Built in Apps

Built-in Apps

The companion ships its own library of ready-to-run apps. One tap on a tile runs an app; the App Library adds or removes them; and you can write your own.

⚠️ This page is a tour, not an inventory. The app ecosystem is always changing — apps are added, gain settings, and improve all the time, and this list is a snapshot. Always check the App Library inside the companion (Apps tab → App Library) for what your install actually offers: it is the source of truth, and it's where new apps appear first.

Badges: 🌐 adapts to the global Language (translated text, local date & number formats) · ⚡ has a trigger mode — it can watch for a condition and briefly interrupt the display when it fires · 🎞 animation (color frames) · 🎨 Matrix-panel-only — draws graphics straight onto a Matrix Gateway's LED panel and won't appear on a physical flap display · 🔑 needs an API key. Min wall is the smallest flap wall the app accepts, rows × columns.

Every app runs on both displays

Every functional app is dual-surface: the same app, off one shared configuration, spells its text on a physical flap wall and draws a rich panel view on a Matrix Gateway — adapting to whatever surface it is given, from a big 256×64 panel down to 64×32, and from a tall five-row flap wall down to a slim two-row one. On a Matrix-panel display, each app's settings open with a Show on Matrix panel toggle at the top — on by default; flip it off to keep that app on flap-style text. (The toggle only appears on Matrix-panel displays, and a playlist entry can override it per entry.)

The screenshots below are rendered straight from the app code with sample data — the Matrix view at four panel resolutions and the flap view at three wall heights. They live in the repo's screenshots gallery.

Matrix-panel-only apps

A few apps (🎨) drive the panel as a raw LED canvas — arbitrary graphics, free of the flap grid. They need a Matrix wall and won't appear on a physical flap display. See Writing Apps → Canvas apps to build your own.

Channels and quizzes on the panel

A channel or quiz app (jokes, quotes, fortunes …) shows as text on the flaps; on a Matrix panel it renders as large text beside a themed icon (the manifest's canvas_art names the icon — a clapperboard for Movie Quotes, a moon for Good Night, the 🥠 for the fortune cookies). A line too long to stay readable on a short panel splits across screens rather than shrinking the type. A quiz shows its two screens in turn: the question, then — after the page delay — the answer.

Advice

A random piece of advice.
min wall 2×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Animation

Plays a looping animation (e.g. a GIF), uploaded to the panel once and then run on-device from PSRAM — the companion can disconnect and it keeps looping.
🎨🎞

Matrix panel only — no screenshot yet.

Aquarium

An animated reef — fish drift and dart across the panel. Purely decorative.
🎨

Matrix panel only — no screenshot yet.

Art Clock

The time drawn in color art.
🎞 · min wall 3×15

An animation — best seen in motion; no static screenshot.

Aurora Watch

Geomagnetic activity (Kp index) with a severity color — will you see the aurora tonight?
🌐 · min wall 1×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Binary Clock

The time as a classic BCD binary clock — color flaps as bits, colors for 1 and 0 yours to pick. Seconds on a Matrix Gateway.
min wall 4×8


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

BirdNET

Live bird detections from a BirdNET-Pi on your network.
⚡ · min wall 1×10


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

BTC Fear & Greed

The Bitcoin Fear & Greed index, with a sentiment color.
🌐⚡ · min wall 1×1


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Calendar

Your next events from iCal feeds (Google, Apple, …), recurring events included.
🌐 · min wall 2×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Cat Facts

A concise cat fact.
min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Checker

A checkerboard.
🎞 · min wall 1×1

An animation — best seen in motion; no static screenshot.

Chomper

A Pac-Man-style maze chase the panel plays by itself — pellets, blinking power-ups, and ghosts that turn blue and flee when one is eaten, with lives, levels and a score that carry on forever. Drawn entirely with on-device draw ops: the chomper is a firmware 3.5 filled arc whose mouth opens and shuts as it runs, the ghosts wear poly skirts (older walls get a circle-and-triangle fallback).
🎨

Matrix panel only — no screenshot yet.

Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris facts.
min wall 3×10


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Comments

Latest comments on your videos.
⚡🔑 · min wall 2×10


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Countdown

A timer to a moment you pick (up to five at once). On walls five rows or taller, each unit gets its own row with a color bar of how much of its cycle remains. On a Matrix panel: full-width draining color bars. Optional seconds on a Matrix Gateway.
🌐⚡ · min wall 1×6


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Crypto

Coin prices, shown by ticker (BTC, ETH, …).
🌐⚡ · min wall 1×13


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Dad Jokes (quiz)

A question, then the punchline — a two-screen quiz reveal.
🌐 · min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Dashboard

Time + weather on one screen. On a tall wall (5+ rows) it drops both onto one dense page that spreads to the edges, instead of two sparse pages. On a Matrix panel: the full overview card — big clock, date, weather column, seconds sweep.
🌐 · min wall 3×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Date

The full date, laid out for your wall. On a Matrix panel: the full Date Card — big day numeral, weekday accent, facts column, year-progress bar.
🌐 · min wall 2×10


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Dog Facts

A concise dog fact.
min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Earthquakes

Recent significant earthquakes (USGS), color-coded by magnitude.
🌐 · min wall 1×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Effects

On-device panel effects — plasma, fire, matrix rain, flip-o-rama, clock, Conway's Life, and on firmware 3.4+ the audio-reactive spectrum analyzer and soundwall — rendered by the panel itself at its native frame rate, with nothing on the network. One app per effect the wall advertises, and each app's knobs come from the wall's own description of that effect (fw 3.4 effectDefs): speed, hue, density, or an Audio reactive toggle, exactly where the effect supports them — a future firmware effect or option appears with no companion update.
🎨🎞

Matrix panel only — no screenshot yet.

Exchange Rates

Live currency rates (ECB).
🌐 · min wall 1×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Forecast Ribbon

The day's temperature curve as a color bar chart.
🎞 · min wall 3×8

An animation — best seen in motion; no static screenshot.

Formula 1

The next Grand Prix & championship leader.
🌐 · min wall 2×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Fortune Cookie (channel)

A fortune without the cookie.
🌐 · min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Good Morning (channel)

A morning pick-me-up.
🌐 · min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Good Night (channel)

An evening wind-down.
🌐 · min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Harry Potter (channel)

Wizarding wisdom.
min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Home Assistant

Your Home Assistant entity states, one row per entity — renamed, reordered and thresholded as you choose, with a green / amber / red color flap for on-states and numeric bands. Automatic in the add-on; standalone Docker sets COMPANION_HA_URL + COMPANION_HA_TOKEN. On a Matrix panel: a grid of entity cards with device icons — and on firmware 3.5, a thresholded numeric entity's icon becomes a live arc-gauge dial in its band color.
min wall 1×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Image

Mirrors a picture onto the panel as a full-color frame — fit or fill. Leave the URL blank for a color demo.
🎨

Image on a 128×64 panel

ISS Tracker

Where the Space Station is — and an interruption when it passes overhead.
🌐⚡ · min wall 1×14


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Livestream

Launch-day rotation for a stream.
🔑 · min wall 3×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Lumina Clock

The time as luminous color — big anti-aliased digits filling the panel, in four treatments: Glow (a light-to-color gradient with a soft halo), Aurora (color flowing through the numerals), Neon (a bright tube-glow) and Minimal. Curated palettes (Amber / Ice / Mint / Duotone / Daylight, never pink), 12h/24h, a smooth seconds bar. The canvas evolution of the flap Art Clock.
🎨

Magic 8 Ball (channel)

Ask, and the wall answers.
🌐 · min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Matrix

A cascade reveal.
🎞 · min wall 1×1

An animation — best seen in motion; no static screenshot.

Metro

MBTA arrivals for your stop.
🌐⚡ · min wall 1×10


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Moon Phase

The current moon phase, with an illumination bar in color flaps.
🌐⚡ · min wall 3×10


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Motivational Quotes (channel)

Daily motivation.
🌐 · min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Movie Quotes (channel)

Iconic film lines, each with the movie it's from.
min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

News Headlines

Latest news from RSS feeds you choose.
⚡ · min wall 3×10


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

On This Day

Historical events that happened today — up to three per day.
min wall 3×10


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

One Liners (channel)

Quick witty laughs.
min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Planes Overhead

Nearby aircraft. Keyless via OpenSky; FlightAware / Flightradar24 / AirLabs / aviationstack with a key.
⚡ · min wall 3×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Precious Metals

Gold & silver spot prices.
🌐 · min wall 1×13


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Public Holidays

Upcoming holidays for your country and province/state — ten years bundled, works offline. Four layers, each switchable: public holidays, religious observances by tradition, curated cultural traditions per language-region, and a fun-day-every-day novelty calendar. On a Matrix panel: a desk-calendar card per holiday.
🌐 · min wall 2×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Quote

An inspirational quote.
min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Rainbow

A color wave.
🎞 · min wall 1×1

An animation — best seen in motion; no static screenshot.

Random Fact

A concise random fact — in English or German, following your Language.
🌐 · min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Random Spin

Continuous random flaps.
🎞 · min wall 1×1

An animation — best seen in motion; no static screenshot.

Rocket Launch

The next orbital rocket launch.
🌐 · min wall 1×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Sarcastic Fortune Cookies (channel)

Cynical fortune-cookie wisdom.
🌐 · min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Scoreboard

Live and upcoming games with team logos and scores, cycling one matchup at a time. Uses the same team / league picker as the flap Sports.
🎨

Matrix panel only — no screenshot yet.

Shower Thoughts (channel)

Mind-bending thoughts.
🌐 · min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Sports

Scores & schedules for the teams you follow.
🌐⚡ · min wall 1×8


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Star Wars (channel)

May the force be with you.
min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Stock Graph

A live quote — an index or ticker — in big bold type over its own price chart, green when up and red when down, with the day's percentage and a faint previous-close baseline. One symbol, or a rotating watchlist (a market board). Range 1D…1Y. Prices from the same source as the flap Stocks.
🎨

Stock Graph on a 128×64 panel

Stocks

Live prices for the tickers you follow.
🌐⚡ · min wall 1×13


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Stoic Quotes (channel)

Ancient wisdom.
🌐 · min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Sun Times

Sunrise, sunset & day length.
🌐 · min wall 1×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Sweep

A color sweep.
🎞 · min wall 1×1

An animation — best seen in motion; no static screenshot.

The Office (channel)

That's what she said.
min wall 3×15


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Ticker

A line of text scrolling across the panel, rendered on-device — a message you type, or a live news / RSS feed.
🎨

Matrix panel only — no screenshot yet.

Tides

Today's high & low tides (NOAA).
🌐 · min wall 1×12


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Time

A live clock. Optional seconds on a Matrix Gateway.
🌐 · min wall 1×8


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Time Since

Elapsed time since a moment — days without incident, days since launch. Live seconds on a Matrix Gateway.
🌐⚡ · min wall 3×10


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Trivia

Random trivia questions.
min wall 3×10


Matrix 256 × 64	Matrix 128 × 64
Matrix 128 × 32	Matrix 64 × 32
Flap wall 3 × 15	Flap wall 5 × 15
Flap wall 2 × 15

Twinkle

A sparkle effect.
🎞 · min wall 1×1

An animation — best seen in motion; no static screenshot.

Weather

Current conditions, a multi-day forecast with per-day sky words and color flaps, and AQI / UV / pollen. Keyless out of the box (Open-Meteo); WeatherAPI, QWeather or OpenWeather with a key. On a Matrix panel: the weather as a living sky scene (the merged Weather Sky) — a glowing sun by day or a moon and colored stars by night, drifting cloud, falling rain or snow — and on a big panel a full info column with feels-like, humidity, wind and a three-day forecast strip.
🌐⚡ · min wall 1×8