Thereafter: Letter Journal

Letters, Poems & Pen Pals

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

A letter a day from someone mysterious. Poems, stories and something to laugh about. Keep the ones that stay, trade postcards with other readers, and write to future you. Thereafter is a letterbox, a journal, and a quiet place to meet other readers, built entirely around letters. Every day, at the hour you choose, a letter arrives from someone called The Writer. You have never met them. But they write like they know you. Some letters are thoughtful, some are quirky, some arrive as poems. A few are best read with the lights on. All of them are written for moments like yours. POSTCARDS: You're not the only one reading. Under each day's letter, other readers leave postcards: a few lines about what the letter stirred in them. Read them, keep the ones that speak to you, and write your own. Dress yours with a paper, a border, a stamp, your ink and a wax seal of your own. Send a postcard by chance, once a day, to one reader picked at random. And pin the postcards you keep into bundles of your own. Some postcards turn into pen pals. Write to the reader whose words sounded like yours. Keep talking in chat, or trade sealed letters, one a day each way. PAPER TRAIL: Every card you and another reader answer becomes its own conversation, all drawn together on one map. Write an afterthought under any letter when something lingers. Turn a favorite into a keepsake card and share it. Keep the letters that stay with you, in collections of your own. Nothing is ever lost here. The Archive holds every letter The Writer has ever sent, back to the very first, to browse and search. Your unopened letters wait there under wax. On Your Desk, the Reading Room holds original stories, a new chapter every week. Beside the books stand The Writer's Shelves: small sets of letters written for an hour rather than a date, from sleepless nights to the heavy days. Write a letter to your future self. Seal it with one word for how you feel today, and choose the day it opens. Each capsule you seal becomes a star in a sky of your own, and every six you open settle into a constellation named for the feeling you sealed most. WHAT'S INSIDE · A new letter every day from The Writer, at the hour you choose · Postcards: read, keep and write them under each day's letter · Postcards by chance, and bundles for the ones you keep · Dress your postcards with papers, borders, stamps, inks and your own wax seal · Chat and pen pals with the readers whose words found you · Paper Trail: every card you and another reader answer, drawn as a map · Afterthoughts: a private note under any letter · Share cards: any letter as a keepsake image · Keep your favorite letters and gather them into collections · The Archive: every letter The Writer has ever sent · The Reading Room: original stories, a chapter a week · The Writer's Shelves: letters for a mood or an hour · Time Capsules: letters to your future self, charted as stars · Eight stationery themes, each with a light and a dark mode · Fifteen illustrated avatars · A home screen widget: a sealed envelope at your hour · The Manifest: a guidebook to every room · Track your reading streak · PIN lock and biometric unlock for privacy · No ads. Ever. FREE AND PREMIUM Thereafter is free to use. Your daily letter, afterthoughts, hearts and collections cost nothing. Neither does reading, writing, keeping and bundling the postcards under each letter, the first chapter of every story, the Classic theme, six avatars or the letterbox widget. Premium opens every room: every past letter, back to the very first; every letter you keep, opened; the postcards written to you, read in full, kept and answered in chat or as pen pals; every chapter and every shelf; time capsules; seven more themes, nine more avatars, dressed postcards, and breaking the widget's seal for one kept line from today's letter. Try it free for 7 days. Your subscription renews automatically after the trial unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends, and you can cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Privacy Policy: https://thereafterapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://thereafterapp.com/terms

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Thereafter v2.1.1: • Postcards, by chance. Send your note on today's letter to one reader, picked at random, once a day. Somewhere, someone opens a postcard they weren't expecting. • Postcards get a new look and new borders. • Bundles for what you keep. Pin the postcards you've kept, and your saved echoes, into bundles you name, laid out on a board. • Paper Trail is here. Every card you answer with someone becomes its own conversation, and together they draw a map of the two of you. Find it in your Inbox. • Tell us about the story. When a story reaches THE END, tell us how it sat with you: loved it, or not for me. • On the way. Your Desk now shows the rooms we're building next, starting with Dear Diary. • And many small touches and fixes. With Love, Thereafter

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Seller
House Odorion LLC
Size
56.3 MB
Category
Lifestyle
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
18+
  • 18+
  • Infrequent
    Profanity or Crude Humor

    Contains
    Messaging and Chat
    User-Generated Content
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Thereafter Premium Monthly $4.99
  • Thereafter Premium Yearly $39.99
Copyright
© 2026