Remember who you met.
Add someone in seconds — just type their name and a quick note. "Dave from the gym, has two kids, runs a landscaping company." Done. The app does the rest.
Later that evening, or at the end of the week, scroll back through the people you met. Let the names come back to you. Remember them.
Type naturally. Smart parsing separates name from context without any fuss.
Today, This Week, This Month, and All — every name you've ever saved, searchable instantly.
Evening, weekly, and monthly nudges so names don't slip away.
No account. No cloud. No tracking. Everything stays on your device.
Add someone hands-free. "Hey Siri, remember Sarah from the conference."
Home screen and lock screen widgets show who you met — no need to open the app.
Cognitive scientists call it spaced retrieval — reviewing information at expanding intervals is one of the most effective ways to move it from short-term to long-term memory. Landauer & Bjork demonstrated this specifically with name recall in 1978, and it's been validated in over four decades of research since.
By Name's daily, weekly, and monthly review cycle maps directly to these research-backed intervals. You're not just scrolling through a list. You're training your brain to hold on.
In 1978, researchers Landauer & Bjork tested this exact scenario — remembering people's names — and found that reviewing at expanding intervals dramatically outperformed cramming or re-reading. Later studies showed even patients with early Alzheimer's could retain names for weeks using this method. The principle is simple: review a name right before you'd forget it, then wait a little longer each time. That's exactly what By Name's Today, This Week, and This Month views are built to do.
"He calls his own sheep by name …"— John 10:3
I'm a pastor, and I meet a lot of people. I wanted to remember them. Not just their faces, but their names, their kids' names, what they're going through. By Name is the tool I wished I had. It turns out pastors aren't the only ones who feel that way.
Gabe Carter · Mulino, Oregon
By Name makes sure you do.
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