Ome

A pair of small stones, each with an NFC tag inside, and an iPhone app that listens for them. Tap your phone to your stone and the apps you have chosen go quiet. Tap again and they come back.

Because the other person is the point. A promise holds better when someone else is in on it. You keep one stone and give the other to someone you trust. In the app they are your Anam Cara, your soul friend. When either of you steps away, the other sees it, and can join in.

Each stone comes with a year of Ome membership for the person who wakes it. After that it is $9.99 a year each, through the App Store, and you can cancel whenever you like. Membership is what passes between the two of you: seeing when the other steps away, joining them, cheering them on, your shared time in Ome, and most of your stats. If either membership lapses, that part pauses for you both until it is renewed. Your stone still quiets your phone.

No. They see that you have stepped away and that you are back. They can cheer you on, or step away themselves and join you. They cannot start, end or extend your time away, and they never see what you set aside. Notifications never say how long you were gone. Witness, not control.

Your time in Ome: today, this week, and how many times you stepped away this week. It is on to begin with, and each of you has a switch in Settings to keep it private. Nothing else is shared. Your phone's own screen time never leaves your phone.

Whenever you need to. No caps, no fees, no guilt screens. Tap your stone again, or hold to return in the app. Your Anam Cara simply sees that you are back.

No. Keep your stones in different rooms, cities or countries. The pairing lives in the app, so the distance does not matter. Some of the best moments are when you are apart.

Yes. Ome uses Apple's own Screen Time tools to quiet your apps, so each of you needs an iPhone on iOS 18 or later. Android is not supported. We would rather tell you now than after you buy.

No. There is no battery, no screen and nothing to update. Your phone powers the tap.

It is cast stone, hand-finished and weighty, with the triskele inlaid in a gold tone. We will name the exact materials once the first samples are approved.

Either of you can part ways alone, in the app, and invite someone else. If a stone is lost you can retire it, so nobody who finds it can wake it, and wake a replacement. You keep your Anam Cara either way.

Your stones keep working. Stepping away and coming back happen on your iPhone, not on our servers. What would stop is the part between the two of you.

Ome opens in the UK, Ireland and the EU first, shipping spring 2027. It comes to the US later in 2027. Join the US list below and we will write when the first stones can reach you.