Split Flap vs Split Flap

Turn any screen into a beautiful signage display. Split-Flap Board recreates the mechanical charm of airport departure boards — then goes further with LED matrices, retro marquees, glowing neon, and cinematic text crawls. Write a message, pick a style, and watch it come to life. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Type any message and watch it flip, glow, scroll, or reveal itself character by character • Build playlists that rotate through your messages automatically • Schedule messages to appear at the right time of day • Add live feeds — time, weather, news, and stock prices update themselves • Use it on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV DISPLAY STYLES • Split-Flap — the classic Solari board, in basic and sepia variants (free) • LED Dot Matrix — crisp pixel displays with animated reveals (free) • Cyberpunk Neon — glowing borders that pulse, chase, blink, and hum • Retro Marquee — warm theater bulbs in any color you like • Galaxy Crawl — cinematic perspective scrolling • Word Matrix — dramatic letter-by-letter reveals, in light or dark • Background Image — your own photos behind animated text MADE FOR REAL PLACES Shop hours and daily specials. The Wi-Fi password for guests. A welcome message by the door. A birthday surprise on the TV. A countdown to your next trip. A dashboard on a spare iPad. However you use it, it looks the part. WORKS OFFLINE, STAYS PRIVATE No account. No sign-in. No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Your messages stay on your device. Live feeds only reach the internet when you switch them on. FOR POWER USERS Turn on the built-in local REST API and drive the board from another device on your Wi-Fi — a home server, a shortcut, a script. PREMIUM — ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER The Split-Flap and LED themes — and all core editing — are free. A single one-time purchase, never a subscription, unlocks every premium theme, unlimited playlists, Fullscreen mode, and the REST API. Buy once, use it on all your devices.

Turn any screen into a split-flap departure board. Split Flap brings the look and sound of a mechanical airport board to your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV — with one purchase and no subscription. MODES FOR EVERY MOMENT Clock — A flip clock with custom time zones, 12 or 24 hours and optional seconds. Focus Clock — A big, calm clock made for your desk or nightstand. World Clock — Up to eight cities at once, like a real departures board: LON, NYC, TYO and more. Weather — Today's conditions, high, low and chance of rain for any city, flipping onto the board. Message — Type anything and watch it flip into place letter by letter. Start from ready-made templates, add emoji, and share your board as an image. Quotes — Your favourite quotes, rotating automatically. Hide a quote or schedule it for certain hours and days. Syncs with iCloud. Music — The song and artist that's playing flips into view as your music changes. (iPhone, iPad and Mac) Timer — Countdown presets from 5 to 90 minutes, or a stopwatch. Big digits you can read across the room. Paint — 43 colour patterns, from flags to gradients, plus a pixel editor to paint your own. Put text over a pattern for a colourful sign. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN AND HOME SCREEN A Lock Screen flip clock with seconds that keep ticking, a sweeping minute ring and quotes on real flap tiles. Home Screen widgets for the clock, quotes, messages, timer and colour patterns, and StandBy when your phone charges on its side. A running timer counts down live in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV, each built for the device. Apple TV has a Top Shelf that plays the board right on your Home Screen. Mac has desktop widgets, a menu bar clock and a screen saver. iPhone Duo gets a Nightstand clock when half folded. LOOK AND FEEL 9 colour themes including Neon and Confetti, light and dark boards, and 10+ flip patterns — spiral, matrix, snake and more — that control how the board reveals new content. Bedtime auto-dim keeps it gentle at night. SOUNDS THAT SATISFY Three sound themes — Mechanical, Typewriter and Soft — synthesised to match the animation. Every clack lands at the moment each flap snaps into place. HANDS-FREE Siri and Shortcuts can show the clock, post a message, start a timer or switch modes. Send to Apple TV posts a message from your iPhone straight to the board on your TV. ONE PURCHASE. EVERY PLATFORM. One purchase unlocks premium on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. No subscription. No ads.