Nestlight puts the distance between you on both your lock screens — and when one of you finally gets on that train or plane, you both watch it fall to zero, mile by mile.
One number on both lock screens: how far apart you are right now. Never a dot on a map — Nestlight only ever computes and shows the distance itself, and sharing is off until you both choose it.
Start it when you leave; a live activity on both phones ticks the miles down in real time and celebrates when they hit zero. Reunions you can watch happen.
Set the date you'll be together next. The countdown lives on your relationship dashboard, and a packed suitcase appears on your island as it gets close. Widget setup guide →
Time-zone gaps become part of the texture — Ember, your shared companion, is bright gold when you're both in daylight and cools to a quiet red glow while one of you sleeps.
Photos arrive wrapped, opened with a tap. It's the daily "here's my life right now" that long distance runs on — without the pressure of a chat thread.
The distance meter learns your couple's own farthest-apart and measures against it — "closer than usual" means something different at 8 km than at 3,000 miles, and Nestlight knows which one is you.
Both partners turn on location sharing. Each phone occasionally reports a coarse position using low-power significant-location updates, the server computes the straight-line distance, and that single number appears on both lock screens. Neither of you ever sees the other's position on a map — only the distance.
The traveler starts "On My Way." A live activity appears on both lock screens showing the distance closing in real time, ending in a small celebration at zero. It only tracks during the trip.
Yes — set your next visit date and Nestlight counts down to it, on your dashboard and on your island, where a packed suitcase shows up as the day approaches.
Yes. Distance works between any two places on Earth, in miles or kilometers. Each lock screen shows its own local time — seeing "9:41" next to their "6:41" is part of the point.
Nestlight is in final testing and coming soon to the App Store — one pairing code, thirty seconds, two lock screens.
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