SlowLetGo

Some things are hard to let go of because they never change. The photo stays sharp. The letter says the same words every time you read it. SlowLetGo gives them what everything else already has: time. Choose a photo and how long it should take to fade, from an hour to many months. Then choose how it fades: • Crumble — it comes apart in patches • Erode — it smears and wears away, like a tape played too many times • Noise — grain creeps in until it swallows everything • Fog — it softens and pales into nothing Every time you open SlowLetGo, the photo has moved further toward grey. It keeps no copy of how it used to look. There's no undo and no way back, only the photo as it is today, a little less than it was yesterday. In the end, all that's left is a quiet grey screen. While you look, SlowLetGo plays Gabriel Fauré's song Les Berceaux (1879), sung by mezzo-soprano Anneliese von Koenig, and as the photo fades, the playback wavers more and more, like a tape on a failing machine. When the photo is grey, the music stops. SlowLetGo works best when it holds the last copy. When the fade begins, it deletes the original from your Photos library, so the fading copy is the only one left. What to let go of: • A photo of someone you've lost, or someone you've left • A letter that made you sad — photograph it, then put the paper away for good • A place you'd rather forget • Anything you keep looking at that keeps looking back First time? Try it on a test photo with a 1-hour fade, so you know what to expect. Private by design: SlowLetGo never uploads anything. Your photo stays on your phone, and the fade happens there. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Inspired by William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops. SlowLetGo is an independent app and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Basinski.