About Glowva

What this is, who is behind it, what it will not do, and how to reach me. The plain version — no pitch.

What Glowva is

A social app built around being heard rather than seen. You can use it like an ordinary one — share your day, follow people, message friends. Underneath that sits a quieter layer: anonymous writing delivered to a single stranger, wordless acknowledgement instead of likes, slow letters limited to one a day, and small themed rooms that close after a day or two.

The tagline is a place to write, connect, and be heard, and it is meant literally. If you want the mechanics, the home page walks through them, and the FAQ answers the practical questions — who reads what, how anonymity is kept from becoming abuse, and what happens to your data.

Who builds it

One person. I am Sonny, and I design, build, moderate and answer the email myself, through Glowva Ltd — a company registered in England and Wales. There is no team behind the word “we”, so I do not use it anywhere on this site.

The long answer to why — where this started, what I believe underneath it, and where I want it to go — is a letter rather than a page: why I’m building this.

Who it is for, and who pays

Anyone who wants somewhere less performative than the usual feed. In practice that tends to be people who write, people who feel a bit unseen, and people who are tired of apps that reward the loudest version of them. You do not have to be going through something to belong here.

Individual accounts are always free, and that is a constraint rather than a launch offer. The money comes from facilitators and institutions — therapy practices, schools, grief organisations, recovery communities — paying to host private spaces. The person who needs this most is not the one funding it. If optional extras ever appear for individuals they will be exactly that: optional, never a paywall in front of being heard.

Glowva is 16+ during the beta.

What it refuses to do

These are constraints, not features — things I have decided Glowva will not do even when doing them would make the numbers better.

No follower counts, and no ranking. The profile shows how many people felt seen by your writing. The number describes — it never ranks anyone against anyone.
No engagement algorithm. Nothing here is ordered to keep you scrolling. There is no feed that learns what agitates you and serves more of it.
Your writing is never sold. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone training a model. It is yours; I am only holding it.
No targeted advertising, ever. If sponsor cards ever appear they will be clearly labelled, never targeted at you, and never forced in front of you — no full-screen takeovers, nothing you cannot scroll past.
It is not a mental health app. Glowva is not therapy, not a crisis service, and not staffed by clinicians. If you are in crisis, please contact your local emergency services or a crisis line.

How those are enforced day to day is set out in the community guidelines and the child-safety page.

Company and contact

Registered company: Glowva Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 17114339.
Registered office: 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom.
Email: [email protected] — general contact and support. It reaches me, and I answer it myself.
Privacy and data requests: [email protected] — named in the privacy policy as the route for access, deletion and other rights.
Child safety: [email protected] — see the child-safety page for what to report and what happens next.
Telephone: +44 20 4634 1259. This is the published trader contact line; it plays a short recorded message and does not take enquiries, so email is far quicker.

The terms you agree to are in the terms of use, and what is collected and why is in the privacy policy. Both are public before you sign up, on purpose.