Real letters, carried by pigeon.
The pen-pal app for children. Write to friends, cousins and grandparents, decorate it with stickers and drawings, and watch your pigeon carry it across the map. It takes as long as the real distance does, and it lands in a sealed envelope.
How it works
Three steps, and the third one is the best bit.
Write a letter
Words, drawings, stickers, your own handwriting, even a tune. Say it out loud if writing is hard.
Hand it to your pigeon
Follow it across the map the whole way. Overnight to a friend nearby, a week to the other side of the world.
Wait for the letterbox
It lands sealed. Open it, read it, keep it in your pigeonholes, and write back.
Made for families, not strangers.
Pigeon Post is for the people your child already knows. Nobody else can find them.
- 🔒A grown-up approves every pen pal with a PIN, and the other family does too.
- 🙅No feed, no chat, no strangers, no adverts, nothing to buy.
- 📍Only a town is ever asked for, never an address, and it stays hidden until both families say yes.
- 👵Grandparents and other grown-ups can be pen pals, always shown as grown-ups.
- 🚩Every letter has a "Tell a grown-up" button. A family can stop a pen pal at any time.
- 🗑️Delete a child's account from inside the app, any time, everything gone.
Things to do while you wait
A letter takes real time. There's plenty to do in the meantime.
Look after your pigeon
Feed it, bathe it, tuck it in at bedtime. It fills up with health as you go.
Collect stamps and flags
From everywhere your letters fly over, with a fact about each place.
Be yourself
Pick a face from 200 pictures, or build a character of you.
Wind down
A bedtime routine and a quiet breathing minute for the end of the day.
At home on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
The same account works on the web, so a grandparent on a laptop and a child on an iPad are on the same page.
Apple Watch
Letters in the air, open a letter, feed your pigeon, write back from your wrist.
Widgets and Live Activities
A countdown on the Lock Screen and a flight tracker on the Home Screen.
Frequent Flyer card
Your flying record in Apple Wallet, with a code friends can scan to become pen pals.
iMessage stickers
All 200 faces and every stamp, in Messages.
Questions
How much does it cost?
Nothing. There are no adverts, no purchases and no subscriptions in Pigeon Post.
What age is it for?
Children from about six who can write a few words, up to whenever letters stop being fun. Grown-ups set it up and approve every pen pal.
Why does a letter take so long?
On purpose. A letter that arrives in a day feels like post, not a message, and the wait is half the fun. A birthday letter flies express.
What do you keep?
A first name, a pigeon's name, a town, the letters between approved pen pals, and a grown-up's email for the account. Nothing is sold or shared, and there's no tracking. The full privacy notice is here.
How do I get help?
Email postie@getpigeonpost.com and a real person will write back.