How to use Flyer

Open Flyer in the phone's browser — Safari on an iPhone, Chrome on Android. Nothing to install and no account, ever. The start screen plays the whole idea in a loop — a fist opens and your flyer rises out of it — with one line: Open your hand. There is your flyer.

Start loads the hand tracking (a bar shows how far it is) and takes you to your pictures. Check my device runs the particles with a scripted hand and says whether this phone will keep up; How it works opens the help first. Opened inside Instagram, Facebook or TikTok, the start screen says how to get to the real browser: the in-app one is slower and often blocks the camera.

Tap Add your pictures and pick one or more — a flyer, a release cover, a product shot, a logo — up to ten, as JPG, PNG or WebP. On a laptop you can drop them anywhere on the page. They are numbered in the order they will show: one each time you open your hand. No flyer yet? Use the sample flyer, a template with the date, time, place and event name to try it with.

Two choices for the clip: Show my face (the camera in the picture, or a plain dark backdrop while the camera still follows your hand) and Use my voice (the microphone on or off). Then Open the camera. Your pictures stay in this browser on this phone, so next time Start goes straight to the camera; nothing is uploaded.

Every time the camera starts, a short lesson runs on the live picture, one move at a time, each ticked when the camera sees it: Make a fist, then Open your hand — your flyer appears in it. Skip ends it for now, Don't show again turns it off, and Show me the gestures in the menu plays it again.

Hold the phone at arm's length or prop it up, keep your whole hand inside the frame, 30 to 60 cm from the camera, and face the light: a window behind you is the number-one reason a move is not seen. If no hand shows for a few seconds, a ghost hand reminds you.

• The power button, top left, switches the camera off altogether — the light goes out and nothing is tracked — until you tap it again.
• The menu, top right: Clip format, how it works, Show me the gestures, Check my device and privacy.
• The bar, at the bottom: a dot that lights while your hand is seen, the one-line hint, your pictures, record, and the camera and microphone switches. None of it is in the clip.

• Make a fistYour flyer hides in your hand
• Open your handIt appears, sharp and centred

Make a fist; then open your hand and the next picture puffs out of your palm as particles, glides to the centre in about half a second and settles, sharp. A fist pulls it back into your hand. Open again for the next one, in order, round and round: 1, 2, 3, then 1 again. Those are the only two moves; for grabbing, throwing and more tricks there is Magic.

Tap the pictures in the bar to open the Pictures sheet: up to ten, numbered. Tap one to show it next, move it with the arrows to change the order, add more or remove one. The order is remembered.

Record waits until there is a picture and the camera is on. Each take starts empty — nothing on screen until your first fist and open hand — so the first reveal is the first thing in the clip. Talk to camera as you would for any post. A take stops on its own after five minutes and is kept. The clip is 9:16 for reels; the menu has 1:1, 16:9 and 4:5 under Clip format. The stage is masked to the clip, so what you see is what is recorded.

Stop, and the clip waits on its first frame with a play button. Then Share (the phone's own share sheet, with the file), Save, Copy caption or Exit. Clips are 1080 pixels on the short side, MP4 on Safari and Chrome. Every clip carries a small bloomalizer mark in the top-left corner; the caption carries the link.

• Nothing appears on the open hand. Make the fist first and hold it for a moment, then open all the fingers at once, palm to the camera.
• The hand is lost. More light on the hand, the whole hand in the frame, 30 to 60 cm away. The dot in the bar lights when the hand is seen.
• “Dark room”. The camera sees too little light: face a lamp or a window, or turn a light on.
• It stutters. Run Check my device from the start screen; close other tabs; turn Show my face off for a lighter take. Opened inside another app, move to Safari or Chrome.
• The camera never asks. Reload and tap Start again. Only if no prompt ever appears: iPhone Settings › Apps › Safari › Camera; Android Chrome, the lock icon › Permissions.

Camera, microphone, hand tracking, pictures and clips stay on the phone, inside the browser; nothing is uploaded and there are no cookies. Hand tracking is downloaded once, about 20 MB. A recent iPhone or Android phone, up to date — Check my device tells you. Bloomalizer runs in your browser and works best in Chrome. Safari works too, except sharing a screen or a tab. Phones work today, right in the browser; an iPhone app and an Android app on Google Play are on the way.

For more tricks there is Magic: eleven of them, from objects you throw and a window between two L-hands to vanishing, lasers from your eyes and smashing the screen. For visuals to your music on a laptop, the studio: the same fist and open hand, over twelve particle shapes, with a projector output.

The Magic guide The Studio guide