Grab a Seat
Keep the spark alive
with the people who matter.
Grab a Seat remembers who you have been meaning to call, gives you a nudge when it has been a while, and celebrates every time you reach out. It never counts the days you missed.
What makes it different
It will never make you feel bad.
Most reminder apps run on guilt. They count what you failed to do and show you the number. Grab a Seat does the opposite, on purpose, everywhere.
What other apps say
Overdue: 12 days
You haven't contacted Sarah since March
3 contacts need attention
What Grab a Seat says
Sarah would love to hear from you
Ready to connect
You're all caught up. Nice work!
And on the weeks you reach out to nobody at all, it says nothing whatsoever. No streak lost, no red badge, no catching up to do.
How it works
Three things, done properly.
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Choose who sits close
Add the people you want to keep up with and say roughly how often. Weekly for a handful, now and then for the rest. You can change your mind at any time.
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Get a nudge, not a nag
When it has been a while, you get one quiet reminder. Set quiet hours, or pause everything for a week. Miss it and nothing escalates, because nothing is keeping score.
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Log it and get a little confetti
Tap once after you call, text, or meet up. Grab a Seat celebrates it, every single time, and then gets out of your way until the next one.
What it holds on to
It remembers, so the next conversation is easy.
Writing down what you talked about is free, on every plan, and always will be. What the paid plans add is depth: more of the story, more of the detail, and help deciding who to call.
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The whole story, not just the last line
Every free account keeps the most recent note on a person, which is usually the one you need before you call. Enhanced opens the rest of them, for as long as you keep that person.
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The dates that matter
Birthdays are free on every plan, and you hear about one the day before, while there is still time to do something about it. Anniversaries, the other days worth remembering, and the details you want kept about someone are part of Premium.
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"I have twenty minutes. Who?"
Say how long you have and Grab a Seat hands back a few people and a reason for each. Part of Premium, and the closest the app gets to the moment it is named after.
Your data
It lives on your phone.
Grab a Seat is built local-first. Your contacts, notes, and history are stored on your device, which is why the whole app keeps working with no signal at all. What syncs is a backup, so a lost phone is not a lost history.
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Works offline once you are in
Add someone on a plane, log a call in a basement. Everything you do offline syncs the next time you have a connection. Signing in the first time does need one.
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No ads, and nobody else watching
No advertising, no third-party analytics SDKs, no tracking pixels. We do not follow you around other apps or websites and we never sell or share your information. We do record which parts of the app get used, on our own servers, and you can read every one of those events in your export.
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Take it or delete it, whenever
Export everything as JSON from inside the app. Delete your account and all of it goes immediately, without emailing anyone to ask.
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Your contacts stay yours
Importing from your phone or from Google is optional, read-only, and happens once. Nothing is uploaded from your address book unless you pick it.