How to get her number when she's enjoying the chat but wary of apps

Her message is a mix of warmth and a small boundary. The warmth tells you the chat is landing. The lol and the "I'm just weird about apps" tell you she's mentally keeping a distance from the platform, maybe because she has had a bad experience, maybe because she simply doesn't like being on her phone in an app all day. Either way, she has told you she wants the conversation to move somewhere else at some point. She hasn't told you she wants to leave.

Read it as a green light with a condition. She's enjoying herself, and she's willing to step off the app if the step feels reasonable. That means you don't need to convince her the chat is worth continuing. You need to make the next place feel like a continuation rather than a leap.

Acknowledge the app comment briefly and without defensiveness, then offer the move as something you'd naturally do anyway. Keep it light and specific enough that she can picture it. Suggesting a plain next step, like texting somewhere you can both see the thread, works better than a vague "want to keep talking elsewhere?" That phrasing puts her in the position of deciding what elsewhere means, which is more work than most people want to do over a message.

Keep the reply short. Long explanations about why you'd like her number make it sound like a negotiation. A casual line that makes the switch feel low-stakes and that leaves her a clean yes or a clean no is what gets results.

Her number is information she controls, and she's already signalled she has a view about where her attention goes. If your request makes it hard to decline, you'll get a polite brush-off or silence. Build in an easy exit by not treating a no as a rejection of you. People who are wary of apps often give out numbers only after they feel the other person respects that wariness. If she doesn't hand it over, that tells you something, but it's not a verdict on the chat.