Love letters · for couples
WaxSeal is an open-when letter and love coupon app for couples. You write a letter, give it a moment such as "when you can't sleep" or an open date, press it shut with a wax seal, and send it to your partner. They open it by dragging a finger across the wax until it cracks; opening before the date, or before the moment, tears the seal instead and leaves a mark you both see. Love coupons work the same way, torn along a perforated line in the app or from a home-screen widget.
A sealed letter fills the screen with the wax waiting in the middle. Drag across the seal and cracks spread from the edge until it snaps with a sharp buzz, the envelope opens, and the letter slides up. Open it before its date, or when it isn't really the moment, and the seal tears instead of cracking: a ragged edge stays on that letter for good, in both of your letterboxes.
Write the letter, then choose when it should be opened: when you've had a hard day, when you miss me, after a fight, when you can't sleep, or a line of your own. Add an open date if it belongs to a birthday or an anniversary, pick a wax color and emblem, and press the seal. Your partner gets a notification, but their letterbox shows only the wax and the label.
Send coupons like one long hug, dishes tonight, or a movie date where they pick, or write your own. The ones you receive wait in the app and on a home-screen widget. When the time comes, drag along the perforation in the app or tap Tear on the widget; the sender hears it's time to keep the promise, and the torn half stays in your archive.
Open-when letters are an old paper habit: a bundle of envelopes, each marked with a moment such as "open when you miss me" or "open when you can't sleep", handed over before a trip, a move, or a long stretch apart. Love coupons are the lighter cousin, a little booklet of promises torn out one at a time. Both work because they are physical. You can feel that the envelope is still closed.
The paper version has limits. The bundle has to be handed over or mailed, and if you live in different cities there is no easy way to add one more letter next Tuesday. A text message arrives instantly and is buried in the chat by evening. Nothing stops anyone from opening the whole stack on the first night, and coupon booklets tend to end up in a drawer, half used and forgotten.
The first screen is a demo letter sealed by the app, so you can try breaking a seal before you sign in to anything. To send real letters you connect with your partner: you each sign in with Apple or Google, one of you shares an invite link or a six-digit code, and the other accepts. Codes expire after 72 hours and can be sent again. You are connected to one person at a time.
When you seal a letter, its text is encrypted on your phone before it is sent. The server stores that encrypted text along with the envelope details it needs: who sent it, the label, the open date if there is one, the wax design, and whether it has been opened. The encrypted text is not delivered to your partner's phone until they open the letter, so the letterbox cannot show a preview and nobody can read ahead.
Your partner gets a notification when a letter arrives, and you get one when it is opened.
There are two kinds of condition. If a letter has an open date, the server checks it, and opening before that date counts as early. If a letter only has a label, like "when you've had a hard day", only the reader knows whether the moment has come. Before the seal breaks, WaxSeal asks one question: is this the moment? Saying yes opens it normally. Opening it anyway counts as early.
An early opening tears the seal instead of cracking it. The ragged edge stays on that letter permanently and shows in the sender's letterbox too. It cannot be undone; the only way to remove it is to delete the letter. The sender gets a note that the seal went early, written as a light tease rather than an accusation.
WaxSeal does not count early openings, keep a score, or rank anything. The torn edge is simply a fact about that one letter.
Coupons start from presets, such as one long hug, dishes tonight, or a movie date where they pick, or from a line you write yourself. Custom wording is encrypted the same way letter text is. Coupons have no expiry date.
Coupons you receive sit in a grid in the app and on a small or medium home-screen widget, which also shows how many sealed letters are waiting for you. Redeeming in the app means dragging along the perforated line until the stub comes away. On the widget it is one tap. Either way the sender gets a notification that it's time to keep the promise, and the torn half stays in your archive.
Letters and coupons are visible to the two people in the pair and nobody else. There is no public feed, no profile page, and no way to browse other couples. Usage analytics are anonymous and do not store device identifiers or IP addresses.
If you disconnect, both of you lose access right away and the widget clears. Everything is deleted after 30 days; if the same two people reconnect within that window, it comes back. Blocking someone also stops new invites from them. Because the server only holds encrypted letter text, reports work from your side: if you report a letter or coupon, your phone attaches its readable text to the report. Deleting your account in the app removes your pair, letters, and coupons.
Letters are text only. There are no photo or voice attachments, no chat thread, and no daily questions to answer. WaxSeal is for the few letters and promises you want to keep, not for everyday messaging.
It is not a relationship coach either. It gives no advice and no compatibility scores, and it keeps no streaks. Its job is narrow: keep a letter sealed until the moment it was written for, and make breaking that seal feel like something.
Yes, but it shows. Opening before the date tears the seal instead of cracking it, and the torn edge stays on the letter for both of you. The server checks the date, and the letter's text is not sent to your partner's phone until they open it, so nobody can peek from the list.
Letters and coupons are shared only between the two of you. Letter text, custom labels, and custom coupon wording are encrypted on the sender's phone before they are sent. The server keeps the envelope details: who sent what and when, the label, the open date, and whether it was opened. The one exception is a report: if you report a letter, its text goes with the report.
To send and receive, yes. Each of you signs in with Apple or Google when you connect, then one of you shares an invite link or a six-digit code that stays valid for 72 hours. You can try the demo letter on the first screen without signing in.
Pick a preset or write your own and send it. Your partner keeps it until they want it, then drags along the perforation in the app or taps Tear on the home-screen widget. You get a notification, and the torn half stays in their archive. Coupons do not expire.
Access stops for both of you immediately and the widget clears. Letters and coupons are deleted after 30 days. If the same two people reconnect before then, everything is restored.
No. Letters and coupons are text only.
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