Route 1
Sunny Desk
Over the desk, past coffee mugs, candles and a curious cat. This is the free route.
Paper Post · iPhone & iMessage app
Write it. Fold it. Fly it to a friend.
Paper Post turns a short message into a tiny adventure. Write a little note, fold it into a paper plane with your own fingers and fly it to your friend. How the flight goes decides how the note arrives.
- 140characters per note
- 3routes to fly
- 5looks
- 12papers
- 0ads or trackers
Choose a route
Three ways to get there
Before launch you pick the route. Each one has its own sky and its own things to dodge on the way to the mailbox.
Route 2
Stormy Window
Out through the window into rain, gusts and thunderclouds.
Route 3
Night Sky
Across the dark by candlelight, with scissors waiting to snip a corner.
Write, fold, fly
A short note, and a short flight to deliver it
Write up to 140 characters on your choice of paper, fold the note into a plane and fly it there. The note always arrives, and the flight only changes how.
Fold it yourself
Drag to crease the corners and the wings until your note becomes a paper plane.
One-finger flying
Hold to climb and let go to dive through a short course on the way to the mailbox. You learn it in five seconds.
Every bump leaves a mark
Clip a coffee mug and the note lands with a coffee ring. A rain cloud leaves raindrops, a candle singes a corner and the scissors snip one off.
It always arrives
Three bumps and the plane crash-lands, crumpled but delivered. Your note always gets there; it just remembers the trip.
Stickers to catch
Stars, flowers, clovers, balloons, rainbows and strawberries float in the trickiest spots. Whatever you catch is stuck onto the note.
Your note shapes the flight
Write about a birthday and candles appear. Mention coffee and mugs turn up. A loving note fills the sky with hearts to catch.
Right inside Messages
Your friend catches the plane
Paper Post is an iMessage app. The note travels inside the message itself, so there is no account to make and nothing to sign in to.
- 1A paper plane swoops in, and your friend tries to catch it
- 2The note unfolds exactly as it landed
- 3They reply with a plane of their own
The paperThe pattern you chose travels with the note
The marksCoffee rings, raindrops, singed and snipped corners
The stickersEverything you caught on the way
The air-mail stampHow far it flew, and by which route
The streakHow many planes have gone back and forth in a row
Outside MessagesShare the finished note as a picture with any app, marks, stickers and all
A look inside
Paper, tape and doodles, drawn in code
Every paper, sticker and doodle in Paper Post is drawn in code, and its gentle music and sounds are synthesized for this app, each with its own switch. Nothing is borrowed from anyone else.
Make it yours
Five looks and twelve papers
A look changes the whole app, scenery included. The paper is the sheet you write on, and it travels with the note, so your friend sees the same paper you chose.
Cotton Candy and plain paper are free. The others, tinted here, come with the Full Kit.
Cotton CandyPolka dots over a bank of clouds
Mint GardenDrifting leaves over grassy hills dotted with daisies
Sunny LemonA big sun going down behind sand dunes
Starry NightStars, a crescent moon and sleeping hills
Wooden DeskPlanks with seams and grain
Twelve papersLined, grid, dots, hearts, stars, flowers, clouds, gingham, stripes, waves, confetti and plain
Private by design
No accounts, no tracking
- No account. You never sign in or create a profile.
- No ads, analytics or tracking. The app contains no third-party SDKs.
- Your notes stay yours. A note is packed into the message you send, or into the picture you share. It goes only to the people you choose, through Apple’s Messages or the app you pick in the share sheet.
- On-device only. Your chosen look, paper and route and your sound and music switches are saved on your iPhone and are deleted with the app.
- Offline. The app’s only network use is asking the App Store whether you have unlocked the Full Kit.
Between friends
A toy for the people you already text
Paper Post has no chat of its own, no feed and no public profiles. Notes go through Apple’s Messages, or through the share sheet as a picture, to the people you choose.
A plane may come home singed, snipped or crumpled, and the note inside is always delivered.
The Full Kit
Free to use, with one small unlock for the rest
One in-app purchase, the Full Kit, opens every route, look and paper. No subscription and no ads, ever.
| Feature | Free | Full Kit |
|---|---|---|
| Write, fold, fly and send notes | Included | Included |
| Opening the notes you receive | Always as sent | Always as sent |
| Routes | Sunny Desk | All three |
| Looks | Cotton Candy | All five |
| Papers | Plain | All twelve |
The Full Kit is a one-time, non-consumable purchase through the App Store, restorable at any time from the purchase screen, and it supports Family Sharing.
Somebody is waiting for a paper plane
Download Paper Post for iPhone, write a little note and fly it to a friend.