Near
Wordless presence. Leave it on, let it fade, and ask for nothing back.
Someone comes to mind.
Give that thought somewhere to go.
Leave a Light, send a line, or make a Postcard for one person you trust. Their answer can come back just as simply. No feed, score, or last seen.
For iPhone and Apple Watch.
Send. Feel. Return.
A small act can come back as a Light.
Choose the person. Send something small. Near keeps the moment one-to-one, and when they tap back, you feel their Light return.
You send a line. They tap back. Their Light comes back — wordless, brief.
An ordinary afternoon, a small “thinking of you,” or a hard night. The moment can end here. No read receipt, no last seen, no pressure to keep talking.
A few ways to show up Light Line Postcard
Not every thought needs to become a conversation.
Near gives one relationship a place for the kind of small thing that is easy to mean and awkward to send in a normal chat.
A few direct words in the moment, chosen or written by you.
A photo, voice, and words can arrive as one deliberate keepsake instead of another attachment.
Their answer can be this small.
Before they install Near
A Light can arrive before Near does.
Send a Light to someone who does not have Near yet and, on a supported iPhone, they can open the bounded Light experience as an App Clip first. Installing the full app is optional; the Light itself is already the moment.
No bond or reply is created inside the App Clip. It is one deliberate Light, then a choice to stop or continue.
On Apple Watch
Reach without opening your phone.
Choose a line from your wrist. Their answer can return there too, keeping the act close without turning it into a conversation you have to manage.
Private by design · No company servers
Only what you choose moves between people.
Near is engineered without company servers. Your own private material stays in your Apple ecosystem, and deliberate reaches travel through Apple's private iCloud infrastructure to the person you chose.
Your iPhone & Watch
The one person you reach
Zero Near company servers in between · No advertising or third-party tracking
No Near account
No company account, password, social graph, advertising profile, or general Near backend is required for the core.
Your Hold is yours
Your private Hold continuity can sync across your own Apple devices. Near never turns it into ambient relationship data.
No ranking people
No closeness score, last active, response-time pressure, mood map, or hidden relationship priority.
Privacy stays free
Reaching, receiving, relationship capacity, your own records, privacy, and safety are not Supporter upsells.
No feed, location map, mood score, streak, company analytics, or automatic sharing from Hold.
Read the privacy boundary And when words are hard
The same space is already there.
You do not have to explain everything. Leave a Light. Choose one line. Tap back. The moment can end there, without a read receipt or a conversation debt.
Stay near me. I'm here.
Hold
Keep what helps, privately.
Hold keeps today's page, Comfort, your notes, and earlier entries together. Nothing leaves automatically. A selected photo can become the start of a Postcard, but you choose the person and review the act before anything is shared.
Explore Hold
Atmosphere and craft
Make Near feel like a place you want to return to.
Choose the room Near opens into. Supporter adds more atmosphere, paper, ink, hand, and crafted convenience without changing who you can reach or what belongs to you.
About Near Supporter
Quiet words from Near
A word you might send.
