Grab a Seat
Features
Everything it does,
and what it refuses to.
Grab a Seat is deliberately small. It does a handful of things, and it leaves out the things that would turn staying in touch into a chore.
The people
Circles of closeness
Put each person in a circle and say roughly how often you would like to be in touch. That single choice is what drives everything else.
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A cadence, not a schedule
"Every couple of weeks" is a rhythm, not an appointment. Grab a Seat waits until it has been a while, then mentions it once.
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Bring your contacts with you
Import from your phone or from Google, pick only the people you actually want, and leave the other nine hundred behind.
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Notes that are worth rereading
Keep what matters about someone: what they are going through, what they told you last time, what to ask about next.
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Archive without losing anyone
People move in and out of your life. Archiving someone keeps the history and stops the reminders, with no deletion and no judgement.
The nudge
One reminder, on your terms
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Quiet hours
Nothing arrives while you are asleep, or during whatever hours you would rather keep to yourself.
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Pause the whole thing
Busy week, hard month, holiday. Pause reminders entirely and pick them back up whenever. Nothing accumulates while you are away.
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No escalation, ever
Ignore a reminder and it does not come back louder. There is no second notice, no badge count climbing, no weekly summary of your failures.
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A word before a birthday
You hear about a birthday the day before, not on the morning of it, because a birthday you find out about on the day is a deadline rather than a chance to do something. Free on every plan.
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Today, at a glance
One screen that answers one question: who would be glad to hear from you today? When the answer is nobody, it tells you that you are all caught up.
The moment it works
Log it in one tap
You called, you texted, you had coffee. Tap once. Grab a Seat marks it, celebrates it, and recalculates quietly in the background.
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Every time, not just the first
The celebration is not a first-run trick that wears off. Reaching out is the whole point of the app, so it gets acknowledged every single time.
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A history you can look back on
See when you last spoke and what you noted. Useful before you call, and quietly lovely to scroll through.
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Nothing to catch up on
Missed reach-outs are not stored as debt, because they are not tracked as debt. There is no backlog to clear.
The paid plans
What money buys, and what it does not
It does not buy room. Every plan holds as many people as you want, because charging for headcount would have charged you for the thing this app exists to fix. What the paid plans sell is depth: more of the story, more of the detail, and help choosing who to call.
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The whole story Enhanced
Every note you have saved about a person, kept as long as you keep them. A free account sees the most recent one, which is usually the note you wanted.
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Twice a year, or once Enhanced
The slower rhythms, for the people you genuinely see once or twice a year and would still rather not lose.
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Grab a chair Premium
Tell it how long you have and it hands back a few people and a reason for each one. A reason names the friendship or its rhythm, never a gap.
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The dates that matter Premium
Anniversaries and the other days worth remembering, heard about in time to plan. Birthdays are not in here: those are free for everyone.
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What you know about them Premium
The details that make a conversation easy to pick back up, kept on the person rather than in your head.
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Your own circles Premium
Name each circle and choose how many people it holds, so the shape matches how you actually think about the people in it.
Prices and what happens if you cancel are in the FAQ.
Underneath
Local-first, which you can feel
Your data is stored on your phone and the app reads from there. That is an architectural choice with an everyday consequence: no spinner while a server answers, and no dead app when it cannot.
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Usable offline, once signed in
Every screen works with no signal, including adding people and logging reach-outs. Changes sync when you are back. The first sign-in needs a connection.
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Backed up, not held hostage
Syncing exists so a lost phone is not a lost history. The app does not stop working if the server does.
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Yours to take
Export everything as JSON whenever you like. No request form, no waiting period, no asking us.