Journaling app Palmsy offers fake likes from real friends

An oddball new app referred to as Palmsy allows you to submit to a social media community filled with adoring followers who solely exist in your creativeness. Whether or not used as a journaling app with a recent twist or a nicotine patch equal for social media dependancy, Palmsy prevents the actual world from ever seeing your “posts,” storing them on-device, offline and personal.

Palmsy’s App Retailer description says it “allows you to make little posts for your self.” And, at its core, that’s all you’re doing. As for why you’d need to do such a factor, individuals who have bother with typical journaling or mind-mapping apps might discover it a extra inspiring framework. Or, in case your social posting behavior has gotten out of hand (otherwise you need a break from it for every other motive), it might function a solution to wean your self off and provide the dopamine hit with out sharing something publicly.

One intelligent wrinkle from developer Pat Nakajima is that the app imports your contacts to generate faux likes from them. As pointed out by TechCrunch, Nakajima wrote on Threads that nothing leaves your system or is posted to your contacts, the app’s servers or anyplace else. “It’s simply fake,” he clarified.

If seeing faux likes from actual contacts feels a bit too bizarre, a current replace added the power to restrict the variety of fake likes your posts get. You can too set caps on how lengthy you obtain them, starting from a number of seconds to a couple days.

The app is free and iOS-only, together with iPhone and iPad variants.