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!

Just sent my first pen pal a letter. @kevin_wong1 do you mail physical letters or is it digital letters?

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 ?

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!

Aww man. I would love to try this when it's available for Android :)

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.

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!

@kevin_wong1 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 http://morph.ai can expose your service as a chatbot for you.

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.

Reminds me of PSTMRK. Downloading now...

I love getting physical mail, can't wait to try this out.

Design rocks. It's really reminds me an old times.

I love the idea and philosophy behind Slowly. Instant messaging is fine, but waiting for the letter to come it is almost so exciting as waiting for Christmas presents! Can't wait for Android version of Slowly and try it out for myself. @kevin_wong1 can I sing up somewhere for Android release notification? :)

Enjoying the app! Will there be a desktop version in the future? Would be nice to have the ability to create/view drafts in a larger view, clean up spelling/grammar, see how much I typed (make sure I typed enough for it to be worth the long wait), translate words...etc. I find myself hopping in and out of the app to construct a message and also using my laptop for typing. Thanks for creating this lovely app!

Love the logo

I'm curious as to if any inspiration was taken from my very similar project. https://www.behance.net/gallery/... Regardless, it's nice to see this idea being implemented into a real app.

I like the concept. I tried it but wasn't able to connect to anyone. I'll download again in the coming months to see if anything changed.

I'm really looking forward to the android version. Can't wait to try it out