Two people on rooftops on either side of a bay at night, each reading a phone, with a thread of light across the sky between the two cities.

The room that follows midnight

AMPM
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A chat room for the small hours. It opens at 10pm wherever you are, and as midnight goes round the world it passes from city to city.

Enter the Night LoungeHow the night moves
  1. AKL
  2. SYD
  3. TYO
  4. CKG
  5. BKK
  6. DAC
  7. DEL
  8. DXB
  9. IST
  10. AMS
  11. LIS
  12. REK
  13. SAO
  14. NYC
  15. BOG
  16. MEX
  17. SFO
  18. HNL

One night. Many cities.

There’s one Night Lounge for everyone. Auckland is first into the night, and as midnight moves west the room passes on, through Tokyo, Bangkok, Istanbul and Lisbon to New York, San Francisco and Honolulu. Whichever city is furthest into its night is the one hosting.

Open
10pm to 3am, by your own clock.
Messages
Gone four hours after they’re sent.
Cities
Eighteen, from Auckland to Honolulu.
Reading
No account needed. Sign in from the room when you want to say something.
Each city sits at the hour it is there now, and the amber hand is yours.

Tonight

East to west

  1. Auckland
  2. Sydney
  3. Tokyo
  4. Chongqing
  5. Bangkok
  6. Dhaka
  7. Delhi
  8. Dubai
  9. Istanbul
  10. Amsterdam
  11. Lisbon
  12. Reykjavík
  13. São Paulo
  14. New York
  15. Bogotá
  16. Mexico City
  17. San Francisco
  18. Honolulu
A woman wrapped in a blanket by a rain-streaked window at night, smiling at her phone, a city lit up behind her.

Someone else is awake

The Night Lounge is the room everyone shares. There are others too, smaller and slower, and you can see who’s in one and what kind of night it’s having before you say a word.

Lounges

Rooms with a subject and a mood of their own. Find one in the directory, see how many are in it and how lively it is, and step in.

Browse the lounges

Gatherings

Name an hour and what it’s for, once or every week. People say they’ll come, and the room opens ten minutes before the hour, whether or not you’re there yet.

See what’s planned

Tonight’s energy

Every room reads its own mood from how people are talking: the questions, the long messages, the quick back and forth. Open it to see the night so far, and a line on how the room feels.

A hand turning the tuning knob of an old radio at night, its amber dial glowing behind rain-flecked glass.

Midnight has a frequency

Every room has music playing under the talk, from the house playlist. Press play once and it carries on as you move from room to room.

It plays even when the Night Lounge is shut for you, so you can wait for ten o’clock with it on.

Twelve skies to sit under

Behind every page is one of twelve atmospheres, and you choose which. The night sky has tonight’s moon in it. The orrery keeps the real time and warms between two and four. The radio and the record move with the music.

  • The night sky atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Night sky

    Tonight’s moon, in its real phase.

  • The radio atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Radio

    A tuning scale that moves with the music.

  • The candle atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Candle

    One flame, low in the corner.

  • The window atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Window

    Rain on the glass and the city behind it.

  • The constellations atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Constellations

    The Dipper, Cassiopeia, Lyra and Orion.

  • The whispers atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Whispers

    Lines drifting through a low fog.

  • The tapestry atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Tapestry

    Moons, stars, eyes and keys, woven.

  • The horizon atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Horizon

    Your sky, from evening to dawn.

  • The record atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Record

    A pressing, turning with the music.

  • The aurora atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Aurora

    Green and violet over the hills.

  • The tide atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Tide

    A low moon over open water.

  • The orrery atmosphere, as the app paints it.

    Orrery

    A clockwork set to the real time.

These are the app’s own drawings, rendered from its painters, with the radio and the record shown while music plays.

Two figures on rooftops across a dark bay from each other, a moon behind the clouds over the cities.

Someone left a light on

Come in for a while. Reading needs no account.

Enter the Night Lounge