LDR
An app for two people who are far apart, built for a relationship that spans eight time zones and an unreliable connection.
What it is
Most apps for couples assume you are in the same hours as each other and that video calls are easy. LDR assumes neither. It is built so that something sent at midnight in one place arrives whole at breakfast in another, and so that nothing in it ever asks you to be available.
What is in it
- Something made and sentA photo, a video, a voice note. Small things, deliberately — the point is that one person made it for one other person.
- Something askedA question you both answer blind, revealed only once you have both written. Nothing anywhere says whether the other person has answered, so a question can never become homework.
- Something keptLetters, drawings and bouquets that arrive wrapped, and a record of the days you have been together.
- Where the other person isOptional, and never more than a word — a place they named, or a neighbourhood. Never an address, never a map, never a notification when they move.
What it will not do
It will not tell you whether they have read something, or whether they are typing, or how long they looked. It will not nudge them on your behalf. It will not count anything in order to show you a streak you are at risk of losing. Those are the easy features, and each of them turns a kindness into an obligation.
Where it is
LDR is not in the app stores. It is being used by the people it was built for, and that is the current extent of it.