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Turn a photo into a postcard, and send it the long way.

Write a few lines on the back and choose a friend in another city. The farther it goes, the longer it takes to arrive.

Launch date: October 23, 2026
Devices: iPhone and iPhone Duo
Requires: iOS 18 or later
Price: Free

Download on the App Store Visit the FarNote website →

At a glance

From your photo to their letterbox.

FarNote is a desk under a window. At home, the window looks out on home. When you travel, it looks out on wherever you are.

Turn your photos into postcards. Today’s view, for someone far away.

A few lines. A stamp. A friend. No address needed. Just drop it in the postbox.

Distance you can feel. Oceans apart or one town over, the farther it goes, the longer it takes.

One morning, it’s in their letterbox. And postcards from far away land in yours.

A window on wherever you are. Every place you write from has its own view.

How it works, on our website →

Designed for iPhone Duo

Unfold it, and the desk spreads out.

FarNote 1.0 was made for iPhone Duo from the start. Open it and you’re at the same desk, with room for everything on it.

The desk on the unfolded iPhone Duo, held sideways: a wide window onto Kawaguchiko with its red postbox, a ticket in the slot below, the Postcards and Stamps drawers, and Write on its own beside the tabs. — The window, wide open
The view runs the width of the screen with the postbox in it. The card on its way waits in its slot, and Write stands on its own beside the tabs.

The back of a postcard on the unfolded iPhone Duo: the message on the left of the fold, the stamp and the friend’s name and city on the right. — The whole back at once
The fold runs between your message and the address, like the line printed down a real postcard.

The desk at home in San Francisco on the unfolded iPhone Duo: a garden behind a picket fence, the green letterbox open with a card inside, a card to Mia on its way in the slot, and a badge on Postcards. — When one arrives
At home, the window looks out on your garden. When a card comes, the letterbox door drops open with the card inside.

VoiceOver can post and open cards with actions instead of gestures, and motion follows Reduce Motion.

Our story

It started on a trip to Hokkaido.

A few years back, I spent a few days in Hokkaido and promised a dozen friends a postcard each. The days were packed. By the last evening I was exhausted, and none of the cards in the souvenir shops felt like mine. I bought them anyway and sat up writing until 3 a.m., because I wanted them posted from there before I left.

I’ve sent friends a lot of postcards over the years, and they’ve sent me plenty back. But once a postcard arrives, it tends to end up in a drawer. The ones I’ve been sent are at home, or tucked away in different places, and when I’m away I can’t look at any of them.

So I began to wonder about something that could hold the real moment, the view I wanted to share right then, with a few lines added, sent to the people I’d thought of. That felt more like me than a card I didn’t love from a gift shop. And it could be written whenever there was a minute: on the train out of town, at the gate, waiting for dinner. No hunting for a postbox, no staying up until 3 a.m.

It still goes the long way, over mountains and across oceans. And what makes a postcard matter, the postmark from where you were and the thought behind it, is kept. My friends won’t lose mine, and I won’t lose theirs.

FarNote isn’t meant to replace paper postcards. It carries them further: to more people, more places, and the long stretches between visits. Wherever we travel, work or live, we can keep writing to the people we love, or to someone we’ve never met on the other side of the world, and catch a glimpse of their day.

That’s all a FarNote is: a note from afar, to you or from you.

— Ray, who makes FarNote with Yujia