Give Near

Give Near is a quiet place to keep the things you have finished with, until you have actually dealt with them.

Photograph the jacket you never wear. Add a line about it. Choose when you want to come back to it — tomorrow, in a week, someday. That is the whole app.

Nothing here leaves your phone. There is no account to create, no server to sign in to, and no internet connection needed at any point. Give Near behaves exactly the same in airplane mode as it does at home.

HOW IT GOES
1. Add a thing. A name is all that is required; a photo takes five seconds more.
2. Say what you would like to do with it — pass it to a friend, take it to a charity shop, recycle it, sell it, or decide later.
3. Set a date if you want a nudge, or leave it as "someday".
4. When it finally leaves the house, mark it as given away. It moves into your history rather than disappearing.

PLACES IN YOUR HOME
Group things by where they actually are: the balcony, the hall cupboard, box three, the pile by the door for the charity shop. Each place shows how far through it you are — "4 of 19 sorted" — which is what turns a daunting corner into something finishable. Useful when you are moving out, and arguably more useful when you are not.

A GENTLE CHALLENGE
Set yourself a target if it helps: ten things this month, or clear the balcony by Sunday. There are no streaks to break, no badges, no leaderboards and nobody to compare yourself with. Pause it or drop it whenever you like — nothing is lost, and nothing scolds you.

YOUR OWN HISTORY
The archive is not a graveyard. It is a timeline of what has genuinely left the house, by month, by bulk and by place. Add a rough size to a thing and the tally becomes real: three large, seven medium and eleven small things gone this month. A year later it will quietly tell you what you cleared last September.

REMINDERS THAT DO NOT NAG
One local notification per thing, on the date you chose, with buttons to mark it done or push it a week. No streak reminders, no re-engagement pushes, nothing designed to pull you back in. An optional once-a-day review, if that suits you better. All of it is scheduled on your phone, by your phone.

WHAT IS NOT IN HERE
• No account and no sign-in
• No server, no cloud, no sync
• No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
• No location — the app never asks
• Nothing to buy, in the app or out of it

Your photos are copied into the app's own storage, so clearing your camera roll will not leave grey boxes behind. You can export everything to a plain JSON file whenever you want, and erase every trace with one confirmed tap.

English, Spanish and Chinese. Light and dark, and it respects your system text size.

Give Near is small and made carefully. If something is missing or wrong, write and tell us — we would far rather hear it.