Wherever your attention goes, your life follows.
A calm home for reading, writing, and live conversation. You follow the people you choose. There are no reels, no autoplay, and no noise.
The average person checks their phone 205 times a day. That is once every five waking minutes.
Reviews.org survey, 2024
Our attention on a screen now lasts 47 seconds, down from 2½ minutes in 2004. After every interruption, the mind needs 23 minutes to truly return.
Dr. Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvine
Feeds are engineered like slot machines, with variable rewards and an infinite pull.
Center for Humane Technology
Meanwhile, the tea goes cold, the sunset ends, and the people we love speak to the tops of our heads.
daah·qaad is Somali for “lift the veil.”
So we built the calm place we were looking for. A home for reading, writing, and real conversation. Nothing else.
What if an app respected your time?
Read in peace
Stories and essays from writers worth following. Made to be read, not scrolled past.
People you choose
Your feed is just the writers you follow. No algorithm decides what you see.
Live podcasts
Host or join live audio rooms. Raise your hand to speak, or just listen in.
No infinite pull
No reels, no autoplay, no endless feed. You come, you read or talk, and you get on with your life.
A quieter place
to read and write.
Stories worth your time, from writers worth following.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.