Flip AssistantA flip phone that can look things up.
Weather, directions, two-factor codes, QR codes and answers to anything, on the phone you already carry. Speak the question instead of spelling it out on a keypad.
An app you install on the phone, not a texting service. Notes, saved routes and your codes keep working with no signal, and nothing runs in the background.
Try free for 7 days without a card.
What Flip Assistant does
Everything here is built for a screen the size of a credit card and a keypad instead of a keyboard.
Ask anything
Spoken or typed. Numbers in the answer dial, addresses navigate.
Two-factor codes
Import from Google Authenticator. Works with no signal.
QR codes
Scan any code. Links get summarized rather than opened.
Weather
Hourly curve, rainfall in inches, severe alerts first.
Directions
Speak the destination. Save a route to read with no signal.
Texted links
Reads links out of your messages and tells you what is there.
Notes
Dictate, then fix it with the keypad. Stored on the phone.
Built for the keypad
D-pad lists, number shortcuts, four text sizes, five color schemes.
The two things that send people back to a smartphone
Your bank wants a code. The restaurant put its menu behind a QR square. Neither of those can be solved by texting an assistant, which is why most people end up carrying two phones.
Import what you already have
Google Authenticator can export every account as one QR code. Scan it and they move across in a single step, with no retyping of secrets on a keypad.
Codes work with no signal
They are calculated on the phone from the clock, so they work in a basement, on a plane, and on a month you decided not to pay. A PIN keeps them locked.
Any QR code, not just codes
Links, phone numbers, setup codes. A link can be summarized instead of opened, which matters on a phone with no real browser.
Speak, do not spell
Typing a sentence on a keypad is the reason most flip phone tools go unused. Say the question instead.
"Is the hardware store in Liberty still open"
and a second later:Numbers dial, addresses navigate
A phone number in an answer is picked out and can be dialed from where it sits. An address becomes turn-by-turn directions without retyping it.
Answers sized for the screen
Short enough to read without scrolling, unless the question genuinely needs steps. No markdown, no preamble, no offers to help further.
Weather that is actually readable
Current conditions, an hourly temperature curve, and expected rainfall in inches rather than a percentage you have to interpret.
"Weather"
two keypresses, no typing:Free, always
Weather comes from the National Weather Service, which costs nothing to use. It never counts against your allowance and it keeps working even if you cancel.
Severe weather leads
An active warning for your county appears above the forecast, not buried under it.
Built for the hardware, not ported to it
Most things made for these phones are a website in a wrapper. This is not.
The D-pad is the cursor
Every screen is a list you move through with up and down. Number keys jump straight to a row, and the phone's own soft keys are labeled with what they do.
Readable at arm's length
Four text sizes and five color schemes, including a light one that stays legible in direct sun where these screens usually turn into a mirror.
Nothing runs in the background
No services, no polling, no wake locks. Closed, it uses no battery at all.
Works without signal
Two-factor codes, notes, and a saved route need no connection. Only new answers do.
Getting started
Start the trial
Enter your email. We send back a setup code as a QR image.
Install the app
Download it to the phone, or ask us to mail you a microSD card with it on. No app store account needed.
Scan the setup code
Settings, then Account, then point the camera at the code on your screen. That is the whole setup.
$9 a month
Or $99 a year. Cancel whenever you like.
Includes 150 questions, directions, and dictations a month, which works out at five a day. Weather is unlimited and never counted.
If you stop paying, weather and your two-factor codes keep working. Your notes stay on the phone.
Try it for a week
No card. We email you a setup code, you scan it with the phone, and you are running in about two minutes.
Start the free trial