Stay Close: to your loved ones

Weeks pass. Then months. And the longer the silence goes on, the harder it feels to break — until calling an old friend needs an occasion. Stay Close is a quiet nudge to reach the people you keep meaning to reach. No feed, no likes, nobody else can see it. Just you and the handful of people who matter. SET A RHYTHM, NOT A DEADLINE Some people you want to speak to every week. Others every few months. Group them into circles — family, close friends, everyone else — and give each one its own pace. Stay Close only speaks up when someone is genuinely due. NEVER OPEN WITH JUST "HEY" Keep a line about what's going on in their life. Their mum's operation, the new job, the exam coming up. It appears right there on the reminder, so you're never starting from nothing. WATCH THE WARMTH COME BACK Everyone cools off over time. Stay Close shows it as a temperature: people you've spoken to recently glow, people slipping away quietly fade. It's the gentlest way to notice a friendship going quiet while there's still time to do something about it. No streaks. No scores. Nothing that tells you you've failed. BIRTHDAYS, WITHOUT THE PANIC Pulled in from your contacts, with a week's warning if you want one — enough time to actually plan something instead of scrambling on the day. A WIDGET THAT DOES THE WORK Put the people you're drifting from where you already look fifty times a day. Call them, or log that you spoke, without ever opening the app. BUILD YOUR LIST IN ONE SITTING Swipe through your contacts and keep the ones who matter. Nothing is ever deleted from your address book — the rest are simply set aside. CHOOSE HOW MUCH IT SPEAKS A single reminder on the last day. A few days' warning. Or a gentle nudge each day until you get through. Set the time of day once, or per person. STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-in. No server. Your people, your notes and your history never leave this device. Turn the internet off and Stay Close works exactly the same. Free to use. I built this because I kept letting people drift, and a reminders app wasn't doing it — it told me to call, but never what to say. If it helps you stay close to someone, that's the whole point.