Set a prompt.
Reply with a number.
A Gatherer is a structured input with a type and an optional schedule. You create one, give it a name, pick a type (integer, string, and so on), and optionally set when it should fire.
After that it is automatic. Every morning at 09:00 you get a message. You reply. It saves. You never lose the data because there is no app to break.
All your messages.
One place.
WhatsApp, Signal, and XMPP threads side by side. Reply without switching apps. Search across all of them at once.
Per-chat features let you route specific conversations through task workflows, business plan commands, or automated rules without touching your general inbox.
What your data
tells you.
Gather tracks message-state signals across every conversation: delivery time, read time, reply time, typing patterns, and presence cycles.
Over time you get a real picture. Does this person actually read quickly and take a while to reply, or are they just slow on everything? The data answers it without guesswork.
I lost my phone.
I lost two years of data.
A phone broke. A fitness app I had used consistently for two years was gone. Not backed up in any way I could actually use. A journaling streak, gone. Numbers I had tracked and cared about, gone.
I wanted something that would still work from a library computer. Send a message to an XMPP address, log a number, write a note, and have it land somewhere I controlled regardless of what device I was on.
That is a low bar. We should not need a custom app to clear it. Gather is the answer I built for myself.
Not for everyone.
By design.
For you if
- You run your own server or are comfortable doing so
- You track habits and keep losing the data when devices or apps change
- You use XMPP, or are willing to
- You have messaging sprawl across WhatsApp, Signal, and XMPP
- You care where your data lives and want to actually own it
Probably not for you if
- You want a polished mobile app with a support team behind it
- You are not comfortable with pre-launch software
- You would rather not think about where your data lives
- You need everything to just work with zero setup