Stay close to that one person you keep meaning to catch up with.
A small weekly ritual for two people who don’t want to drift apart.
Once a week, you each answer the same few questions about how life actually feels this week. Neither half opens until both are in. Then, both at once.
Free isn’t a trial here. Three pol-pols are yours to keep forever. Founder Plus is €3.75/month for up to 25 connections.
Good afternoon, Eva.
Jelena sealed. Ivan’s is still moving.
Tuesday · 16 Jun
Keep the moments that would otherwise slip between the lines.
Not because anyone stopped caring. The week just shrinks to quick messages, short calls, and the practical things that need answering.
Meanwhile, the real weeks happen somewhere else. In the moments that made them laugh and you missed, in the things that exhausted you, in the thoughts neither of you found a way to say out loud.
pol-pol is a place for those moments and the people you'd want to share them with.
Here's how the two of you write a shared story, one week at a time.
Four steps to start, and the last one keeps going as long as you both do.
You start with one person you've been meaning to catch up with.
The friend whose week now belongs to a small person learning to say her name. The partner whose week you only know in pieces, lifted from voice notes between time zones.
The brother who replies three days late with "how are you really" and means it.
Who is this pol-pol for?
Tell us about them in your own words. We use this to shape the questions.
Once a week, you both answer the same few questions about how life's really going.
Some weeks, it takes five minutes. Other weeks, one question opens something you didn’t realize you needed to say.
You can write, add a voice note, or include a small photo from your week if words don’t carry the whole feeling.
What little (or big) thing made you laugh this week?
Your half stays sealed until they've written theirs, then both open at once.
That keeps the exchange mutual. You’re not performing into silence, and they’re not just reading you without showing up too.
When both sides are in, the pol-pol opens and you read each other’s week side by side.
The thread becomes something you each gladly keep coming back to, on your own time.
Not a chat full of logistics, memes, and half-finished plans, but a record of what life felt like while it was happening.
Open it months later and you can see what kept coming back, what changed, and what you would have missed if you only waited for the next “proper catch-up.”
Eva’s chair hasn’t been empty since Monday. Jelena’s quietly proud from nine thousand kilometres away.
Real calls are rare across the time difference, so the little recordings carry the week between them.
Eva sent grey skies from Brisbane; Jelena sent the first warm evening at home. Same Sunday, opposite seasons.
No call, no plan, just the two of them online at once, getting wiped out and laughing the whole way through.
Start with one person.
Pick someone you love, miss, or keep meaning to properly catch up with. Write the thing you almost sent yesterday, but with a little more care. Once a week is enough to keep the thread alive.
Free to start. Founder offer: €3.75/month for up to 25 connections, before public launch