Colours, measured
Pairs that
actually read
Real WCAG contrast, checked before you walk into a dark room.
Your phone, held high
Be seen from
the back row
Type it, pick two colours, raise the phone.
Hold up your phone and be seen. LookAt turns the screen into a sign with letters big enough to read from the back of a room — type a message, pick two colours, raise it.
Coming soon on the App Store
Free · iPhone and iPad · iOS 18 or later
No accountNo adsNo trackingNo network
WHY IT READS FROM FAR AWAY
Distance is won by letter height and contrast, not by brightness alone. LookAt sizes every typeface by cap height, so the letters fill the same share of the screen whichever face you pick, and it measures the real WCAG contrast between your two colours — it warns you before you walk into a dark room with a combination nobody can read, and adds a halo when the pair is genuinely marginal.
SEVEN FACES, ALL CHOSEN FOR DISTANCE
- Expanded — the widest strokes, and the best raw legibility
- Rounded, Condensed, Mono, Serif and Slanted, each for a different voice
- Dot Matrix — a stadium departure board, drawn lamp by lamp
MOVE IT, OR HOLD IT STILL
- Scroll long messages left or right, at the speed you choose
- Fixed for the short ones
- Blink, up to six times a second
- Mirror mode, for a sign read through glass
MADE FOR THE MOMENT
- 15 background colours and 14 text colours, plus 12 pairs already picked for visibility
- Up to 240 characters, uppercase at a tap
- Save 24 presets and bring the right one back in a second
- The screen goes to full brightness and stays awake while the sign is up — and your own brightness comes back the moment you leave
- Turn the phone for a wider sign
- iPhone and iPad
Inside the app
Pairs that
Dot Matrix
A departure board,
lamp by lamp
Not a font: the letters are drawn as discrete lamps.
15 backgrounds · 14 text colours
Loud on purpose,
not by accident
Seven typefaces, all chosen for distance.
Scroll · Fixed · Blink
Long messages
keep moving
Up to 240 characters, at the speed you choose.
Text size
Letters as tall
as the screen
Push text size to 100%: the letters scroll huge.
HONEST BY DESIGN
No account. No ads. No tracking. No network at all — LookAt has never asked for a connection, so nothing you type ever leaves your phone.
A note on what a phone can do: a screen is bright, but it is not a stadium display. In direct sunlight, or from more than a few dozen metres, even the best pair of colours loses. LookAt is at its best indoors, after dark and inside the crowd — arrivals halls, concerts, finish lines, school shows.
Hold up your phone.
Concert tonight and you want to request a song? Stuck in the middle of the crowd? Write it on LookAt, hold up your phone and be seen.
Coming soon on the App Store
Free · iPhone and iPad · iOS 18 or later