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Tether

The thread between
you is alive.

A two-person app for couples living apart. Instead of more chat, it gives each pair a slow, ritual-based emotional language — daily pulses, memory beads, delayed whispers, and a shared Starling that grows from showing up.

Tether — your living thread

What it is

Not chat. Not a calendar.
The relationship itself.

The Thread

A live thread on a 3D globe between your two cities. Five visual states — glowing, steady, stretched, frayed, knotted — reflecting the relationship right now.

Daily Pulse

A long-press inside a shared window. They feel it on the other side. Shared streaks, not personal streaks.

Memory Beads

Photo, voice, text, or milestone — strung along the thread. A timeline that belongs to both of you.

Whispers & capsules

Messages that unlock on a date, a place, an event, or after the Nth pulse. Slow letters for the long game.

Same Sky

What you both see right now — moon phase, weather, sunrise / sunset. A small daily proof you share a sky.

Your Starling

A shared mascot, born at a 30-day streak. Five evolution stages from Spark to Nova. Grows when you both show up.

Conflict & Repair

A “we need to talk” tag, a Knot marker, two-step repair prompts, and an “I need space” cooldown. So fights don’t vanish into chat.

Reunion mode

Distance ring, countdown, hype mode, a plan-together checklist, and a quiet after-meet retrospective.

Pricing

One subscription covers both.
That’s the whole point.

Free
$0
  • 1 pulse per day
  • 3 lifetime memory beads
  • 1 whisper per week
  • Basic Same Sky
  • Starling up to day 7
Monthly
$12.99 / month
  • Everything in Yearly
  • Cancel any time from your phone
  • Restore on a new device

If either partner has Premium, both partners get Premium — no overlap billing. Subscriptions auto-renew via the App Store / Google Play. Pricing may vary by region.

The design

Deep cosmos. Hushed UI.
Built to live on the lock screen.

A living thread on a night-sky canvas. No notifications you didn’t ask for, no public feeds, no public profiles. Two people. One thread.