Never Lose Touch
With What Matters
For friendships stretched by distance. StayClose keeps what matters about the people you love—one line when you learn something, plus the birthdays and dates your phone already knows—and brings it back in time to act, so you never find out on Facebook.
Maya has a baby on the way
she was nervous about the name
The news, plus the note you wrote when you first heard it.
Free when it launches. Built by one person who moved away from his friends.
People You Care About Become Strangers You Used to Know
It isn't a character flaw. It's distance.
The friends who live down the road are fine. It's the ones who moved that slip quietly—a few months at a time, until you're catching up instead of keeping up.
Friends Scatter
Someone takes a job three states away. Someone has a baby. Someone's life stage stops lining up with yours. Nobody meant to drift.
You Find Out on the Feed
A birth, a move, a new job—and you learn it from a post that went up weeks ago. One tester put it exactly: “I should have known that.”
The Catch-Up Call Becomes a Recap
You spend the first twenty minutes rebuilding what you missed. You're always reconstructing the relationship instead of continuing it.
Your Calendar Knows the Date, Not the Person
It can tell you it's their birthday on Thursday. It can't tell you they were nervous about the baby's name.
You hear it first, from your own memory
You learn something about someone you love. It takes one line to keep—sometimes none. StayClose holds it and hands it back in time to say something—so you're the one who reaches out first, from your own memory instead of a feed.
That's it. That's the app.
What It Does, and What It Won't
Three things StayClose is being built to do, and three it will never do to you.
What we're building
StayClose is not finished. This is the shape of it.
Capture in One Line, or None
Type “Maya — baby due in March” and you're done — one line, one date, one person. Often there's nothing to type at all: birthdays fill in from your contacts, calendar events import with a tap, and you can tell Siri or share straight from another app. Keeping capture nearly free is the design — the version before this one asked for a lot more, and our one tester stopped using it.
It Comes Back in Time to Act
When March gets close, StayClose tells you. The notification carries the news, the note you wrote when you heard it, and a button that drops you straight into Messages—never an instruction to go be a better friend.
Made for Distance
If you see someone every week, this has no job to do for you, and we would rather say so than sell you something. StayClose is for the friends who moved.
What it will never do
These are not roadmap items. They are the reason it exists.
No Scores. No Streaks. No “Overdue.”
We will never grade your friends. Nothing in the app can go down, because there is no number to keep up—so there is no number to fail.
Quiet by Design
Some weeks nothing is happening and StayClose says nothing at all. It will never manufacture news to get you to open it.
Private and Free
We never see what you write about your friends: there's no server of ours it passes through. v1 will be free, with no ads.
It's being built by one person, out loud. Tell me what's missing and it shapes what comes next.
Get notified when it launchesOne Line In, One Reminder Out
That's the loop—and often the line writes itself, from the birthdays and dates your phone already knows. Here it is end to end:
The part that matters happens outside the app, in a message you send to someone you love.
You Learn Something
Maya's expecting. Dave moves in April. You write one line and give it a date—typed, told to Siri, or shared from another app. Birthdays fill themselves in, calendar events import with a tap—so often your part is nothing at all.
StayClose Holds It
It sits there with its date. Nothing counts down, nothing turns red, nothing asks you to come back. You get to forget about it—that is the point.
It Tells You in Time
A notification arrives before the date, carrying the news and the note you wrote. No advice, no nudge to do better—just the fact, with a button that takes you straight to Messages.
You Reach Out First
You text them or you call them. Tap Message on the notification and you're already there—the conversation happens in Messages or on the phone, not in here. StayClose has done its job by then.
What StayClose Refuses to Do
No streaks. No completeness bars. No showing you what you missed while you were gone. No grading the people you love. If something in here could ever make you feel behind, it doesn't ship.
I Moved Away, and I Didn’t Want to Lose Anyone
We moved. Not far enough to be dramatic—far enough that seeing anyone took planning. What I wanted was simple: to still be close to the friends I left.
What happened is what happens to everyone. Months go by. You hear things late, from a post, and the next call starts with catching up instead of just talking.
So I started building the smallest thing that would fix it: write down one line when you learn something, and get told about it in time to say something.
StayClose only has to do one thing—tell me about the people I love before the internet does.
“Your calendar knows it’s their birthday. It doesn’t know they moved last month and don’t know anyone yet.”
Facts, Not Grades
Everything StayClose stores about a person is something they would recognize as true. “Baby due in March” passes that test. A rating of how good a friend they are does not.
Non-Judgmental
No shame, no guilt trips, no “you haven’t talked to Sarah in 94 days.” Coming back after six quiet months looks exactly like coming back after one.
Privacy-First
What you write about your friends is yours—we never see it, and there’s no server of ours it passes through. We never sell or share it, and we never ask you to make any of it public.
Human-Centered
The app’s job ends the moment you pick up the phone. Everything good happens in the conversation, not in here.
Built by One Person, Out Loud
That’s the honest version: no team, no funding, no launch date. It ships when it’s good, and it’ll be free.
Griffin Anderson
Founder & Developer
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