Breaking up is hard to do — but there’s an app for that.
And if you decide you made the wrong choice, don’t worry, there’s another app that will help you get back together.
New Yorkers Jake Levine of Digg.com and Lauren Leto, the brains behind Texts from Last Night, launched the BreakupText and MakeupText apps to take the messiness out of some of relationships’ most uncomfortable moments.
To break up, simply answer a few questions — boy or girl? serious or casual? — and the app will spit out a lengthy text message detailing why the relationship is doomed.
Levine and Leto launched MakeupText on Monday after admitting they “feel pretty bad about destroying thousands of relationships” after BreakupText launched two weeks ago.
But the comical pair admits the apps aren’t meant to be taken seriously.
“We’re not really encouraging people to break up with people via text,” Leto told the Daily News. “It’s just a joke.”
To get in on the fun, download both apps from Apple’s iTunes store. The BreakupText app is 99 cents, but the MakeupText app is free for a limited time.
It works the same way — answer a few questions about the relationship you want to mend, and the app will craft a creative, apologetic text message.
Here’s one example the app produced:
“Liam, I can’t believe this happened, I can’t believe such a farcical object caused our parting. See, I stopped answering your texts after that night because something shiny caught my eye, a long and blonde thing, well — it doesn’t matter now. But upon closer inspection, which I know took longer than it should’ve, that captivating shine revealed itself to be merely a superficial gloss over a dull, old thing. Oh, please, give me another chance. I was an idiot and I want to make it right to you.”
Twitter users scoffed at the apps, chiding breakups and makeups by text as “lazy and immature.”
But Leto suggested the apps have a different use: “I think it’s much more of a funny prank to play on someone.”
