DearMe · Stillcraft

What's inside

Everything DearMe does.

Letters

Text, several photos and a voice note of up to a minute. A letter opens in a week, a month, 1, 5, 10 or 30 years, or on any date you pick.

Photos, any way you like

The back camera, a selfie, both at once BeReal-style (back first, a selfie a second later), or pictures from the gallery.

Random moments

Every day at a surprise time inside your window, DearMe calls. You have two minutes for a dual shot and one line. Late answers get a stamp.

Rituals

Your own rules for when to be called: a random or exact time, on chosen weekdays, once a month or once a year, with what goes in and how long it stays sealed.

Step by step

Moments open after a week while the habit is new, after a month during the first year, after a year from then on, so there is something to open from the second week.

Breaking the seal

A sealed letter shows only its date, a countdown and what's inside: 📷 2 · 🎙 0:42 · 340 words. When the day comes, you break the wax and the flap lifts.

Then & now

After opening, stand where you stood and take the same shot today. The two go side by side.

Write back

Reply to your past self, and the answer is sealed for the next stretch: a correspondence with yourself across years.

Share cards

Story-sized pictures: “I sealed a letter to myself, it opens on 14 October 2056”, an opened letter with its photo, then & now.

40 questions

What are you most afraid of right now? Who do you miss? What will you laugh at when you read this? For when the page is blank.

Clock check

Moving the phone's date forward doesn't open anything: DearMe compares the clock with time since boot and, when online, with the network.

Everything stays on the phone

No account, no servers, no analytics, no ads. Every letter, photo and voice note fits in one scrambled .dearme backup file to carry to the next phone.

Screens

Captured in DearMe.

DearMe: Letters — **Letters**On their way, with the next countdown.

DearMe: Sealed — **Sealed**Only the date and a countdown.

DearMe: The seal — **The seal**The day has come.

DearMe: Opened — **Opened**A letter with a dual shot.

DearMe: Write — **Write**A new letter with a question.

DearMe: Rituals — **Rituals**When DearMe should call you.

Rituals to start from

Ritual	When it calls	What goes in	Opens
Random moment	Every day at a surprise time between 10:00 and 22:00	Both cameras and one line, in two minutes	Step by step: a week, a month, then a year
Sunday letter	Sundays at 21:00	A selfie and a letter, with a question	In a year
First of the month	The 1st of every month at 9:00	What you expect from the month	When the month ends
Birthday letter	Once a year	A selfie, your voice and a letter	In ten years

Get it

Get DearMe.

Install

Version: v1.0.0
File: DearMe.apk
Requires: Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer. No Google services needed.
Permissions: Camera and microphone for letters, notifications and exact alarms for rituals, and internet only for a quiet network clock check.
License: MIT

Download the APK on your phone.
Open it and allow installs from this source when Android asks.
Write your first letter, pick a day and seal it.

On Xiaomi (MIUI / HyperOS), Huawei and some other phones, allow Autostart for DearMe and remove battery limits, or random moments may not ring.

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Build from source

JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK.

git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/dearme.git
cd dearme
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest     # unit tests
./gradlew assembleDebug         # debug APK; a ritual's Try it now calls right away
./gradlew installDebug -Pdemo   # app.dearme.demo with a year of made-up letters

Good to know

Questions people ask.

Is there a premium version?

No. Every letter, ritual, question and card is there for everyone, with no ads, no trial and no subscription.

Can I peek before the day?

Not easily. Moving the date forward doesn't work, and a backup is scrambled inside. There is no server, though, so the seal is a strong habit rather than a vault: a diary lock for the person you're going to be.

What if I change phones?

Letters live only on your phone. Save a backup in Settings → Backup now and then, keep the .dearme file somewhere safe and restore it on the new phone. For a letter meant for 2056, this matters.

Does anything leave my phone?

No. Letters, photos and voice notes stay in the app's private storage. The only network request is a quiet look at the network clock before a seal is broken.