a slow correspondence app
toiyp is an app for sincere, unhurried correspondence — an antidote to the endless scroll and the instant reply. Write letters that mean something, to people worth knowing. Let them arrive in their own time.
Web app · add to home screen on iOS & Android
why toiyp exists
We built something against the current. Against the typing indicator, the read receipt, the three-second gap that means they saw it and didn’t answer. Modern messaging made conversation cheap. We expect responses in seconds and wonder why our friendships feel hollow.
“Things worth having
are worth waiting for.”
How it works
Your handle is your correspondence address. Share it with anyone — a colleague, someone you just met, a person you’d like to know better. Not your phone number. Something quieter.
No character limits, no reply chains. Just a letter — as long as it needs to be, saying what you actually mean. Take as long as you need.
Once you seal it, it’s in flight. No editing, no unsending. The act of sealing means you mean it. The letter is on its way.
Letters travel for hours, sometimes days. When they land, they’re read with the attention they earned. Then, when ready, they reply.
What makes it different
Your address
@yourname
Give your @handle to people you’ve just met, to acquaintances, to someone whose energy you liked. It’s not your real number — it’s a correspondence address. Share it freely without giving away anything you didn’t mean to.
Considered pace
Nothing arrives instantly. Your words travel for hours or days before they reach the person you wrote them for. That distance changes how you write — and how they read. Immediacy is the enemy of sincerity.
Commitment
Once you seal a letter, it’s in flight and you cannot change it. This isn’t a limitation — it’s the point. You write knowing you’ll mean it. They read knowing you did. Commitment changes how we communicate.
Real exchange
You cannot send another letter until they’ve replied. No following up on your follow-up. No flooding. A genuine correspondence is a back-and-forth — toiyp holds you to that structure, because good conversation is turn-based.
The nudge
If your letter arrived and silence followed, you can send a nudge — a short phrase added as a postscript to your last letter. Not a new message. Not pressure. Just a gentle “I’m still here, when you’re ready.”
Tone reading
Before your letter travels, toiyp reflects its tone back to you — warm, tense, or neutral. Not to judge what you wrote. Just to let you see it clearly, once, before someone else does. A moment of reflection, built in.
The best relationships are worth a little patience. Claim your @handle and write your first letter.
Create your accountYour address becomes @yourhandle · share it like a business card, not a phone number