A pager for your friends. It only says one thing.
Tap once. Your friend's Dynamic Island lights up. You have five minutes before it disappears. That's the whole app.
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One tap. Loud enough to matter. Too short to annoy.
Not a text. Not a call. Not a notification you'll ignore. A wave is a five-minute window on your friend's Dynamic Island — and when it closes, it's gone.
"Hi." is underrated.
We made it a feature.
This is sarahj2.
You've been waving for 100 days.
Streaks are the part Pinky refuses to make polite. Every day, one tap. Miss it, and it resets. The number isn't a badge — it's proof that someone was there, every single day. And so were you.
Your profile has a wall. Your friends draw on it.
Every Pinky profile has a small square where friends can scribble. A cat. A heart. A dumb joke. It stays there until someone draws over it. There's no caption, no like button, no "who drew this?". Just a slow, communal fridge door that lives in your pocket.
"The most honest corner of the internet."
— us, right now
A canvas where visitors can draw with their pointer. Drawings fade every 30 seconds.
Seven waves. One tap. That's it.
You built a group — your climbing crew, your parents, the band. Big Wave hits that button. Each friend gets a regular wave. None of them know it was a group thing. No "seen by 7". No chat. Just seven people suddenly knowing you're thinking about them at the same moment.
Some emoji are more equal than others.
Pinky sells emoji in four tiers. Rare ones cost the most because rarity is the point. Your friends will know you paid for that alien face, that boxing glove, that $0.99 cookie. That's not a bug — that's the whole idea.
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Rare$0.99
The expensive ones. Aliens. Boxing gloves. Cookies that hit different.
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Premium$0.49
Next tier down. Still won't come free in the standard set. Worth a fifty-cent flex.
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True Friend$0.39
Named for the kind of person you'd buy one for. Still costs them nothing to see it.
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Other$0.29
The cheap seats. But paid-for is still paid-for.
Questions you will probably ask.
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Pretty much. One tap sends a five-minute Live Activity to your friend's Dynamic Island. No text. No call. No "read at 4:17pm". Just a signal that you're thinking about them.
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It disappears after 5 minutes. You won't even know it happened. That's on purpose. Pinky doesn't want to be another thing that owes you attention.
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Yes. But there's a 5-minute cooldown per friend, so you can't spam. Be weird, not creepy.
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No. Location sharing existed in an earlier version and we removed it. Pinky right now is just waves, streaks, walls, groups, and emoji.
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Four tiers. Rare is $0.99, Premium is $0.49, True Friend is $0.39, Other is $0.29. Once you buy one, it's yours forever — even if you uninstall and reinstall. Price depends on rarity, not beauty.
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No. Pinky lives on the iOS Dynamic Island — it wouldn't be the same thing without it. Sorry.
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No. Waves and wall drawings aren't private messages; they're ephemeral. We don't train anything, don't sell anything, don't look. Full privacy policy in the footer if you want to verify.
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One person who wanted a dumber, warmer way to stay in touch with their friends.