- Type
- Widget app
- Status
- Coming soon
MESSAGEBOARD
Remember the departure boards at old train stations, letters flicking into place? MessageBoard puts one on your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro, and fills it with quotes, jokes, fun facts and moments from history - fresh on the hour, every few hours or once a day.
What's on the board
Stoic wisdom and a well-timed pun. A fact for the dinner table, a moment from history, a breath before your next meeting. There are about 6,000 messages in every language - pick the categories you love and your board takes it from there.
- Stoic Philosophy: Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. - Seneca
- Jokes: I can't believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off. I guess my days were numbered.
- Fun Facts: The Sahara Desert was once a lush, green landscape with lakes and rivers. Rock art from about 10,000 years ago depicts hippos and cattle herds.
- Motivational: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu
- On This Day: On this day in 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick announced their discovery of the structure of DNA.
- Mindfulness: Stillness is not the absence of activity. It is the presence of peace. You can be still even in a busy room if your inner world is quiet and settled.
- Nature & Science: The Fibonacci sequence appears throughout nature, from the spiral arrangement of sunflower seeds to the branching patterns of trees.
- Affirmations: I trust the creative process and allow myself to explore, experiment, and play without the pressure of producing something perfect every time.
- Programming: Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever. - Dan Kaminsky
Made for your Home Screen
Medium and large widgets for your Home Screen, and Lock Screen widgets that sit just under the clock. Give each one its own categories, its own rhythm - every hour, every 4 or 12 hours, or once a day - and its own look.
- Dark, Light, Auto and Glass themes
- Every widget keeps its own categories and schedule
- Tap the board to open that message in the app
A little note, once a day
Pick a time and Daily Message sends you one message a day, dressed for the occasion - A Stoic Thought, Today's Wonder, Your Daily Joke. There's a button for another when one isn't enough, and a heart to keep the good ones.
8:00
Bill Buxton
Iteration is the mother of good design.
What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator.
Keep what you love
Heart anything that lands and it's saved to your favourites, gathered by category. Once you've kept five, your board can bring them back around - one in every three. And Recent Quotes remembers the last 20, for the one you want to find again.
Everywhere you are
On your Mac, MessageBoard lives in the menu bar and on your desktop. On Apple Vision Pro, it's a board you can hang anywhere in the room - try it in Glass.
- iPhone and iPad: Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Mac: a menu bar board, plus desktop and Notification Center widgets
- Apple Vision Pro: a split-flap board in your space
Speaks your language
English, Deutsch, Français, Español (España and México) and Português (Brasil), with every message in each. MessageBoard follows your device's language, or you can choose your own.
- English: Inhale calm energy. Exhale scattered thoughts.
- Deutsch: Atme ruhige Energie ein. Atme zerstreute Gedanken aus.
- Français: Inspirez une énergie calme. Expirez les pensées dispersées.
- Español: Inhala energía serena. Exhala pensamientos dispersos.
- Español (MX): Inhala energía tranquila. Exhala pensamientos dispersos.
- Português: Inspire energia calma. Expire pensamentos dispersos.
The details
- Platforms
- iPhone & iPad (iOS 17+), Mac (macOS 14+), Apple Vision Pro (visionOS 2+)
- Widgets
- Home Screen (medium, large), Lock Screen, Mac desktop and Notification Center
- Content
- 9 categories, about 6,000 messages in each language
- Languages
- English, German, French, Spanish (Spain and Mexico) and Portuguese (Brazil)
- Themes
- Dark, Light, Auto and Glass (Glass on OS 26)
- Price
- US$1.99, one-time purchase - no subscriptions, in-app purchases or ads
- Privacy
- Data Not Collected
- Availability
- Coming soon to the App Store
- Support
- Help and FAQ
Always private
MessageBoard has no account, no server and not one line of tracking code. Every message ships inside the app, so it works anywhere - on a plane, underground, off the grid - and your favourites and settings never leave your device.
Need a hand?
Adding widgets, changing the language, refunds - the FAQ has the answers. Or send a message and I'll get back to you.
Something worth reading on your Home Screen.
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