A private Mac app
The people you’re drifting from, and one tap back.
Clarence is a private Mac app that notices who you’re drifting from and drafts the message to bring them back. On your Mac, never uploaded.
One plan, 14-day trial, no spam. Ever.
Still up?
Yes, and I’m sorry I left you hanging. Friday works. Same place as last time?
drafted in your voice · edit anything
nothing leaves your Mac
A render of the design. Real screenshots when it ships.
The rhythm graph
You don’t notice drift. That’s what drift is.
Nobody decides to lose a friend. The thread just goes quiet, and quiet is easy to miss. Clarence looks at how often you and someone actually talked, going back years, and shows you when it started to thin out. Usually early enough that you can still do something.
It isn’t a contact list, and it isn’t counting streaks. It just draws the shape of a friendship so you can see what’s happening to it.
Drafted in your voice
The hardest part is the first sentence. So it’s already written.
“What do I even say after seven months?” is where most people give up. Clarence writes the first line for you, pulled from your real history with that person and the way you two actually talk. Edit it, or say it your own way.
You always press send. Every message goes out through Messages, from you, as you. Clarence never sends anything on its own, because the whole point is that it came from you.
To: Dinesh · 3,658 texts, then 7 months quiet
Dinesh! I was just thinking about that drive back from Tahoe. It’s been way too long. How are you, really?
drafted in your voice · edit anything
Everything lives on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is stored.
Read, then let go
When you ask for a draft, Clarence reads the recent thread, uses it, and discards it. It tells you when it’s gone. Your history is never copied anywhere.
You always press send
Clarence drafts; it never sends. There is one send path in the whole app, it requires your click, and every send is logged where you can see it.
No telemetry. None.
No analytics, no tracking, no crash reports with your words in them. We can’t see how you use Clarence, and we built it so we never can.
We published exactly how this works, including what could go wrong, in How Clarence treats your messages.
Be there when it opens
Clarence is being built in the open, for the Mac, right now. Leave your email and you’ll hear from us twice: once when the beta opens, once when it ships. Nothing else.
One plan, 14-day trial, no spam. Ever.