The free daily facts app · Two minutes a day
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Sharks are older than trees.
Facts like this, every day, picked for you. Free, and done in two minutes.
A headless chicken lived for 18 months. (Animals)
Your colour printer hides its serial number on every page. (Tech)
A conman sold the Eiffel Tower for scrap. Twice. (History)
Rats laugh when you tickle them. (Animals)
Tinned food arrived 50 years before the tin opener. (Food)
The Easter Island heads have bodies. (Art)
One bone in your body touches no other bone. (Human Body)
The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes. (History)
Two cities fought a war over a stolen bucket. (History)
Boston shipped ice to India for a living. (History)
A bear was enlisted as a soldier and given a rank. (History)
Time runs faster at your head than at your feet. (Science)
Toy Story 2 was almost deleted by a single command. (Tech)
Australia went to war with emus and lost. (History)
A vending machine was selling holy water 2,000 years ago. (History)
Astronomers aimed a telescope at an empty patch of sky for ten days. (Space)
A whole town danced itself half to death in 1518. (History)
Eleven days once vanished from the calendar overnight. (History)
The Parthenon contains almost no straight lines. (Art)
You almost certainly have mites living on your face. (Human Body)
GPS was deliberately made worse until the year 2000. (Tech)
A famous painting hung upside down in galleries for 75 years. (Art)
A lyrebird can imitate a chainsaw. (Music)
A tiny pufferfish draws two-metre patterns in the sand. (Ocean)
Today
Seven cards. Then it stops.
A hand-sized daily set, tuned to what fascinates you. Swipe through it, flip anything you doubt, and the day is done.
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History
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
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Animals
Squirrels pretend to bury nuts when they think they are watched.
Tap for source
Space
Some of the static on an old TV was the Big Bang.
Tap for source
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Swipe through seven.
Each morning a fresh deck lands: seven facts chosen around your interests, one swipe each. Three are free every day. Save the ones you want to keep.
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Every card has a back.
Tap any fact to flip it. The source and its credibility rating are right there, with a link if you want to go deeper.
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Finish the set. The streak climbs.
Seven is the cap, on purpose. Complete the day and your streak ticks up. Tomorrow's deck is already brewing.
Rabbit Hole
History isn't a line. It's a pile.
Sometimes one fact leads to the next, and the next. Tap the hook to reveal it line by line, then keep falling.
Fact 1 of 5
Stump
True or twisted?
Five statements. Some are facts straight from the app. Some have been tampered with, carefully. Ten seconds each.
Stump mode
Five statements. Ten seconds each. Real, or tampered with?
Want a new round every day? Play today’s True or Twisted
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Four ways to use what you know.
The daily set is the ritual. Around it sit four loops built for the people in your life.
Walk in with the right fact.
Pick the room. Five facts built to land in it, each with a line on how to bring it up.
Dinner partyFirst dateWork meetingRoad tripAwkward silence
Twist a fact. Send it. Watch them squirm.
Ten seconds to call it true or twisted. The link works without the app, and every answer quietly builds your friend graph.
True or twisted10-second timerNo app needed to play
Five questions. Twelve seconds. One winner.
Async trivia against a friend or a random opponent, drawn from your strongest topics.
AsyncFriends or randomsRematch
Every fact you learn lights a star.
A dark constellation map of everything you know. Dark stars mark the frontier.
12 constellationsFrontiersDeep dives
Rabbit Hole
A full-screen descent through the most surprising facts we have, one hook leading to the next.
Fact packs
Eight facts, each caused by the last. The Longitude Problem. Space Oddities. Deep Ocean. Your Strange Body.
Cosmos
Every fact you learn lights a star.
A dark map of everything you know, drawn constellation by constellation. Dark stars mark the frontier.
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An example map, sixty days in.
Streak
Keep the streak. Become someone.
Every day you finish the set, the streak climbs an eight-persona ladder, and each rung unlocks something you can actually use.
- Day 1The CuriousWhere everyone starts
- Day 7The SeekerStreak Freeze
- Day 14The StudentTime-travel mode
- Day 30The ExplorerCustom delivery minute
- Day 60The Scholar2 Freezes a month
- Day 100The SageSubmit your fact
- Day 200The OraclePremium share templates
- Day 365The SavantLifetime recognition
Miss a day? A Streak Freeze has you. You earn the first one at day seven.
Free plan
Free every day. Premium when you want more.
No card and no trial clock. The free plan is the whole daily habit. Premium opens the rest of the deck and the extras.
Free
No card needed- Three of the day’s seven facts, every day
- The daily Rabbit Hole run
- Stump: twist any fact and challenge a friend
- Battle: accept any challenge, start one a day
- Your streak, Streak Freezes and your Cosmos map
- Saved facts, the widget and the daily fact pushes
Premium
Yearly starts with a 3-day free trial- All seven facts, every day
- An endless Rabbit Hole
- Unlimited Battles
- Spark: the right facts for the room you’re walking into
- Every fact pack
- Cosmos Explore: dive into any topic on your map
- Every share look, with our logo off if you like
Anything you save or earn stays yours, Premium or not.
Prices show in the app in your local currency before you buy. Cancel anytime from your phone’s subscription settings.
The rules
Built to be loved, not binged.
Every card has a back.
A source and a credibility rating on every fact. Tap through to read the original.
Seven is the cap.
The daily set stops at seven on purpose. Great brains rest too.
Three facts by push. No spam.
One at the time you choose, two more at 2 pm and 7 pm, each readable right in the notification. No marketing, on any plan.
A widget for your home screen.
Today's count and your streak on your iPhone's home screen, without opening the app. Free on every plan.
Ten languages.
The app and its facts, hooks and pushes, in ten languages.
EnglishEspañolDeutschFrançaisItalianoPortuguêsРусский日本語简体中文한국어
Questions
Before you install.
The short answers. The long ones are in the app.
What is Fact Drop?
Fact Drop is a daily facts app for iPhone and Android. Every morning it picks seven surprising facts around the topics you choose, each with a source and a credibility rating on the back of the card. Swipe through them in about two minutes, save the ones you love, and your streak climbs.
Why only seven facts a day?
Because seven is enough to remember and few enough to finish. Other fact apps compete on how many thousands of facts they hold. Fact Drop is built around whether you still remember Tuesday’s. The daily set stops at seven on purpose, the streak rewards finishing it, and Cosmos maps everything you have learned so far as a sky of lit stars.
How much does Fact Drop cost?
Fact Drop is free to use, with no card needed: three of the day’s seven facts every day, the daily Rabbit Hole, Stump, one Battle start a day, your streak, the widget and every notification. Premium opens all seven facts, an endless Rabbit Hole, unlimited Battles, Spark, every Pack, Cosmos Explore and every share look. The yearly plan starts with a 3-day free trial, so you can cancel before paying anything. Prices show in the app in your local currency before you buy.
What happens if I stop paying for Premium?
You go back to the free plan, and nothing you made or earned is taken away. Your saved facts, your streak, your Cosmos stars and your Spark history all stay yours, and the three free facts keep arriving every day.
Where can I get Fact Drop?
On iPhone, Fact Drop is a free public beta on TestFlight, Apple’s own app for betas: open the link on your iPhone, get TestFlight if you don’t have it, then tap Accept and Install. On Android it is in closed testing on Google Play, so join the waitlist and we send your invite. The App Store and Google Play listings arrive at launch.
Where do the facts come from?
Every fact is written from a named reference and links to it. Today that is the English Wikipedia article on the subject, chosen because anyone can check it in one tap; more references join as the library grows. The back of each card shows the source and a credibility rating out of five. If a fact is wrong, report it from the app or by email and we correct or pull it.
Which languages does Fact Drop support?
Ten: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean. The app, the facts and the notifications follow the language you pick.
How many notifications does it send?
Three facts a day. One at the time you choose, then two whole facts at 2 pm and 7 pm your time, written to be read right in the notification. Beyond those: a heads-up before a streak breaks and, only if you opt in, one update from a friend. No marketing. Your delivery time lives in Settings and you can move it any day.
Do my friends need the app to play Stump?
No. A Stump challenge is a link. Your friend opens it in any browser, gets ten seconds to call the fact true or twisted, and then sees the real fact and its source. If they want seven of their own every morning, the app is one tap away.
iPhone beta is open
Get it free.
No card needed. On iPhone the public beta is open, so tap through to TestFlight and you're in. Android is in closed testing on Google Play: join the waitlist and we'll send your invite.
- iPhoneTestFlight · Open beta
- AndroidGoogle Play · Waitlist
On iPhone? Skip the list.
The beta is free and open to everyone. It installs through TestFlight, Apple’s own app for betas.
- Open the link on your iPhone.
- Get TestFlight from the App Store if you don’t have it. It’s free.
- Tap View in TestFlight, then Accept and Install.