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Design Wave

Paint your message in the air.

A fan in the home stands at a night high-school football game smiles with her phone held high among cheering, face-painted classmates. Go Wildcats! sweeps along the arc of her wave in white letters outlined in yellow.

Type a message, raise your iPhone and wave. Your wave turns your message into a giant banner overhead for everyone to read.

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  • Free forever
  • No ads
  • No tracking
  • No account

Coming soon to iPhone See it in action

Skywriting you can hold.

No sign to make, nothing to carry, nothing to throw away. The banner comes out of the phone already in your pocket.

  1. Type your message.

    Then make it yours with text styles, animations, overlays and backgrounds.

  2. Raise it and wave.

    The same gesture you'd use to greet a friend across the street. Design Wave does the rest.

  3. Seen across the room.

    Big enough to read from 100 feet away (and farther in ideal conditions).

A banner plane in your pocket.

Not a big font on a small screen. Your message appears in midair, a banner ten times wider than your phone.

  • A woman in a stadium concert crowd laughs with her phone held high. We love you, with a red heart, arcs above her arm in glowing white letters.

    Say it across the room.

    From the crowd to the stage, without shouting over the speakers.

  • A man at a city marathon barrier cheers with his phone held high, surrounded by clapping spectators as runners pass. GO AUNT SUE! arcs above his arm in blue letters.

    The sign that fits in your pocket.

    Clear in full daylight.

  • Wedding guests lining a garden path at night cheer as the bride and groom walk toward them. A woman in a green dress holds her phone high, and JESS & SAM, with a red heart, arcs above her arm in glowing white letters.

    A send-off they'll remember.

    Their names, written in the air as they walk out together.

  • In an airport arrivals hall, a man in a rust sweater waits at the rail among a crowd, grinning with his phone held high as a woman with a suitcase walks toward him. MARIA arcs above his arm in yellow letters outlined in red.

    They'll spot you first.

    Their name, high above the crowd, from across the arrivals hall.

  • At a dusk rally on a library lawn, neighbors cheer and hold up hand-lettered signs. A gray-haired woman in a denim jacket holds her phone high, and Save Our Library arcs above her arm in glowing white letters.

    Nothing to carry in or carry home.

    No poster board, no stick. Change your message in seconds.

  • At a surprise party in a lamplit living room, a woman in a green coat stops in the doorway as friends cheer around the sofa. A man in a navy shirt points at her and raises his phone, and SURPRISE! arcs above his arm in yellow letters.

    No banner to hang.

    Lights off, door opens, and you're already waving it.

  • At a rooftop New Year's Eve party, a smiling woman in a sequined black top raises her phone among friends clinking champagne, with the city skyline and fireworks behind. 2027! arcs above her arm, each character a different color: purple, pink, red, orange and lime.

    Ring it in.

    Wave the new year in at midnight, wherever you're standing.

Your phone becomes a window.

Your banner can stretch three feet wide, but your phone covers only a few inches. As you sweep it overhead, Design Wave tracks exactly where it is and shows only the slice of your message that belongs at that spot.

Anyone watching sees a still banner hanging in the air, revealed one slice at a time through a moving window. Psychologists call this anorthoscopic perception, or slit viewing. It was first described in the 1830s.

Drag the phone across. It only ever shows one slice.

Make it yours.

Start with your message, then customize it. The preview shows exactly what your audience will see.

Style
Way to Go! with the Outline style.
Animation
Overlay
Background
Way to Go! with the Rainbow background.

Pick any font on your phone and any text color, too.

You are not the product.

Most free apps pay for themselves with your data. Design Wave collects nothing about you. No analytics, no ads, no ad tracking and no third-party code.

No account.
No sign-up, no email, no login. Simply open the app, type a message, and wave.
One permission: motion.
The app never asks for your location, contacts, camera or microphone.
Your message stays yours.
Design Wave never sends your message anywhere. There is no central server. The app even works in airplane mode.
As safe as your iPhone.
What you make stays on your phone, inside the app's encrypted iOS sandbox.

Waving at a protest? Read Protests and sensitive events first. Design Wave collects nothing about you, but anything you wave is public.

Free forever.

Type, style and wave as much as you like. No wave limits, no time limits, no ads and no nag screens.

  • A free effect in every category, to wave from day one.
  • Try any paid effect in the preview before you buy.
  • Make your design special with more effects. Unlock the ones you want one at a time, or get every effect including new ones as they come out with the Master Design Pass.

Be first to wave.

Design Wave is coming to iPhone. Leave your email and we'll tell you the day it's on the App Store.