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Pew

A quieter way to explore.

Pew turns the public benches near you into a gentle reason to leave the house — to wander a little, sit for a moment, and notice where you are.

Follow the path or try a twenty-second pause

In development · iPhone and iPad · no store link yet

A watercolour painting of a dark green bench on a sandy riverbank, a church spire and small town across the water, a tree in leaf and yellow wildflowers.
somewhere to pause

i. The quiet invitation

You have walked past a hundred benches.

Most of them you have never sat on. They wait beside canals, in pocket parks and on the corners of streets you usually hurry along.

Pew makes them somewhere to go. Not a destination you have to earn, not a target to hit — just a small, kind reason to step outside, at your own pace, on the days you have the energy and the days you don’t.

no streaks to lose. no one to beat.

ii. The whole of it

Find. Sit. Keep.

Three small steps. That’s all Pew asks.

  1. Find

    Pew offers one useful next bench: somewhere new nearby, a stop you saved, or a familiar favourite worth returning to.

  2. Sit

    When you arrive, a short guided pause: twenty seconds, two slow breaths — four in, six out. Sound and haptics are yours to turn off.

  3. Keep

    The place blooms into colour and joins your collection. Your first visit keeps that bench for good.

iii. Try one now

Pause. Breathe. Notice.

You don’t need a bench for this one. Press begin, follow the flower, and let the page go quiet with you — the breeze settles while you breathe.

On a real bench, this is the moment the place blooms into your collection.

Ready when you are

Twenty seconds · two breaths

Watercolour of a bench on a canal towpath beside two narrowboats and a stone bridge.
not yet visited kept · canal towpath

iv. What you keep

Your town, slowly coloured in.

Every bench you sit on is kept in your own Atlas — arranged by what a place feels like, not only where it is. Go back to a favourite and it becomes a Familiar Seat, then a Local Companion. A gap of a week, or a month, never takes anything away.

  • By the river Familiar Seat

  • Canal towpath Kept

  • The bandstand lawn Kept

  • Up the hill Local Companion

  • High street Waiting

  • Harbour rail Kept

  • Cliff path Waiting

  • Autumn bridge Waiting

  • City lookout Waiting

Illustrations from Pew’s bench artwork, shown as an example collection — not real or surveyed locations.

v. From the field journal

A look inside.

App Store artwork prepared for Pew’s first release. Pew is still in development.

  • Pew: Discover a little more every day.
  • A walk with somewhere to pause: nearby seats, green spaces and quiet corners.
  • A trail waiting around the corner: follow a trail to explore and rest.
  • Everything for today’s walk in one place, with the weather before you go.
  • Pause. Breathe. Notice: a guided pause on the bench.
  • Every corner of your town counted: track what you have found and what is left.
  • Collect and earn badges as you explore.
  • Every bench has a reason to visit.

vi. Made gently, on purpose

Time is the luxury.

  • Nothing shouts

    Slow transitions and plenty of space. Nothing flashes, and nothing counts down at you.

  • No pressure to return

    No streaks to lose, no leaderboards and no nagging. Stopping is always allowed.

  • Yours, on your phone

    No account to start. Your visits, notes and photos stay in Pew on your device — Pew doesn’t upload them. Read the privacy notice.

  • Comfortable by default

    Reduce Motion, quieter feedback and optional sound and haptics, with Dynamic Type and VoiceOver throughout.

Pew's riverside bench by day: a green bench on a sandy bank, a church spire and town across the water, and a tree in leaf.

vii. Any hour

Whenever you have a moment.

  1. early morning A quiet start nearby.
  2. daytime A pause, close by.
  3. evening Somewhere to slow down.
  4. night Still open, still quiet.

Pew’s own dawn, day, dusk and night paintings of the same bench.

The same riverside bench at dusk: an orange and violet sky, lit windows across the water, the tree in silhouette.

viii. Later

The bench will still be there tomorrow.

Pew is being made for iPhone and iPad. It isn’t on the App Store yet; when it is, it will be here first.

Status
In development
Made for
iPhone and iPad · iOS/iPadOS 17 or later
Price
Not announced
Store
No public store link

Pew supports calm exploration and reflection. It does not diagnose, treat or cure any health condition, and it does not replace personal judgement about access, weather, travel or safety.