An app for two people
Us pairs you with one person. You leave them a note of a hundred characters, no more, and it lands on their home screen. No feed, no thread, no typing dots.
Go on, write to Mira. Press send and watch their phone.
Sent. It's on their home screen.
home in twenty
2 min agoTheir home screen
That is the whole sign-up. No email, no password, nothing to confirm in another app.
One of you generates a code like K3M-9QX. The other types it in.
You are paired. From here on the widget does the work, and opening Us is optional.
Everything below is one screen deep, and it looks like it belongs on whichever phone it lands on. Switch the preview and see.
Write the one thing you wanted to say. It replaces whatever was on their home screen before it, and there is only ever one note, so there is never anything to catch up on.
there's soup on the stove
2 min agoThe medium widget, iPhone home screen
Some things are easier shown. Take one there and then, or pick one out of the roll. It becomes the widget, edge to edge, with whatever you wrote sitting on the bottom of it.
the sky, just now
A photo note, iPhone home screen
A square of paper and a real set of tools. Scribble something, and it goes out exactly the way a photo does, and the drawing becomes the widget on the other phone.
drew you a sun
A drawing, iPhone home screen
Pick the face and the colour before you send, and that is how the note is drawn on their phone too: on the widget and in the history. The mark is the other way round. You add one for the person you write to, and it sits beside their name on your widget and in your message box, on your phone and nowhere else.
thinking about you
just nowA note in Script, iPhone home screen
there's soup on the stove
2 min agoThe medium widget, iPhone home screen
End-to-end encrypted
The key is worked out on your two phones, from your private half and their public one, and it is never sent anywhere. What reaches us is a sealed envelope.
The key lives only on your phones, so nobody can restore it for you, us included.
What our server holds
An illustration of a sealed note: on our server it is unreadable ciphertext.
An account is a pair, so we asked both people. These are unedited, posted with permission, and no one was paid for them.
We tried every messenger there is and ended up owing each other replies. Now there's one line on my phone and I don't have to do anything about it.
I write mine on the walk to the station. Eight seconds, and it's the best part of the morning.
Paired 14 months
My sister is nine hours ahead. A note already sitting there when they wake up beats a missed call every time.
They left a note the morning of a hospital thing. It was waiting on my home screen before I was properly awake.
Paired 3 years
We live in the same flat. It is still the nicest thing on my phone.
They left “there's soup on the stove” on a Tuesday and I think about it more than I should.
Paired 7 months
Start free and keep the app forever. The paid plan takes the limits off: nine faces, nine inks, as many photos and drawings as you like, and the whole history rather than the last week. Whichever of you pays, both phones get it.
Everything you need to write to one person, every day, for nothing.
Free
for both of you, with no end date
No email, no password, no card.
Everything in Us, with the limits taken off. One payment covers both phones.
₹99
every three months, for the pair
Works out at ₹33 a month, charged four times a year.
Cancel from your phone, any time, in two taps.
| Feature | Us | Us Together |
|---|---|---|
| Notes, up to 100 characters each | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Faces to write in | 3 | 9 |
| Inks to write with | 3 | 9 |
| A mark beside their name, on your phone | Included in Us | Included in Us Together |
| Photos | 3 | Unlimited |
| Drawings | 3 | Unlimited |
| History | 7 days | All of it |
One charge every three months. Cancel any time from your phone. Read our privacy policy.
No. An account holds exactly one pairing, and that is the whole shape of the product. If you want to pair with someone else, you disconnect first.
No. There are no read receipts, no delivery ticks and no way to tell whether anyone has looked at their home screen. That is deliberate: a note you owe a reply to is a message, and this is not a messenger.
Yes. Take one there and then, or pick a single picture out of your library. Us never gets the library itself, only the one you chose. It is resized and sealed on your phone before it goes anywhere.
No. A note is encrypted on your phone and reaches our server as a sealed envelope. The key is worked out on both of your phones from your private key and their public one, it is never sent to us, and we hold nothing that opens what we store.
It deletes the account itself: your sessions, your devices and the shared history, everywhere, and it disconnects the person you were paired with. It asks twice, because there is no sign-in and no backup, so there is no way back into an account once it is gone.
Download it, type your name, and read six characters out loud to the person you had in mind. There is no step after that.
Free to start. No email, no password, no card.