This week's letterWhat's something small you'd like to do together this month?
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Sealed. Waiting for Sam.Sealed 11 April · 21:14
For two of you
- You
- Your partner
- Both letters arrived
One question.
Two letters.
Once a week.
Pair with your partner. Pick a day and an hour. From then on, the dove brings the same question to both of you each week. You write in private. Neither letter opens until both are sealed, and then they open together.
Free forever. Four weeks of archive. No streaks, no scores.
The rhythm
A small ritual,
once a week.
- 01
One question, between two.
Each week, the same prompt arrives in both of your inboxes at the same hour, in the same time zone you both chose. No groups, no audiences. Just you and your partner.
- 02
Sealed until both arrive.
Write at your own pace. Save a draft. Come back. When you seal, your letter waits. Neither of you can read the other until both are in.
- 03
A record of what mattered.
Every reveal becomes part of a private archive that's only yours, together. The dove never forgets, even if the moment slips by.
A letter, sealed
Two pages.
One reveal.
The dove brings one question. Each of you writes from your own corner. When the second seal hits the page, both letters open at once, even if one of you is still on the bus home.
Par Avion
The same letter,
sent first-class.
- Tailored questions
- Once you've answered a few, the dove starts choosing prompts shaped to the things you've been writing about, without ever reading the letters themselves.
- Send to inbox and pocket
- Email and text delivery on top of push, so the letter still arrives on the days when the app stays closed.
- An archive that doesn't shrink
- Every letter ever written, kept. Free accounts keep the last four; Par Avion keeps them all.
- Anniversary letters
- Each year on the day you paired, a special prompt arrives in place of the regular one.
Pricing
Two of you,
one envelope.
Par Avion · Annual
Two months free
$30/ year, for both of you
Email and text delivery. Tailored questions. Unlimited archive. Anniversary letters. One subscription covers the couple.
Par Avion · Monthly
$3/ month
Same letters. Pay month to month. Cancel anytime; your letters stay yours.
Join the waitlistFree
$0/ forever
Weekly question. Partner pairing. Push delivery. Four weeks of archive.
Who made this
Bapusaheb Patil.
Or, just Baps.
Helsinki, FI
Designer and builder.
I'm Baps. An AI design engineer and a five-time award-winning designer. I've built and shipped things at Fluence, Google's Flutter team, and Blockdaemon, and consulted on AI products for teams who had no business letting me anywhere near them.
Doveborn started as a joke. My guy friend Harshit took to flirting with me instead of his wife, so I built him a thing that would make him write to her for a week before he could see her reply. One question, both writing in their own time, a small reveal at the end of the week. He's still married. Then I made it properly, so the two of them wouldn't be the only ones using it.
Doveborn doesn't gamify your relationship. There are no streaks, no scores, no compatibility ratings. There's a question, two envelopes, and a dove that brings them across.
Outside this, I draw type, write a book about branding, judge a design award or two a year, and have been called a golden retriever by three separate people. I take it as a compliment.