Who it’s for › Moved abroad
The people you grew up with are in a time zone you have to do maths for. You are not avoiding them. You are asleep when they are free.
More on this in the blog: how to keep a long distance friendship.
What you type stays on this page. We don’t save it or send it anywhere.
Sara
You talked today
About a week later, at 6:00 PM
You haven't talked to Sara
It's been a week. Just say hi.
nowThe faces show how long it’s been since you talked to a friend.
Swipe right when you talk. The clock resets.
You see the message half asleep, decide to answer properly tomorrow, and then tomorrow is the same.
Forty messages about a night you were not at. There is nothing to add, so you add nothing.
Two weeks a year of seeing everybody, and eleven months of almost nothing.
I’m Simo. I’m from a small city in the north of Italy, and I moved to Barcelona.
Life got busy with work, and it got hard to stay up to date with my friends and family back home.
I’ve always been very attached to them, so the distance started to feel heavy, and I felt like a bad friend.
Simo, who makes Ciao!
Every friend has a little animal, and its face shows how long it’s been since you talked. The list also shows when you last spoke to each person.
Coming up shows who is due and whose birthday is close, so after a busy month you know who to write to first.
The Sunday note arrives on Sunday morning where you live, not where they live, and only when someone is due. Swipe right on the people you talked to, and Ciao! starts counting again from that talk.
Ciao! sends its notes on your clock, wherever you are, so they come at a sensible hour for you. When to write is up to you: a voice note they wake up to counts, and you log it like a call.
Save their number with its country code, like +39 for Italy, and the WhatsApp, Message and Call buttons reach the right phone.
Your parents every week, your oldest friend every couple of weeks, your cousin once a month. Each one is set separately, and you can change it any time.
Write down what they said. Six weeks later it is on their page, waiting, before you type hello.
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