A typewriter with a send button.
There was a time when the internet felt different. Before algorithms, optimisation, paid placements and noise took over. When the web still had quiet, odd, lovely corners — places where you might stumble on a voice you simply had to hear more from. Brev is an attempt to build such a corner. A refuge where the pleasure of sending and receiving letters comes first.
Brev is a very simple newsletter service.
For people who want to write — not publish, not build a platform, not optimise, not chase likes. Just write, and send it to the inboxes of people who want to read.
Brev means «letter» in Norwegian.
The name is deliberate. This is a place for letters — considered, personal, yours — not posts, content, or a feed.
Amid the colourful racket of today's internet, Brev is a white, undisturbed surface. We have stripped away every unnecessary button and menu so you can write in peace. And the room is yours.
The letters you send are not ours, and they should not carry our stamp. Your words, your content, your voice.
When you press send, nothing pings aggressively in an app. It settles quietly in the recipient's inbox.
When they open it, they are not met with our design, flashing widgets or “read this too” links. They are met with you — reading at their own pace, the way you read a thoughtful, handwritten postcard from an old friend.
First night in the wilderness
The kangaroos keep their distance from the campfire, as if they know I am still new here. The sky over Australia is so full of stars it feels almost unfair to close your eyes — as if the whole wilderness is lying still, listening for whether you have something on your heart worth a letter.
“There is not a single person in the world who wakes up in the morning hoping for more emails with buttons, ads and marketing.”
Want to know more?
Yes, the internet is noisy. But even if there are enough emails, there are not enough good ones — written by people with something real to say. Still, you might hesitate before showing up in someone's inbox.
On Is Brev for you? we explain why we think there is room for long travel letters, chapters from a novel, or utterly obscure passions in people's inboxes. From you, for example.
Plenty of services will send newsletters for you — Substack, Ghost, Mailchimp and the rest. They are built as vast marketing machines with dashboards, statistics and growth strategies. Here is how Brev compares.
You have something to say. Say it.
Whether you have read four brilliant novels you simply have to tell someone about, whether you have watched the shop scene in Me, Myself & Irene for the fourteenth time — the one where Jim Carrey completely loses it — or whether you want to update friends and family on your adventures on the other side of the world: Brev might be exactly what you have been looking for.
Need a little more time? Browse Readfest — the magazine for everyone writing with Brev — and see what is already out there.