Don’t Ghost
The conversations that have gone quiet: the ones waiting on your reply, and the ones worth poking first. Sorted by who you’d actually hate to lose. No guilt trips. Okay, mild guilt. Homemade.
Don’t ghost the people you love.
Ghostie is a free Mac app full of slightly nosy little tools for staying close: a nudge when a thread goes quiet, a birthday heads-up before you panic-buy a gift, and your whole texting year as a story you maybe shouldn’t read at work. Runs on your Mac. Judges you gently.
Free. No account. macOS 14+. Tip jar optional and emotionally manipulative.
Little tools for being a better friend
Pick your favorites. Ignore the rest. Ghostie will not take it personally. (It will take it a little personally.)
Birthdays
Builds a list from people you actually talk to, not your entire Contacts app full of that one realtor from 2019. So you never miss the ones that matter.
Texting Wrapped
Your year in texts as story cards. Equal parts flattering and incriminating. Shareable only if you’re brave.
Texting Analytics
Who texts first? Who double-texts? The receipts, charted, for your eyes only. We would never tell Mom. Unless she asks very nicely.
EQ
A gentle read on your relationships, with tiny nudges to show up better for friends, partner, siblings, the whole circus. Not therapy. Adjacent to therapy. Cheaper than therapy.
Drafts
A calm place to write a text and sit on it, instead of sending something at 2am that becomes a group chat artifact forever.
Scheduled
Line up a text for later, poke yourself to call Mom on Sunday, or set a standing “rent’s due” nudge for your roommate. Future-you can deal with it. Future-you hates you a little.
Work / Personal
Files work threads away from life threads. Severance-mode easter egg included. Your innie would approve. Your outie still texts in meetings.
For the tinkerers (optional, weird, fine)
Want Ghostie to actually ghostwrite? Hand the keys to Claude or Codex and it’ll draft replies in your voice. Every one still waits for your approval: hold to send, like a responsible adult who owns a Mac.
That part’s for people who read READMEs for fun. Everyone else can just… be slightly better at texting.
The tip jar keeps Ghostie floating
No account. No trial clock. No features locked behind a sad paywall.
If Ghostie saves a friendship or two, buy the ghost a coffee. Or don’t. Ghostie has known worse. Ghostie once watched you leave someone on read for nine days and said nothing. Growth.