Pen‑pals who
actually write back.
A pen-pal app where letters take real time to cross real distance — and where you can see how often someone replies before you spend an hour writing. Soon, you will be able to send one as real paper, to a real letterbox.
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Everyone writing now is a founding member: the mark is permanent, and the first 100 accounts get six months of Letterway Post free. See what that means →
Five things founding members get.
You're here before the apps are
Letterway runs in full on the web today. The phone apps are in review — you'll have been writing for months by the time they land.
Founding member, permanently
A quiet mark on your profile that says you were here at the start. It won't ever be for sale.
First pick of names
Choose the name you sign your letters with while every one of them is still free.
Six months of Letterway Post — first 100
Stationery, wax seals and the searchable archive, free for six months, for the first 100 accounts. Not a sale and not a countdown timer — just the first hundred.
You get asked first
Founding members see what's being built and get a say before it ships. We'd rather argue with you early than guess.
What we won’t promise: a date for the phone apps. They are built and they are in the review queues, which are not ours to hurry. Everything Letterway does works on the web in the meantime — and we’d rather be late than ship something that wastes the hour you spend writing a letter.
Slow mail.
Real connections.
Discover pen-pals
Match with like-minded people from 100+ countries using shared interests, languages, and topics.
Write letters
Compose beautiful letters with our typewriter-inspired editor — complete with authentic sounds.
Track delivery
Watch your letter journey across the world in real time on an interactive global map.
Collect stamps
Earn a unique stamp from every country you correspond with and build your own collection.
Some letters should arrive on paper.
Every letter here is typed, and most of them should stay that way. But after a year of writing to someone, one of them deserves an envelope. We are building the part where you can post it.
You write it exactly the same way
Same composer, same journey across the map, same wax seal. The only difference is what lands at the other end.
Neither of you ever sees an address
Theirs goes straight to the printer and to nobody else — not to you, not onto a screen. Yours works the same way coming back.
Part of Letterway Post
It arrives as part of the paid tier. The first hundred founding members already have six months of that.
Not built yet · No date promised · The next thing we are building
A letter arrives when
you aren’t looking.
That is the point of the thing, and it is the one problem a browser tab cannot solve: a letter crossing the world lands more than a day after it was sent, usually while you are somewhere else entirely. The Android app tells you. Same account, same correspondences — whatever is in the air stays in the air.
On an iPhone, or anywhere else? Letterway runs in full on the web — it’s the same account.
Write the first
letter yourself.
An address, a code, and you’re in — there is no password to invent. Your first letter can be on its way in about ten minutes, which is roughly how long it will take to reach the next town.
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