Near
The heart of Near is free — and it stays that way.
Everything that lets people reach one another, answer, keep what matters, and stay private costs nothing. Supporter adds atmosphere, craft, and a few configured conveniences for people who want to help keep Near independent.
More room to make Near your own.
Make the room yours
- The whole watercolor gallery — choose a Scene, pin a favorite, or let Near rotate through the ones you have.
- A quieter alternate app icon for your Home Screen.
- Supported Scenes that follow the light quietly from dawn to night, calculated on-device.
Live solar schedule for your location
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Still Water -
Open Sky -
Soft Rain -
First Light -
Ridgeline -
Garden Path -
Soft Glow -
Rose Mist -
Blue Hour
Hold what mattered beautifully
- The Paint Box: mix washes on the paper, pull color locally from a photo you choose, and keep your own palette for supported pages and sends.
Write in your own hand
- Additional paper, ink, and writing typeface choices for the private writing surfaces that support stationery.
Send in richer color
- Use the Supporter craft the current app makes available around a send, without changing its urgency, delivery, or what the other person must pay.
Where the current shipping build supports it, Supporter also adds concurrent multi-device Reach sending as an extra convenience around the same complete free path.
Care stays complete. Supporter adds presentation and convenience around it, never access to another person.
Words, keepsakes, and quiet presence — each stays free at heart.
Lines, Postcards, and Warmth are three different ways of reaching someone, not tiers of the same feature. Each one's free, complete form is how most reaches happen. Supporter only adds presentation on top — never a second way to be heard.
Free: fast, clean typography on paper, with need lines that stay unadorned on purpose.
Supporter: Paint Box washes — mixed watercolor and personal palettes behind your words.
Free: a clean text or photo card, complete on its own, with zero response debt.
Supporter: Dune Deckle, Sage Botanic, and Dusk Mineral paper and postmark recipes.
Free: an asynchronous text or voice note, waiting on baseline paper until they're ready.
Supporter: a sealed envelope and wax-seal reveal, in the same recipes as Postcards.
Whatever paper or wash a Supporter chooses travels with what they send — the person receiving it sees exactly that, with no lock, badge, or upsell, whether or not they support Near themselves.
Built natively for Apple. Kept with care.
Near is built with Apple-native frameworks and a deliberately small privacy footprint. Support helps fund the quiet maintenance behind that work as the platform changes.
No advertising profile
Near does not fund itself by selling attention, relationship data, or a behavioral profile of the people using it.
Native doors, never dashboards
Apple-system surfaces are designed as deliberate doors back to Near, without last-seen, mood, availability, or relationship scoring.
Maintained as Apple changes
Support helps fund the ongoing platform, accessibility, privacy, and compatibility work that keeps a small native app dependable.
Keep the light on.
Near has no advertising business behind it. Supporter is a way to pay for additional craft while helping keep the free heart of Near available.
Paying never makes a reach more important, another person more available, or your private life more visible. It only changes the extra atmosphere, craft, and convenience on your side.
Choose the cadence that feels right.
The App Store handles purchases and subscription management. Near does not make automatic renewal the price of being a Supporter; the one-payment year appears here only when that product and a compatible app version are actually available.
Everything that lets people stay near.
- Reaching for someone deliberately, and receiving what they deliberately send back.
- Your valid one-to-one connections — relationship capacity is not a Supporter gate.
- Core replies, Lights, history, and the complete relationship path Near defines as free.
- In Hold: your private writing, captures, check-ins, keeping, and rereading.
- Core privacy, deletion, revocation, and data ownership.
- No ads. No relationship score. No activity rank. No payer status shown to another person.
If you never become a Supporter, Near's core promise remains complete.