not the highlights. The kitchen at 7am, the walk home, the train window. Both photos stay sealed until you've both sent one, so nobody is performing for the other.
They land side by side, with the local time under each, which is how you find out that your morning coffee is their last thing before bed.
New York7:12 AM 
Seoul9:12 PM Sealed until you've both sent one
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03 Whenever
Press and hold. They feel how long.
No message to compose, nothing to be clever about. The longer you hold it, the longer it plays back on their phone: at 3am, in a meeting, on a bus.
A full charge is under three seconds, and there's one every three hours, so it can never turn into a score.
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04 For later
Letters for the days that need them.
Write one tonight for the day they can't sleep, or the day it all goes wrong, or their birthday. It stays sealed until that day actually arrives, and you don't get to take it back.
Open When is part of Premium. Everything you've already written stays readable whatever happens to the subscription.
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05 Always
The wait, made visible.
Not a number ticking down. How far through it you already are: 93% of the wait behind you, the last goodbye and the next hello on one line, and the miles between them.
Milestones at 30, 14, 7, 3 and 1 days replace streaks. They can't be broken, and they can't be sold back to you.
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06 Afterwards
It all stays yours.
Every answer, every photo, every letter, kept in one place that isn't a camera roll or a chat thread you'll never scroll back through.
Free keeps all of it, forever. The distance ends. The record of it doesn't.
When you're both free
Four rooms for the same evening.
Not a video call you both run out of things to say on. Things you actually do at the same moment, from two kitchens and two time zones. And every night, one thing to learn about them: a question about them that you answer as them, sealed until you've both had a turn.
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Draw together
One canvas, two colours. They watch it happen, stroke by stroke.
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Under the same sky
Put a star up. Name what the two of you are making.
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Watch together
One shared start, one position, whispers. Bring your own show.
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Cook together
Same dinner, different kitchen. Neither of you waits.
How it works
Two phones. One space. Ten minutes.
There is no profile to fill in and nobody to add. The whole setup is the two of you and a date.
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Get it on both phones
iPhone on one side and Android on the other is fine. Sign in with Apple or Google; there is no password to invent.
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Pick your two cities
Chosen, not tracked. The app never asks for your location. Both skies come alive at the real time of day at each end.
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Send one invite link
They tap it, and Home comes alive on both sides. Your space is scoped to the two of you and nobody else can be added to it.
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Set the date
The countdown starts. When you're finally in the same place, Home switches to Together Mode, and afterwards it helps you set the next one.
Privacy
Built for two people and nobody else.
This is where two people keep things they don't post anywhere else. These are structural, not a promise in a footer.
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Answers stay sealed.
Not even the other person can read yours until you have both written. The same is true of the daily photo.
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Your space is scoped to the two of you.
Nothing in it is addressable by anyone outside the pair: not a feed, not a friends list, not a discover tab.
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Nothing you write trains anything.
Answers, letters and photos are never used for advertising or to train AI models. Analytics stay off until you switch them on.
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Leaving is a real door.
Delete your account and you get 30 days to change your mind. After that your private data is erased. What you made together stays readable to the other person as an archive rather than vanishing.
Pricing
One subscription. Two people.
Free is genuinely usable. Premium is for the parts that accumulate. Whoever pays, both of you get it; your person never sees a paywall.
Free
$0forever
No trial, no card, no clock.
- Both skies, both clocks, the countdown and its milestones
- The daily question, sealed both ways
- The daily photo of an ordinary hour
- The touch, with how long you held it
- Tonight's four rooms
- One reunion planned at a time
- Every memory you make, kept forever
Nothing you made is ever locked behind a payment.
Premium
$39.99a year
That's $3.33 a month. Or $9.99 month to month.
One subscription covers both of you.
- Open When letters, sealed until the day they're for
- Our World: every city you've been in together, mapped
- Date Nights, guided for two screens
- Monthly recaps and anniversary stories, written up and worth keeping
- Countdown and lock screen widgets
- Plan further than the next reunion
- The built worlds: mini golf on the Living Isles, ten pin at the Grand Meridian
No countdown timers on the paywall, no fake discounts. Cancel in the App Store or Google Play any time.
Prices in US dollars. The App Store and Google Play show local pricing for your country.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Do we both have to pay?
No. One subscription covers the couple, not the person. Whichever of you subscribes, Premium is on for both phones, and the other never sees a paywall.
One of us has an iPhone and the other has Android.
That's fine. Everything works across the two, including the invite link, the sealed reveals and the touch.
Does it track where we are?
No. You choose your cities when you set up, and the app never asks for location permission. There is no dot on a map to watch.
Is there a chat?
No, on purpose. You already have five. until. feeds the conversation you're already having rather than competing with it.
Can we use it when we're in the same city?
Yes. When you're in the same place, Home switches to Together Mode and the countdown becomes the days you have. When one of you leaves, it becomes the wait until next time, and everything you made in between stays in your memories.
Who can see what we put in it?
Only the two of you. Nothing is public, there is no feed and no way to share outward. Questions and photos stay sealed until both of you have answered.
What happens to our things if we break up?
Either of you can end the relationship in Settings without the other's approval. Live sharing stops immediately, you each keep a read-only archive of what you made, and the two accounts can't pair with each other again. Deleting your account gives you 30 days to change your mind. How deletion works.
Are our answers and letters used for anything?
No. They are never used for advertising or to train AI models. Analytics are off until you switch them on, and even then they never include what you wrote. The full privacy policy.
The seam closes
when you do.
Start the countdown tonight.
Out now for Android. Coming soon to the App Store. Ask us to tell you when.
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