Slipmatic

Press the key.Keep the slip.

Slipmatic turns your iPhone into a little printer for fortunes. Today's slip feeds out of the top of the screen. Tear it off and keep it.

Coming soonto the App Store Meet the machines
Star Orrery: a brass orrery with planets on a walnut base

✦ SLIPMATIC

Star Orrery

The Rabbit slip

For entertainment and reflection.

Pull the cord (or press the key) to print. Swipe the printer, or pick a colour, to change machine.

Five machines. One printer.

Swipe and the printer changes colour and machine. Each one sits behind the glass and is worked by hand: Western, Chinese and Thai astrology, a tarot card of the day, and kind words from old books.

Star Orrery: a brass orrery with planets on a walnut base

Star Orrery

Turn the crank

Today's reading for your Western sign.

Robo-Booth ’84: a purple retro robot booth with a big orange button

Robo-Booth ’84

Hold the button

How your Chinese year sits with today.

Tarot Table: a round velvet table with a fanned deck, a candle and a bell

Tarot Table

Slide a card up

One card of the day.

Paper Diorama: a wooden box theatre with paper hills and a dial

Paper Diorama

Turn the dial

Kind words from old books, each with its source.

Night Market Neon: a market stall with neon signs

Night Market Neon

Pull the cord

Thai astrology for the day you were born.

Every slip comes out as a little animal.

Tear one off and it stands on your shelf. Keep a few and the shelf starts to look like a collection. Try it: press the key up top.

A shelf after a week, for example. Slips you tear off up top join it.

Every machine keeps two secrets.

A hidden game and an easter egg, each with its own medal. Three medals a machine, sixteen in all. Mochi the Shiba minds the stalls and might drop a hint.

Mochi the Shiba, pointing

Play a machine once and I'll whisper where its secret game is.

A week of visits, for example

  • Star Orrery
    Star Joiner · and one more nobody talks about
  • Robo-Booth ’84
    Marquee · and something when it's shaken
  • Tarot Table
    Steady Flame · and a bell worth ringing
  • Paper Diorama
    Paper Rabbit · and a moon with a secret
  • Night Market Neon
    Neon Fixer · and a night that comes once a month

The printer does the holidays, too.

Write to Santa, print your New Year promises, and get a card of your year to share. Free for everyone, and your words never leave your phone.

✦ SLIPMATICTo the North Pole

Dear Santa,

For Christmas I wish for

  • A film camera
  • Snow, just once
  • Dinner with everyone at home

This year I was

NiceNaughty

Letter to Santa

Three wishes, until Christmas Eve. On Christmas morning, look in your stocking: Santa writes back.

✦ SLIPMATIC1 Jan

New Year promises

My 2027

  • Learn to cook my mum's green curry
  • Walk after dinner, most nights
  • Text old friends first

Signed, me

New Year promises

Write three, print them, then tick them off. The printer asks how they're going in February and July.

✦ SLIPMATIC2026

Year card

Your 2026, printed

Slips kept214

Days you printed160

Your machine

Night Market Neon

Your year card

From 26 December, print a card of your year to share. Yearly Plus prints the whole year, month by month.

Your birth date never leaves your phone.

Slipmatic works out your sign, your birth day and your Chinese year on your phone. To fetch a reading it sends only the sign, never the date, and nothing is linked to you. Your wishes and promises stay on the phone too.

No accountNo adsNo tracking

Free to play. Plus for your own stars.

Free

Every machine, every day

  • Every machine's reading for everyone, every day
  • The shelf, your roll, the secret games and every medal
  • Letter to Santa, New Year promises and your year card
  • Today's slip on your lock screen, and a morning nudge

Slipmatic Plus

US$2.99 a month, or US$19.99 a year with a 7-day free trial

  • Today's reading for your own sign, birth day and Chinese year
  • A Mystery Roll every month, with the odds shown
  • A gift on your birthday and at every festival
  • Weekly, monthly and yearly readings, and the Tarot Table's card of the day
  • Yearly: your whole year on one long receipt

Renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage it in your App Store account settings. Anything you've collected stays yours.

Supplies: printer skins, paper and ink to keep, each at a fixed price. Try them on before you buy.

The printer opens soon.

Slipmatic is coming to iPhone. Mochi is already loading the paper.

Coming soonto the App Store

Want a note when it opens? One letter a month, no spam.