The app that reminds you to text your friends back.
You don’t forget your people. You forget the clock. Wavepal taps you on the shoulder at the pace you choose for each person, with everything you need to say more than “hey, long time.”
Free up to 10 people. No card.
The mental list is real.
You owe six people a text.
You know exactly who. The list lives in your head, surfaces at 11pm, and files itself away again by morning.
The drafted-in-your-head reply.
You composed a whole answer to Claire’s message while walking the dog. Your brain marked it sent. It was not sent.
Silence gets heavier over time.
After a few months, “just texting” feels like it needs an apology attached. So it waits for a perfect moment that never quite arrives.
What Wavepal actually does.
- A pace per person, decided once.
- Weekly for your best friend, monthly for your brother, quarterly for the college group chat’s quiet one. Set it once and Wavepal watches the calendar from then on.
- A nudge with context, not a bare alarm.
- Plenty of apps can fire “text Jack” on a schedule. Wavepal’s nudge arrives with Jack’s page: the new job you wanted to ask about, the birthday coming up, when you last talked. The difference between a chore and a conversation starter.
- A record that quiets the guilt.
- Every wave lands in a small history, so “have I been a terrible friend?” has an actual answer, and the answer is usually kinder than you’d guess.
- Room for life to get loud.
- Snooze is a first-class button, not an admission of failure. A nudge you skip simply waits its turn. If your brain runs on ADHD time, the whole app is shaped around that.
When they live far away.
What distance takes away is the accidental contact: running into each other, the standing Thursday dinner, the shared walk home. Once those are gone, every hello has to happen on purpose, and on purpose is the first thing a busy week squeezes out.
Wavepal can’t shrink the map. It keeps the on-purpose part from slipping: a pace for each friend, an early heads-up before their birthday so there’s time to mail something, and notes on what’s going on in their life. So the call with Desmond, three time zones away, starts with the thing you meant to ask about. The call itself happens wherever you already talk: FaceTime, WhatsApp, the phone.
Fair questions.
- How is this different from Garden or a stay-in-touch reminder app?
- Garden and other stay-in-touch apps are built around the reminder, and if a nudge on a schedule is all you need, one of them may be plenty. Wavepal pairs the nudge with the person: notes, birthdays, key dates, and a history of when you actually reached out, so you never open a chat cold.
- How often should you text your friends?
- There’s no correct number, and Wavepal won’t grade you on one. If you want a starting point, Robin Dunbar’s research on friendship layers found people keep up with their closest five or so about weekly, the next ten or so about monthly, and the rest of a circle of around 150 about once a year. Set each person’s pace from there and change it whenever it feels off.
- Can it import my contacts?
- No. There’s no importer today; Wavepal starts small on purpose. You add the handful of people you’re actually trying to stay close to. It takes a few minutes.
- Do my friends know I’m using an app?
- Only if you tell them. Wavepal is just for you: nothing for anyone else to join or install, no read receipts, no profile. Your friends just notice you got better at keeping in touch.
- What happens when I ignore a nudge?
- It waits. No red badge, no “overdue,” no guilt streak. Snooze it for a busy month and Wavepal circles back like nothing happened, because nothing did.
- Does it send the texts for me?
- No, and that’s deliberate. Wavepal nudges you and hands you the context; the actual message is yours, in whatever app you already talk in. Your friends get you, not a template.
Be the friend who remembers.
Add your first few people in minutes. Wavepal takes it from there.
Free up to 10 people. No card. Nothing for your friends to install.