--- title: "Find a soulmate friend who writes like you · Kindredly" description: "A soulmate friend is someone whose mind works like yours. Kindredly looks in writing: no photos, no swiping, letters from strangers who write like you." url: https://kindredly.io/soulmate language: en updated: 2026-10-09 --- # Find your soulmate friend by how they write 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. ## what a kindred spirit is. 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. ## why writing gives it away. 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. ## not a dating app. 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. ## how you'll know. 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. ## find out how you write first. Curious what a stranger would read in your letters? The free [writing aura test](https://kindredly.io/aura) takes three short answers and names which of twelve writers you are, plus the classic writer whose sentences move most like yours. ## questions people ask. ### what is a soulmate friend? 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. ### what's the difference between a soulmate and a kindred spirit? 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. ### is kindredly a dating app? 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. ### how does kindredly match people? 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. ### is it free? 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. ## keep reading. - [your writing aura](https://kindredly.io/aura) — which of twelve writers you are. - [make friends online](https://kindredly.io/make-friends) — without the small talk. - [what is a penpal?](https://kindredly.io/guides/what-is-a-penpal) — the meaning, the history, why it's back. - [how it works](https://kindredly.io/how-it-works) — every step, and what's free. --- Kindredly is an anonymous penpal app that matches strangers by how they write. Kindredly · https://kindredly.io/