Split Flap vs Hourline

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.

Bring New York or San Francisco to your screen. Arrange Home Screen widgets, set a Live Photo Wallpaper of the city, then settle into Pomodoro Focus as its day passes. YOUR CITY, ON YOUR SCREEN • Style your Home Screen and Lock Screen with widgets. “Landmark Widget, Edge to Edge” and other premium widgets require Pro. • Export a Live Photo Wallpaper: the last three hours of the city's sky play as you wake your iPhone. Pro adds 3D. • See local weather free for six hours before and after now, along with the forecast’s update time. Pro unlocks weather for every city, hour by hour and for the next 10 days. • Holiday decorations dress the city scene for local celebrations, free for everyone. TIME TO FOCUS AND CONNECT • Pomodoro Focus is free: work and rest as the city's day passes, with a countdown on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Pro moves each round to the next city and shows the past week. • Compare world time with the time-zone ruler and day–night map. Open World Time’s Calendar to see events in your time and the selected city's; Pro adds each clock's daily weather. Event Alerts let you join a call or snooze an alert. • With Pro, Lock Screen Clock for the Weather starts when you open Hourline if rain, snow, storms or fog are happening or due within three hours. The Dynamic Island shows that weather. • What to Wear (Pro) dresses two people for the hour you choose and explains each outfit. MORE WITH HOURLINE PRO Every place and unlimited saved cities; “Another Place’s Weather on Your Wallpaper”; “Wallpaper Cards in Any Size”; 3D city scenes, including San Francisco and New York; city alarms (iOS 26+); holiday information and market hours; iCloud Sync; extra app icons and “Pro Complications on Apple Watch”. New places with their own landmarks, including Buffalo, New York. The free version includes up to six saved cities from the free collection, scenery wallpapers, many widgets, Focus, the calendar, Live Activities and the Apple Watch app. Places added since 1.0.1 require Pro. City Stroll (Pro after the first free exchange) needs iOS 26+ and Apple Intelligence on device or a model you configure. Day Brief needs iOS 26+ and Apple Intelligence; its text is written on device by default. Availability depends on device, language and region. Choose Yearly, an auto-renewing subscription, or Lifetime, a one-time purchase. Yearly renews automatically at the price shown in the app unless cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends; manage subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hourline.app/privacy