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SLOWLY - Make pen pals from your smartphone

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Available today, the new pen pal app ‘SLOWLY’ lets users write and receive letters from anywhere in the world. In the era of instant messaging, we hope to provide a platform and connect users who want to share their passion at a slower, but better pace – one letter at a time.

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Hello Hunters! Available today, the new pen pal app ‘SLOWLY’ lets users write and receive letters from anywhere in the world. In the era of instant messaging, we hope to provide a platform and connect users who want to share their passion at a slower, but better pace – one letter at a time. Please enjoy!
Love the app! Well designed, beautifully eloquent. Could I write about it for my site? ()? Despite that, I really do agree with the idea of slow communication. In this fast paced world it's extremely nice to be able to just slow down... and make conversations worth it again. Also: You may want to touch this up ;) :
Maker
Thanks for the screen cap ! I am working on a minor version upgrade hopefully releasing in a day, please stay tuned! And yes, please feel free to review and share, it's my pleasure!
did you do the design work?
Maker
Hi Zev, yes.
Diverse avatars perhaps?
Just sent my first pen pal a letter. do you mail physical letters or is it digital letters?
Maker
Just digital letters atm, but it is an interesting idea to send physical as well 👍
you could always ask your pen pal if he'd be up for switching to physical letters :)
Maker
when I was skimming the synopsis, I briefly thought this will send an actual physical letter. That actually would've been really sweet. I haven't received a personal physical mail from anyone in decades. :(

I love Slowly, been obsessed with it for the past couple of weeks since I discovered it in the Play Store. A great experience overall but here are my issues:

(1) even though most users seem to be eager to have a deeper conversation, some of them just type "hey, do you wanna be friends?" which is pretty annoying. The app even warns the user if they try to send a very short letter but I think that maybe it should not be allowed at all.

(2) there's an option in auto-match to only message users that have been online in the past few days. That's great for the ones sending the letters but I get so many letters per day that I get overwhelmed and can't reply to all of them the way I should. For that reason I turned auto-match off but that's not ideal because I like it. I wish there was a way to set an auto-match acceptance limit, like "1 per day" and same for letters from people you haven't written with yet.

(3) very small selection of avatars. I keep confusing some of my penpals for each other because they have the same avatar and write similarly/come from the same country. I think it wouldn't be an issue if there were more avatars to choose from (I love the fact you cannot use a photo though)

(4) I wish I could preview exactly what my profile looks like to others. Small thing but still :)

I can't think of anything else at the moment.

Let me repeat that I LOVE THIS APP, I just think it could be even better ⭐

Pros:

engaging, fantastic UI, cute illustrations, generally positive community, rewarding experience

Cons:

can't see exactly what your profile looks like to other users, no limit on how many letters /day from strangers you can accept, few avatars

This is really cool. Can I feature on neuestore.com ?
Maker
Please do! It's my pleasure 🙏
Such a lovely idea. Now I just have to wait two days and hope my pen pal in Australia will reply :) Congrats to Kevin for building such a great app!
Maker
Thank you very much! Almost cried when reading your comment. ; )
The design is phenomenal! It's a rally cool idea too. I see that it'll be available for Android soon, can't wait to try it.
Maker
Thank you! I will let you know when android is ready :)
I've long regretted not keeping in touch with pen pals, as the art of letter-writing and slow thought has been fading in recent years. You've wonderfully captured the joyful moments of having a pen pal in these features; letters taking longer to arrive based on their location is really clever!
Maker
Thanks Steve!
Very interesting. I was wondering about creating something similar 2 days ago. I visioned it in terms of a chatbot, right there in Facebook messenger. No need to download any application, letters will be delivered on Facebook messenger itself. We at can expose your service as a chatbot for you.
Maker
chatbot idea is quite interesting, but the message delivery can be delayed?
It sure can be delayed. Can you send an email to ? We can talk the specifics there.
Clean, well designed app! I've signed up and started writing letters. Some feedback: the editor screen doesn't scroll so I can't really write beyond a short paragraph.
Maker
Thanks for the positive feedback Angelo! Wish you enjoy chatting with others! I will take a closer look about the editor problem👌🏼 May I know your iOS version? thanks!
I'm on the 10.3 Developer beta using an iPhone 6S
Same problem here. I'm using it on an iPad 4 running iOS 10.3 beta 1.
Maker
Upgrading to ver 1.0.1 should fix the scrolling problem, please give it a try, thank you!
Reminds me of . Downloading now...
Maker
Wish you enjoy the slower pace to talk 😎
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