Keep your closest friendships alive.
A friendship app for your closest few. An everyday room to talk in, plus one real question a week.
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Close friendships really are fading.
Not just yours, almost everyone's. Here's the drift, in four numbers.
It isn't just a few unlucky people.
more adults have no close friends than in 1990
More and more of us are landing at zero. The wanting never went away; the keeping-in-touch did.
We didn't stop caring. We stopped showing up.
a week with friends now, and still falling
Down from six and a half hours two decades ago. The hours did not move to family or work; they mostly went to screens and the couch.
Closeness gets built one hour at a time.
to turn someone into a best friend
The ladder is climbable in both directions. Fifty hours makes a casual friend a good one; two hundred makes a good friend a best one. The same hours, left unspent, let them slide back down.
Each dot ≈ 10 hours together
Add it up, and here's the quiet result.
of your closest people are still there after seven years
Half your circle drifts away unless someone keeps a rhythm. The friends who stay are rarely the closest ones; they are the ones you kept showing up for.
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Friendships don't end in a fight. They end in a calendar nobody kept.
The drift is just the result of doing nothing, repeated. The same arithmetic runs the other way too: fifty hours lifts a casual friend to a good one, two hundred makes a good friend your closest. A little time, kept on a rhythm instead of left to chance, is the whole difference between the people who stay and the people you used to know. Leave it to chance, and the room slowly empties until one day you're the only one in it.
Colloquies exists to keep that rhythm for you — one quiet room, one real question a week, so the friends who already matter don't quietly become strangers.
A small room with the people who know you
A handful of people who already know you, in one shared room. There's an everyday hallway to talk in whenever, and once a week the whole circle gathers around a single question. Small, trusted groups of 2–8. The people you actually want to know better.
Support Group
Friends
Us Two
Partner
Modern Family
Family
Drafting & Laughing
Cycling
One question the whole room answers
Every Monday, your circle gets a thoughtful prompt. Questions designed to spark real conversations, not small talk.
"What current fact about your life would most impress your five-year-old self?"
"What's something about how we communicate that you really like?"
"What's a quirk you have that you only realized came from this family after someone else pointed it out?"
"What's a dream you have that feels selfish to say out loud?"
"What's a session you'd freeze and put in a frame if you could?"
"What's a piece of art or culture you're glad I introduced you to?"
"What's something you used to judge others for that you now understand?"
"What's something simple you do every day for your wellbeing?"
Real answers, real connection
Everyone answers before seeing others' responses. No groupthink. Just honest reflections that bring you closer.
"I have my own apartment with a real kitchen. Five-year-old me would have lost it over the freezer ice maker alone."
Anna
"How you ask one more question after I'm done answering. Most people just wait for their turn."
James
"I narrate while I cook. Apparently it's a Mom thing. I had no idea until my roommate filmed me explaining the onions."
Sophie
"A year where I just write and don't earn anything. One year. I feel guilty even saying it out loud."
John
"The ride up to the lake at sunrise last September. Nobody talked for the last twenty minutes. I think about it all the time."
Marcus
"Studio Ghibli. I rolled my eyes the first time. Now I've seen Spirited Away four times and you owe me nothing."
Emma
Week by week, question by question, you'll understand each other in ways you never expected.
What it actually looks like
Six screens from the app. They rotate every few seconds. Tap a label to jump.
Answer blindly
Everyone writes their answer in private first. You only see what the rest of the circle wrote once you've shared your own. No groupthink, no piggybacking.
Weekly chapter
Every Monday opens a new chapter, with a fresh prompt picked from a library of thousands. The whole circle gathers around it for the week, and the conversation lives there forever.
Inside a circle
Different people, different rhythm, different kinds of questions. What's said in one circle stays in one. Your family room doesn't bleed into your hiking group.
Home
The home screen is the only place you'll see everything at once. No feed, no follower count, no algorithm. Just the rooms you've chosen to spend time in.
Pick a starter
900 conversation starters are bundled into the app itself, so you always have a question ready when the moment calls for one. Anywhere, anytime, even offline.
Filter starters
Looking for something light, or something honest about what's actually going on? Filter by Casual, Personal, or Deep, and by theme, from Stories & Memories to Dreams & Fears.
Built for depth, not for a feed
No ads, no like buttons, no algorithm deciding who you hear from. A few deliberate choices keep the room honest.
Small circles only
A ceiling of 2–8 people per circle, so everyone can be honest without performing for a crowd.
A hallway and a heartbeat
An everyday hallway to talk in whenever, and one thoughtful prompt every Monday that gathers the whole circle.
Blind answers first
You share your own answer before seeing anyone else's. No groupthink, no piggybacking.
Private by design
Your circle is yours alone. Messages are encrypted in transit and at rest, and end-to-end encryption is one tap away when you create a Private circle, for the rooms that need it most.
Simple, Transparent Pricing
Free for every small circle. Unlock a circle for everyone in it with a single yearly pass.
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Everything a small circle needs for real conversation
- Start up to 3 circles, join up to 5
- Full messaging — text, reactions, replies, attachments
- A new Colloquy prompt every week, in every circle
- 90 conversation starters in the picker
- Edit or delete your messages for up to a minute
- Your messages stay on your device, indefinitely
- 90 days of cloud history, so new devices can catch up
- Full data export (JSON)
- Private by design, ad-free
Circle Plus
Unlock the Whole Circle
One yearly pass that lifts everyone in a circle, not just you
A 12-month pass, not a subscription — nothing auto-renews.
- One pass unlocks all of this for every member:
- Unlimited cloud history for the whole circle
- All 900 conversation starters, for everyone
- Pin messages so the whole circle can find them
- Edit or delete your messages for up to an hour
- Personalize the circle — bubble palettes, backgrounds, avatar shapes
- Custom polls
- Any member can buy it; stack passes up to five years ahead
Start Your First Circle Today
Available on iOS and Android. Download now and invite your closest people to join your first circle.
Free to download. Start with the free plan, upgrade anytime.
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