A small app that holds something for later.

Most apps shout. Drift does not. The internet has plenty of places to perform a self for other people. We wanted a place to write to a self that is not here yet.

A letter to next month, when this hard week has ended. A voice memo for the version of you who finishes the project. A photo of today, quietly waiting for a year from now. The act of sealing something and stepping away changes how it feels when it comes back.

Pick whatever fits the day. Drift treats them all the same. A bottle is a bottle.

• A note. Words for the version of you who needs them.
• A voice memo. Your own voice, returning later.
• A photo. Today, sealed and waiting.
• A short video. Sixty seconds for someone in the future.

You pick a window between one day and one year. Drift rolls a real die inside that window and chooses the exact day. Drift seals the bottle. You cannot peek, even from your own phone.

On the chosen day, the bottle washes ashore. You get a quiet notification. You open it once. Then it stays in your archive, or you let it drift away.

• No email, no phone number, no sign in.
• No server. Your messages stay on your phone.
• No ads, no analytics, no selling what you wrote.
• No streaks, no leaderboards, no notifications you did not ask for.
• No peeking at a sealed bottle, even from your own phone.

The longer version is on the privacy page. The short version: your messages stay on your phone.

Offhour (opens in a new tab) makes Drift. We are a small studio that builds quiet, slow software. We also keep ikigaiocha.com (opens in a new tab), a slower corner of the same studio.

Drift is an iPhone app, designed for iOS 16 and later. It is free, with no subscription, no ads, and no in-app purchases. An Android version is not on the roadmap. The whole thing is small on purpose.