Slowy Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• The Power of Constraints: Why Less is More in Social Media

  I frequently use Slowly, a pen pal app that emulates the heyday of letter writing by making the digital letters take time to deliver, based on the geographical distance between the sender and recipient. I love this restriction because the consequence of it is taking away the constant stress we feel from having to be constantly available on social media. Sending a letter on Slowly means taking a break, focusing on... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• What I’ve Learned by Deleting My Accounts

  Try an app called Slowly, here is the link: https://slowly.app/en/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Swedish Speakrs

  Can’t give you any local options, but if you want to practice your reading and writing, you could use a virtual penpal app like Slowly. I’ve been using it since 2018, and I’ve even visited a few of my penpals around the world. It’s free to use with no caveats. Source: about 1 year ago

• Question Thread / Demando-fadeno

  Https://slowly.app/en/ is the closest equivalent to the modern version of a penpal and there are esperanto speakers on it. Source: about 1 year ago

• What was fucking awesome as a kid, but sucks as an adult?

  There's this app called Slowly that matches you with random pen pals and it even emulates the mail travel time. It takes like 3 days for mail from my Japanese penpal to arrive and it's really exciting! Source: over 1 year ago

• Offering: English Seeking: Spanish

  Hi! This is a little bit unconventional, but I might as well post here. I'm looking for a friend/ penpal on the app called Slowly. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Snail Mail with penpals...any good experiences?

  I fill kinda shill-ish because I've linked this app like three times over the last few days, but I love the app Slowly. It's electronic snail-mail. People send longer letters and it takes a long time to deliver messages (~8 hours from here in Taiwan to Japan, nearly 2 days from Taiwan to Argentina). Source: about 2 years ago

• Struggle with Japanese Tandem Partners…

  I've personally had much better experiences on Slowly than on Tandem or HelloTalk. Source: about 2 years ago

• How to cope with loneliness on your birthday?

  And you are not alone, we are here, and there are many people out there up for socializing with you. I can advise this app too, great low bar way to connect with people from around the world https://slowly.app/en/. Source: about 2 years ago

• Feature request

  If you visit the Slowly website, at the bottom there are various links, one of them being 'Contact Us'. Source: over 2 years ago

• "The Subversive Genius of Extremely Slow Email" - The Atlantic's article about a new 'Slow Messenger' called Pony Messenger

  Ben Grosser created the Minus social network, on which you can post only 100 times. Other technologies of unhurriedness include Dialup (a surprise-phone-call app), Slowly (a pen-pal service), and Mail Goggles (a Gmail add-in to prevent email regret). Source: over 2 years ago

• [NeedAdvice] Getting disciplined can be lonely

  There was a time I went through something similar - all of my friends had either entirely moved out of my city or we had grown apart and had very different schedules to do anything together. One of my friends then suggested I make penpals on Slowly and I write to them. I was initially sceptical, but gave it a go later and I defintiely don't regret it. Source: over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Pony is a messenger for mindful correspondence. It delivers once a day

  Thanks for working on this. It reminds me of a social app called Slowly (https://slowly.app/en/) where you write "letters" to people and they are delivered based on the approximate physical distance between them. It's common for letters across countries to take >12 or sometimes even >24 hours. It's led people to a lot of meaningful relationships/friendships, they publish some as stories:... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• An Open Letter

  Oh my gosh, what a cool idea! Totally giving me slowly vibes. Source: over 2 years ago

• Honestly how to meet Korean friends/ pen pals?

  Oh and another tip, I've had some people on Slowly (digital penpal app) who wanted to exchange via Korean. It's not a dedicated language learning service, but you might find some like-minded people there. Source: over 2 years ago

• Is anyone interested to be foreign pen-pals?

  Slowly app is exactly what you're looking for. Source: almost 3 years ago

• uncreative and boring man seeks penpals but can't chose the right words

  I used to use Slowly until my life got a lot busier and I couldn't keep up with the letters I was getting sadly. When I'm done with school, I plan on using it again since it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed meeting new people and receiving their letters. Source: almost 3 years ago