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For couples apart but close at heart

Stay close no matter the miles between us

Send photos and videos that appear directly on your love’s lock screen — surprise them silently, anytime.

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The problem

We've never been so connected and so far apart

Look at the phone of any long-distance couple: they have WhatsApp, free video calls, voice notes, stickers, statuses, stories, shared locations, an emoji for every mood. There have never been so many tools for being close to someone who isn't there. And yet, the feeling of distance has only grown. There's a reason. All of those tools ask for something: that you reply, that you react, that you be present. Every message is a small attention bill. At 10:38 AM on a Tuesday, when you're between two meetings, getting "what are you up to?" doesn't bring you closer to anyone — it just pulls you out of whatever you were in the middle of. Chats fill up with things to handle. Calls get scheduled like appointments. And affection ends up competing with all the other notifications on your phone for a tiny piece of your head. What's missing isn't another way to send messages. What's missing is a way to be there without interrupting. A way to show up without asking permission. A way to leave a small gesture waiting instead of throwing it into the queue of someone else's day. That's something else. That's presence.

How LockLove brings long-distance couples closer

Silent, instant wallpaper sharing

Send romantic photos or short videos that appear silently on their lock screen — no distracting notifications, just pure surprise.

Create with your own style

Add text, stickers, drawings, emojis, or GIFs to personalize every wallpaper and make your message truly yours.

Scheduled delivery across time zones

Plan your love notes to arrive at the perfect moment, morning or night, no matter where you both are.

100% private between just you two

Only your partner sees what you send — LockLove is built to keep your intimate moments safe and exclusive.

Scenarios

Perfect for every long-distance love story

Couples between Madrid and Mexico City

Share a piece of your day across time zones and feel closer until the next abrazo.

Partners living Spain and Argentina

Send surprise wallpapers while your love is at work or out with friends, keeping your connection alive.

Lovers in the US and Colombia

Express your love silently but powerfully on their lock screen—the moment they pick up their phone.

Stories

The ones who already tried everything

Irene C. and David O.

Sevilla ↔ Dublin · 1 hour apart

They had tried everything. A widget app with shared hearts. A WhatsApp group between just the two of them "for sweet things" that ended up full of screenshots. An app that counted the days for them and reminded them by notification how many they'd been apart, which was exactly the last thing they needed. With LockLove, Irene found out the magic was somewhere else. A random Thursday at 3:22 PM, David steps out for coffee in Temple Bar, picks up his phone and finds a photo of the Plaza de la Encarnación taken from the terrace of the apartment back home. No notifications. No ping. Just Irene, waiting for him on the screen as if it were nothing.

Vera K. and Gonzalo D.

Palma de Mallorca ↔ Mexico City · 7 hours apart

Gonzalo went back to Mexico after six months in Mallorca working remotely. For weeks they used a shared calendar widget so they wouldn't lose each other, but they got tired of getting "X has a new event" at three in the morning. Vera changed strategy. Now she schedules him a single wallpaper a day, no text, just a photo taken with her phone in the moment: breakfast pasta, the neighborhood at night, a neighbor's cat. At 10:47 PM Mexico time, Gonzalo looks at it from the couch before sleeping. It's the only stretch of the day when his phone isn't asking him for anything. It's just giving.

Tania P. and Samir E.

Granada ↔ Dubai · 3 hours apart

Samir works in hospitality in Dubai, with impossible shifts. Tania is a nurse in Granada, with shifts just as strange. For a year and a half they tried to line up video calls and almost always ended up with one of them asleep. With LockLove they stopped lining anything up. Each one leaves wallpapers when they can, expecting no reply. One Monday at 1:33 AM — Samir has just closed up the restaurant — he unlocks his phone and sees a blurry photo of Tania's hands holding a coffee, with four words written across it: "sleep. tomorrow I'll write". Nothing more is needed. He gets into bed smiling.

Reflection

The paradox of the message you don't send

There's a romantic gesture almost no one talks about, and it's the message you don't send. That moment when you think of your partner, pick up the phone, start typing, and you realize that what you want to tell them isn't a sentence. It's a feeling. It's the sky this afternoon, the coffee at this café, the song that's playing. And as you try to fit it into a chat, as you put it into words, as you hit send, something breaks. It turns into something else. It turns into one more notification.

Romance isn't sending a thousand messages. It's leaving a small gesture waiting, with no reply expected.

Messaging apps are wonderful for organizing dinners and resolving fights. They're terrible at carrying presence. Because presence isn't said, it's offered. It isn't sent, it's left. A flower on the bedside table isn't a message — it doesn't demand a reply, it doesn't interrupt, it doesn't compete with the ten thousand things filling up your head. It just is. And when you see it, you know someone thought about you before you knew you'd be there.

LockLove is built on that idea. It isn't an app for sending more messages: it's an app for leaving presence. When you schedule a wallpaper for 9:14 AM on your partner's Tuesday, you aren't interrupting their day. You're setting up a small discovery for them. No notifications. No alerts. Just magic. Bring your presence to their lock screen without asking for anything in return. Not more messages. Better ones. From Barcelona, with love, for those who already tried every app and none of them quite landed.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

How does LockLove work for long-distance couples?
From the app you create a wallpaper with a photo, video, text or drawing and send it to your partner's lock screen. It appears with no notification the next time they unlock their phone. No alerts, no interruption, no noise.
Can I send videos as well as photos?
Yes. You can send photos, short videos, finger-drawn sketches made inside the app, and collages with stickers and text. Everything appears full-screen on the lock screen, exactly as you designed it.
Are my wallpapers safe and private?
Yes. Only you and your partner see what you send each other. There's no public feed, no likes, no algorithm deciding what gets shown. Everything is encrypted and never shared with anyone else, ever.
Does it work if we're in different time zones?
Yes, no problem. You can schedule wallpapers in your partner's local time, so they arrive exactly when you want them to: on waking, on a work break, before bed. The time difference stops being an obstacle.
What's the difference between the free version and Premium?
The free version lets you send unlimited wallpapers. Premium adds scheduling to the exact hour, editorial design templates, animated effects and the full history of everything you've shared. There are no ads in either version.
Does it work on iPhone?
No. LockLove is Android-only because it uses a deep lock-screen integration that iOS doesn't allow third-party apps to access. If your partner has an iPhone, they won't be able to receive the wallpapers on their lock screen.
How do we pair our accounts if we're already far apart?
From the app you generate an invite link and send it to your partner however you want: WhatsApp, email, message. They open it, create their account and you're linked. You don't need to be in the same city or country.
Does it work in Latin America, not just in Spain?
Yes. LockLove works in any country in the world with internet. The app is built for couples between Spain and Latin America, within Latin America, and any combination of cities and time zones.
What happens if my partner updates Android or changes phones?
Nothing. They just sign in again on the new phone. The pairing with your account is preserved and the history of shared wallpapers lives in their account, not on the device.
What if my partner is offline when I send the wallpaper?
The wallpaper waits in the cloud and downloads automatically the moment their phone is back online. The next time they unlock their phone, it will appear. It doesn't matter if hours or days go by.
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