QuipCast™ · Compass

The wisdom of humanity, on your wall.

QuipCast is an e-paper frame for your wall with personalized, glanceable quotes, learning and affirmations to help you become your best self.

No wires. Months between charges.

Why we built it: the QuipCast Manifesto →

Compass. 10-inch black-and-white. $299.

$299. United States only. Two months of Premium included.

Have a Founders Club code? Your Compass ships right away.

No code? You can still order. That order is a backorder. Before you pay, we tell you ship is about 45–60 days.

QuipCast Compass: natural ash frame with a cream double mat and rust reveal
Sample QuipCast rendering
No camera or microphoneNo app requiredFree tier, no credit cardCancel anytime

The Founders Club

Order Compass two ways.

QuipCast Compass is a 10-inch black-and-white frame, $299. Every frame in this run is assembled by hand.

With a Founders Club code, your Compass ships right away. United States only. Two months of Premium included.

If you do not have a code, you can still buy. We take the order as a backorder and show the longer ship window before you pay: about 45–60 days.

After the included two months of Premium, your frame keeps working on Free, with one classic card a day. Upgrading is up to you: Plus is $39/year and Premium is $69/year.

So, what's a quip?

From the Latin quippe, meaning an observation or indeed, a truth. A quip is any short piece of wisdom, wit, or fact worth a pause. We use it as an umbrella for over fifty distinct forms humans have invented to compress meaning: aphorisms and adages, parables and koans, jokes and one-liners, factoids and verses, mottos and mantras, and the open questions that invite you to pause.

QuipCast™ captures, curates, and casts them. Quietly. On a reflective frame on your wall.

Explore all 70+ types →

How it works

1

Tell us what you love

A short wizard tunes the frame to you: wisdom or wellbeing, parenting or money habits, expressions or the film lines everyone knows. Topics, voices, and how often it refreshes are enough. Adjust any time.
2

Hang the frame

Pick a well-lit spot. With no backlight, Compass looks best where you could easily read a book. No wires. The frame charges by USB-C; how often depends on refresh cadence. It then runs reflective-only between refreshes. It joins your WiFi via a captive portal and pairs to your account with a short code on screen. No app required.
3

Three buttons, that's it

  • ▲ Love: save it, and show me more like it.
  • ▼ Pass: hide it forever, and show me less like it.
  • ▶ Next: just advance to the next quip.

Over time, those signals refine your QuipCast more than any wizard ever could.

A press isn't instant. The frame takes a few seconds to wake, fetch, and refresh the e-paper. That deliberate pause is part of the posture.

A taste of what rotates

Below is a live sample from the curated library, refreshed every ten seconds so you can feel what a dynamic frame is like.

QuipCast Compass: natural ash frame with a cream double mat and rust reveal
Sample QuipCast rendering

What makes it different

Taste-driven, not algorithm-driven

You tell us what you love. We tune to your taste, not to your dopamine. No infinite feed, no swipe-for-more, no engagement metrics chasing your attention.

Reflective, no light show

E-paper reflects ambient room light just like ink on a page. No backlight. No flicker. Visible from any angle. Easy on the eyes, especially at night.

Bring your own quips

Family mottos, mentor's lines, lyrics that anchor you. Paste them in. They mix into rotation alongside the curated content. Calibrate the blend yourself.

Your photos too, mixed in

Upload your most memorable photos and they appear alongside your quips. Not a backup, a gallery. You choose the ratio.

Multiple frames, one account

A kitchen frame that's family-safe. An office frame that allows edgier wit. Same library, different tunings.

Months between charges

E-paper sips power, mostly only when the image changes. How long a charge lasts depends on refresh cadence. See the FAQ for the daily, hourly, and 10-minute numbers.

Glanceable by design

No notifications. No haptics. No camera. No microphone. Glance up if you want; ignore it otherwise.

Built on the science of repetition

Spaced repetition is how language teachers, medical students, and memory champions actually retain things. QuipCast cues the lines you wanted to remember into the room, on the rhythm that makes them stick.

Simple pricing

Three tiers. Buy the frame once. Pick what fits.

Free
$0
daily classic rotation, one card a day
Plus
$39/yr
70+ topics, hourly, personalization, BYO
Premium
$69/yr
every 10 min, BYO at scale, mantras, 3 frames

Frame: $299 one-time. Every Compass includes two months of Premium, switched on the moment you pair the frame.

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Built for people who underline books

QuipCast is for the kind of person who dog-ears pages, screenshots passages, and forwards quotes to a group chat. The kind who has a notebook somewhere with lines they wanted to remember but forgot to revisit. It's for keeping those lines in the room.

Ready to order?

Have a Founders Club code? Use it at the shop and your Compass ships right away.

No code? Order as a backorder. Ship is about 45–60 days, shown before you pay.

QuipCast Compass: e-ink quote and affirmation frame for your wall