Tilde makes everyday things you can tap or scan.

• Link →A tap opens your website, your LinkedIn or any page.
• Book a meeting →Tap to book time with me.
• WhatsApp →A tap opens a WhatsApp chat with you, with a greeting ready to send. No more “text me your number”.

every use case →

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  Cards →The Tilde Card, a business card with a QR code on the front and an NFC sticker inside.
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  Fobs →Coins and tags for your keys, in Base and Premium, and the Special Edition: Retro handheld.
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  Home & desk →The sticky note and the grocery list for the fridge, the Wi-Fi coaster, the calendar, the Tilde Stand and the Stand Mini.
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  The app →Tilde for Android, which writes what each one opens, and puts your card on your phone.

Print a few, tag everything. Any phone reads them; the app writes them. Tilde is Android only for now, and your iPhone reads every tag.

• Scan: any phone’s camera reads a printed code. No app needed.
• Tap: an NFC sticker sits inside, under the tap icon. Hold the back of the phone flat on the icon, within 1–2 cm.
  • iPhone XS or newer: reads a tap with the screen on, with no app and no setting. A link comes up as a notification. Not while Camera or Wallet is open.
  • iPhone 7 to X: open the NFC reader in Control Center first.
  • Android: NFC must be on, and the phone unlocked. A link opens. A contact card offers to save it. Guest Wi-Fi offers Connect.
• Write: the sticker can be rewritten any time, through the plastic.
  • Android: Tilde for Android’s Write a sticker. It writes a link, your contact card, or your guest Wi-Fi. Notes and lists, and a package tag, are coming in the next app update.
  • iPhone: Tilde is Android only for now. To write a link from an iPhone, use the free NFC Tools app.
• What an iPhone does with a tap:
  • A link: opens it.
  • A contact card: if iPhone users will tap it, write a link instead (your website or a contact page): iPhones open links from a tap. To save your contact, an iPhone scans your phone’s code.
  • Guest Wi-Fi: an iPhone joins by scanning the Wi-Fi code.
  • A note or a list (coming in the next app update): a tap opens the note page, with no app.
  • A package tag (coming in the next app update): a page says what the tag is. Only its owner’s phone opens the package list.
• Which sticker: a round NFC sticker, 25 mm. An NTAG216 holds a full contact card; an NTAG215 is fine for a link or your guest Wi-Fi. Search “NTAG216 25mm round NFC sticker”.
• Anything on a sticker or a printed code is public: anyone who taps or scans it can read it. Write only what you’d put on a poster.

• Get the files: every model is free on GitHub, at github.com/tbutman/tilde-card: MIT in the repo, CC BY 4.0 on MakerWorld. Open a model in OpenSCAD’s Customizer, type your settings (your link, your colors, your icon), export it, and print it with the steps in PRINTING.md.
• In color: export a 3MF, not an STL: the colors are flush inlays, and an STL merges them into one plain piece. A recent OpenSCAD development snapshot keeps the colors in the 3MF; open it in Bambu Studio and choose the process again.
• MakerWorld’s Model Maker is the same customizer in your browser: you change the settings and download a 3MF that’s ready to print. The Tilde listings on MakerWorld aren’t public yet; when they are, each product links its listing here.
• You’ll need a 3D printer (a multi-color one, such as a Bambu Lab printer with an AMS, for anything in more than one color), PLA, and round NFC stickers. Each product’s What you need lists the rest.
• Printable now: the Tilde Card, the fobs, the Retro handheld (Base), the sticky note, the grocery list, the calendar, the Wi-Fi coaster and the Tilde Stand. Coming soon: the Stand Mini’s files, and the Premium handheld. Writing notes and lists from the app comes in the next app update.

No 3D printer? Ask a friend or a makerspace (most have one), or pick one up at the Tilde booth at Web Summit, Lisbon, November 9–12.

• print a card →
• print a fob →
• get the app →