Three-tap presets
Send a real thought without typing one. Pick a preset, pick a person, and you’re done — in under three seconds.
Low-pressure messaging
Get connected with the people you love.
PingUp is the quickest way to say you’re on my mind. Send a preset ping in three taps — no typing, no read receipts, no pressure to reply.
Coming soon to iOS
Three taps. That’s the whole app.
Most messaging asks for a lot: a thought, the right words, a reply you now owe. PingUp asks for one tap.
- 1
Select a message
Tap a preset — “I miss you,” “Call me,” “Thinking of you.” No keyboard required.
- 2
Pick a person
Choose from your top friends and the people you reach for most.
- 3
Send a ping
Delivered. They feel thought of — with no pressure to write back.
Our mission
Stay close, without the weight.
The people we love don’t need a paragraph from us. They need to know they’re on our mind.
PingUp exists because we kept noticing the same thing: the more friction a message has, the less often it gets sent. A thoughtful text means drafting, editing, owing a reply. So the people we care about most go weeks without hearing from us — not because we don’t care, but because we don’t have the bandwidth for that much care, that often.
A ping is the smallest possible gesture of “I’m thinking of you.” No keyboard. No read receipts. No reply expected. Just a quiet tap that lands as warmth on the other end.
We think connection should feel light.
That’s the whole idea.
What you can do
Built for the people you actually care about.
Four things PingUp does that nothing else does quite like this.
Streaks
Keep your favorite people glowing. A little fire icon next to their name turns “I should text Mom” into something you actually do.
Communities
Group pings for the people who travel together. Family group chats without the noise; team check-ins without the meetings.
Ping Ups
Schedule a meetup as easily as you send a hello. Coffee, FaceTime, dinner — the calendar lives where the conversation already is.
Privacy by design
The pressure isn’t in the message.
The pressure isn’t in the message.
It’s in the medium.
Read receipts. Typing indicators. Notifications that shout your business on the lockscreen. Modern messaging comes packed with quiet obligations — a message seen is a reply owed.
PingUp doesn’t do any of that. No read receipts. No typing indicators. Push notifications default to “You have a Ping” with no sender or content shown unless you say otherwise. What lands on the other end is warmth, not weight.
Privacy isn’t a setting we bolted on. It’s the whole reason the app exists.
- Read receipts
- Typing indicators
- Message previews on your lockscreen
- Reply-pressure by default
Coming soon to iOS
Be one of the first to ping.
Join the waitlist and we’ll let you know the day PingUp lands in the App Store. No spam — just the launch.