Common questions

QuipCast is a reflective e-paper picture frame that quietly cues a rotating mix of short, meaningful content throughout your day: the affirmations and habits you set, quotes and wit, quick lessons, factoids, and mantras, whatever you ask for. Behind the frame, the QuipCast service pairs it with a curated library, casts lines to the screen on the cadence you choose, and lets you bring your own. QuipCast LLC is the company. No wires once it's charged. No notifications. No glow.

From the Latin quippe, meaning an observation or indeed, a truth. The shortest modern definition: any compact piece of wisdom, wit, or fact worth a pause. We use it as an umbrella for 70+ distinct forms humans have invented to compress meaning, including aphorisms, koans, jokes, factoids, scripture, mottos, idioms, and more. See the taxonomy page for the full list.

QuipCast doesn't scroll. It doesn't reward swiping. It doesn't reward longer sessions or more taps. The frame refreshes on the cadence you set and otherwise just sits there. We tune to your taste, not to your dopamine. That's the whole posture.

People who underline books, screenshot passages, forward quotes to a group chat. The kind of person with a notebook somewhere of lines they wanted to remember but forgot to revisit. If you find yourself wishing you actually returned to the things that moved you, QuipCast is for you.

No. A notes app is for capture. QuipCast is for cueing. You can paste lines from your notes into your QuipCast library, and they'll start showing up on the frame alongside the curated content. The science behind this is called spaced repetition: short, recurring exposures are how language teachers, medical students, and memory champions actually retain things. QuipCast brings that rhythm into your room, on a passive frame on the wall.

The QuipCast frame, a 10" black-and-white reflective e-paper display. $299. United States only. Order with a Founders Club code to ship right away, or without a code as a backorder.

The personalized rotation of quips lined up for your frame. The QuipQueue is generated from your wizard preferences, your loves and passes, your BYO library, and your photos. It refreshes on the cadence you choose.

Sending a quip to the frame, the way you cast something to a screen. Hence QuipCast.

A QuipCast member who curates an original channel of quips that others can follow. We're building creator tools so Quipsters can earn a share of subscription revenue. Premium subscribers will be the first to apply.

$299 for QuipCast Compass, one-time. Every Compass includes two months of Premium, switched on the moment you pair the frame. After that, your frame keeps working on Free. Upgrading is up to you. See full pricing.

Three tiers:

• Free ($0): a daily classic rotation. Classic wisdom quotes, one fresh card a day, one frame. Setup help, FAQ, and Contact. No bring-your-own, photos, mantras, learning, idioms, reflections, or topic personalization.
• Plus ($4.39/mo or $39/yr): full library across 70+ topics (about 10× more cards than Free), including wisdom, reflections, nudges, affirmations, languages, learning, Words Worth Knowing, idioms and expressions. Refresh up to hourly. Choose and weight 70+ topics. Bring your own up to 100 quotes or cards, and photos up to 100 / 500 MB. One frame. Email support.
• Premium ($7.99/mo or $69/yr): everything in Plus, refresh up to every 10 minutes, bring your own up to 1,000 quotes or cards, photos up to 1,000 / 5 GB, personal mantra builder, and up to 3 frames (extra $1/mo each). Email support.

Annual plans save about 25% versus monthly. Cancel any time.

With a Founders Club code, your Compass ships right away. Without a code, you can still order as a backorder; ship is about 45–60 days, and we show that window before you pay. United States only. Every Compass includes two months of QuipCast Premium, switched on when you pair the frame.

Yes, on the Premium tier (up to 3 frames per account included). Each frame can have its own personality: a family-safe kitchen frame, an edgier office frame, a meditative bedroom frame. Need more? Additional frames are $1/month each, easy to add and remove.

Not yet. Compass ships to the 50 United States and the District of Columbia only.

Three buttons along the bottom of the frame: Love, Pass, and Next. One press each, awake or asleep (any press wakes the frame):

• Love. The quip stays on screen (nothing visibly changes, on purpose), it lands in your Favorites, and we boost its author, source, and tags so more of that flavor shows up later.
• Pass. A fresh quip appears in a few seconds, this exact quip leaves your rotation permanently, and we reduce the weight on its author, tags, and topic.
• Next. A fresh quip in a few seconds, no opinion recorded, no influence on your profile.

Tapping the same button repeatedly counts once, and pressing different buttons together deliberately does nothing, so a curious child can't reshape your rotation. Holding the two outer buttons together for about 5 seconds opens the on-screen service menu; then press Love for WiFi setup. Over time, the love and pass signals refine your QuipCast more than any wizard ever could; review saved items and recent passes from your dashboard. Full walkthrough: Set up your frame.

Pass wins. That quip leaves this frame's rotation, and we stop boosting it from the earlier Love. Love it again later if you change your mind.

Exactly what you'd hope. The frame wakes instantly on any press and applies that button to the quip on the wall: Love records the love and keeps it up, Pass and Next paint a fresh quip in about 5 to 7 seconds. The frame keeps one quip pre-loaded precisely so a button press never waits on WiFi.

Hold the two OUTER buttons (Love and Next) together for about 5 seconds, then press Love. The hold opens a service menu with its options labeled on screen: Love opens WiFi setup, Pass erases all saved networks (with a confirmation step), Next goes back to your quips. A frame that can't reach any known network also opens its setup screen on its own periodically.

Yes. Passed items show up in your dashboard under "Recently passed." One click restores any of them to your rotation, and the associated weight dampening on the author/tags reverts too.

Yes. Every loved item lands in your "Favorites" tab on the dashboard. You can share individual ones, or set the favorites list to rotate on a specific frame.

No wires once it's charged. The frame uses reflective e-paper, which draws power only when the image changes, not while it's sitting there. How long a charge lasts depends on how often you refresh, from most of a year on a daily schedule down to about five weeks on the 10-minute Premium cadence; see “How long does the battery actually last?” below. Then you take it down, plug it into any standard USB-C cable for up to about 7 hours, and hang it back up.

Reflective electronic paper, also called e-ink or e-paper. The screen reflects ambient room light, the same way ink on paper does. There's no backlight, no flicker, no glow, no glare. Visible from any angle. Easy on the eyes, especially at night. Compass uses a 10" black-and-white panel.

Somewhere with good light. Compass has no backlight. Like a printed page, it reflects the light in the room, so it looks crisp in daylight or near a lamp and harder to read in a dim corner. If you could comfortably read a book there, Compass will look its best.

About 5 to 7 seconds from press to fresh ink. The frame keeps the next quip pre-loaded on board, so a press never waits on WiFi; most of those seconds are the e-paper display physically rearranging its ink, with a brief flash. That's not a phone screen, and it's part of why the frame runs for months on a charge and doesn't pull at your attention. Occasionally, if the pre-load didn't land (a WiFi blip), a press takes longer while the frame fetches fresh. For the deeper why, see Calm Technology and E-paper Explained.

Plug the frame in to charge. It joins your WiFi via a setup screen on your phone (no app required), shows a short pair code, and you type that code into your account at quipcast.app. Three minutes. Step-by-step walkthrough: Set up your frame.

Yes, that's our fallback. Every frame ships with a QR sticker that pre-claims the device to your account before you even unbox it.

QuipCast is an American company. Every frame is assembled in the United States: the wood frames are made in America, and the electronics inside come from trusted suppliers around the world.

Classic wisdom, original QuipCast writing, and the lines and photos you add yourself. Editors review what we publish. If an attribution is wrong, write to rights@quipcast.app and we will fix it.

A small portion of the affirmation and learning-card library is AI-generated under our editorial guidelines. Every AI-generated item is tagged as such in the database. You can opt out of AI-generated content in your preferences.

The QuipCast dashboard has a "Your library" section where you paste a line or import a CSV. They mix into your rotation alongside the curated content: up to 100 quotes or cards on Plus, up to 1,000 on Premium. Visibility defaults to private (only your devices see them). Your library only appears on the frame once you dial the bring-your-own mix above 0% in Preferences, anywhere from an occasional appearance to only your own content. How bring your own works.

One tap on the pass button removes it from your rotation permanently and dampens its author and tags for future picks. Done.

No. The frame has no microphone and no camera. It has no sensors at all beyond what's needed to know its own battery level and WiFi strength. It is, in your words, a dumb display with a battery and WiFi. If you'd like, we're happy to walk you through the motherboard and components, just write to hello@quipcast.app.

Your email, your preferences, which items you've seen on which frame, and your feedback (love/pass taps). We use this to make your rotation better. We don't sell it, don't share it with advertisers, and we don't run third-party trackers on the marketing site or the dashboard. Full privacy policy.

Write to privacy@quipcast.app from the address on the account and we delete it within 30 days: your preferences, your library, your photos, and your impression history. The frame becomes unpaired and can be re-paired under a fresh account if you sell or give it away. A one-click button in account settings is coming after launch.