Nightly
One question a night. A whole map of each other.
Nightly is a private, two-person bedtime ritual for couples who already love each other and want to keep discovering each other anyway. Every night it asks you one warm, open-ended question. You answer for yourself and guess what your partner will say. Then comes the reveal.
The Small, Steady Pleasure of Being Known
Nightly belongs to the two of you: a few minutes before sleep and one good question, without an audience or a score. One partner might play at 7 am and the other at 5 pm. The reveal simply waits until you’ve both answered.
The ritual, in four steps
- One shared question appears for both of you each night.
- You each answer privately, in your own words, at your own pace.
- You each guess what the other person will say. The guess is where the intimacy lives.
- The reveal unlocks once you’ve both finished: your guess, side by side with their real answer. Then one reaction. “I knew that” or “That surprised me.” There’s no score.
Built for the long haul
Every reveal files into a growing Love Map of each other, organized by theme: Small Joys, The Past, This Season of Life, Tender Places, Dreams, and Someday. The questions start light and only reach the tender ones after weeks together. The connection counter only ever climbs. No streaks, no red numbers, no shame for a night off.
Just your two phones
Nightly has no server, no accounts, and no subscription. Your answers sync directly between your two phones through your own iCloud. Some of the most personal things you’ll ever write down should live with the two people they’re for, and no one else.
The Book Behind the App
Built by Chris Weiss, who is also writing The Last Bites.
The novel runs on an unnerving version of the same question this app asks gently. A man Ella has never met requests her by name, from a cell, for the last meal of his life, and he knows things about her. Meanwhile she is living with someone she sees every day and could not tell you one true thing he wants.
That gap is what Nightly is for. The person across the table is a stranger you happen to have a lot of data about. So every night the app asks a question. If I cooked you one final meal, what would you want on the plate? The answers are usually not what the other person guessed.
Curious where that came from? Read the first three chapters.