Drift: Message in a Bottle
iOS app by Jason McBride. Games · Jason McBride
- Store rating
- 0 / 5
- Store rating count
- 0
- Download price
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
- Unknown
- Version
- 1.0.2
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-14
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Write a message. Seal it in a bottle. Throw it in the water. Then wait. Your bottle doesn't go into a database — it goes into the actual world. It drifts on real currents, gets pushed off course by real storms, and takes real months to get anywhere. A bottle released off Nova Scotia might reach Ireland by spring. It might also spend a winter going nowhere in the North Atlantic, because that is what the weather did. One day it washes ashore, and a stranger picks it up. YOU DO NOT NEED AN OCEAN Rivers and lakes count. Drift knows three hundred navigable lakes and the rivers between them, so a bottle can leave a pier on Lake Superior, work its way down the St Marys River, and be picked up by someone in another country entirely. If there is water near you, you can send a bottle. If there isn't, Drift will tell you honestly rather than pretending. A DIFFERENT KIND OF SOCIAL Drift has no feed, no followers, no profiles, and no chat. You cannot message the person who found your bottle. You cannot look them up. You follow bottles, not people. What you get instead is a passport: every storm, every current, every country, every pair of hands, written down in the order it happened. A bottle can cross an ocean and pass through a dozen sets of hands before it stops. You can read all of it. SHOW SOMEONE WHERE IT WENT Every bottle has a page you can send to anyone: the chart of its route, the storms it met, the coasts it passed, the borders it crossed. Whoever you send it to doesn't need Drift to open it. What your message says isn't on that page. That stays between you and whoever finds the bottle. WALK DOWN TO THE SHORE Once in a while, something washes up. Most days nothing does — that is the design, not a bug. When one is there, you pull the cork, read what a stranger wrote, and decide what happens next: add a line and send it on, or carry it with you and release it somewhere new. A bottle you carry to another coast picks up your journey too. Finding is always free. It always will be. REAL WEATHER, REAL WATER Bottles move on live forecasts and real current data — ocean gyres at sea, wind and flow on a lake. The shore you stand on shows the weather and the time of day where you actually are: sun low over the water at dusk, moonlight broken across it at night, heavier surf when it's rough out. When a passport says a storm pushed your bottle 93 km off course, that storm happened. BUILT TO BE KIND No exact location is ever stored or shown. Positions are deliberately blurred to about a kilometre before they leave your phone, and blurred again before anyone else sees them. Your name is invented — nobody sees who you are. Messages are screened, reportable, and reviewed by a person. You can block and mute. WHAT IT COSTS Sending a bottle costs one bottle. You start with one, and packs are available if you want to send more. Finding, reading, adding to, and carrying bottles is free and unlimited. No ads. No tracking. No subscription.
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