A soulmate friend, or kindred spirit, is someone whose mind works like yours — you feel it before you can explain it. Kindredly looks for that in writing: you write a letter, and it lands first with strangers whose sentences move like yours. No photos, no swiping. Some become friends, some become your person.
both signed. names swapped.
only when you both enclose yours. or never — plenty stay strangers.
L. M. Montgomery's Anne Shirley made the phrase famous in Anne of Green Gables: the rare people who understand you without much explaining. A soulmate friend is the same idea — not a romance, necessarily, but someone who gets the way you think.
Kindredly is named for them.
You can polish a profile. It's much harder to fake how you write: how long you let a sentence run, where you pause, whether you ask or tell, how you end a thought. Those habits sit close to how you think.
Kindredly's bet is that people who write alike will find each other easy to talk to. So your letter lands first with the strangers whose writing runs closest to yours.
your words are your fingerprint →I have never told anyone that when my father was ill I was mostly relieved, not because I wanted it to end but because the waiting had a shape at last, and I could finally see the edge of the thing instead of standing in the middle of it guessing.
There are no profiles, no profile pictures and no swiping, and nobody is matched on looks or distance. You trade letters with strangers who write like you. What it turns into is up to the two of you.
Not from a photo. From the letters: the one you keep rereading, the one that answers a question you didn't ask. From the fifth letter each way, either of you can enclose your name, and it's swapped only when you both have. Then you're kindreds — what Kindredly calls two people who've chosen each other.
I have a message drafted since March. It says three words. I have edited it maybe forty times — mostly the punctuation. As if the comma is what's stopping me.
Curious what a stranger would read in your letters? The free writing aura test takes three short answers and names which of twelve writers you are, plus the classic writer whose sentences move most like yours.
take the writing aura test →A friend whose mind works like yours — someone you understand, and who understands you, without much explaining. People also call them a kindred spirit or a platonic soulmate.
People use both for someone who understands you deeply. Soulmate often means a romantic partner; kindred spirit usually means a friend whose mind works like yours. Kindredly is built for the second, and leaves the rest to you.
No. There are no profiles, no profile pics and no swiping. You trade letters with strangers who write like you. Some become friends, some become your person, some stay lovely strangers.
By how you write, not what you look like: sentence length, rhythm, whether you ask questions, how you end a thought. Your letters go first to the strangers whose writing runs closest to yours.
Yes. Fifteen strangers' letters on your desk a day, five new letters of your own a day, and no limit on the letters inside a correspondence — free, on iPhone and the web. First Class is an optional paid fare.
Anything else? hello@kindredly.io
write your first letter. It's an anonymous penpal app that matches strangers by how they write. Free on iPhone and on the web.