Embiggen

- August 5, 2016

Everyone

Entertainment

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Description

Use words to their fullest potential: Embiggen them!

At a bar, at the library, in class, even in the comfort of your own home. Just type in a word or phrase and watch as small words become big words on your phone's screen. No word is too small to embiggen!

101 ways to use Embiggen:
- Tell that girl across the room she's cute, or ask the guy at the library for his phone number!
- Pick a fight with someone on the bus without saying a word!
- Command your literate dog to fetch your slippers!
- and 98 others!!!

Reviews

4.6

752 total

5 548

4 130

3 42

2 11

1 21

Sebastian Andrei Iordache

Great Been using the free version since forever! Never gets old, always useful. EDIT AFTER UPDATE: what I said still applies, really useful app, use it all the time, but the white back ground... Cmon.. plz fix xD.. seriously tho, make the theme black and I'll be back to 5 stars, and you rock. Considering buying it for the amount of use I got out of it, I don't need the extra features! Ggwp

Doc PoJo

Recent update (2016 Aug) The recent update changed too much. I would have been fine with additional options, but changing the screen where you type from black to white and no longer switching text on tap (swipe now) both suck. I loved it before, but... Yeesh.

Shigeki Miyake-Stoner

Used to be good. The simple, subtle black background was great on the previous version. Downgraded to painful white text input screen.

Arnab Ghosh

Now I can annoy colleagues without saying a word! I wasn't expecting an update after so many days.. but since you are working on it.. could you please add an orientation option with 3 choices : Auto, Potrait and Landscape. thank you

Jakob Lindskog

Sooooo good! Been using embiggen to communicate with my grandma for a while now. Works really smooth, and the last update only helps it. Greeeat

Andrew LD

Big update Glad to see more updates for this useful app!

User reviews

Sebastian Andrei Iordache August 9, 2016

Doc PoJo August 22, 2016

Shigeki Miyake-Stoner August 6, 2016

Used to be good. The simple, subtle black background was great on the previous version. Downgraded to painful white text input screen.

Arnab Ghosh August 6, 2016

Jakob Lindskog August 15, 2016

Sooooo good! Been using embiggen to communicate with my grandma for a while now. Works really smooth, and the last update only helps it. Greeeat

Andrew LD August 5, 2016

Big update Glad to see more updates for this useful app!

Leona Yap August 5, 2016

Great redesign. Prompt dev.

Pointless Software August 5, 2016

I just published a fix for this - please let me know if it still isn't working.

Humphrey McColl August 5, 2016

Super useful One of my favourite apps. So great for bars and for working in quiet environments. Not such of a fan of the white background as you type in the new update, please add a dark option, I prefer to be discrete!

Pointless Software August 5, 2016

Great idea about the dark theme - I'll try to put it in the next update.

Tomas Lööw August 5, 2016

Who needs Facegram or Instabook when you can just EMBIGGEN what you want people to read?

Justin VanDenBerg March 20, 2016

Great for ordering drinks! This app is amazing at crowded bars. Just stand behind everyone and hold up your phone with a drink order. Next thing you know a drink will come to you even if you're three people back. Its awesome!! Saves a ton of time at bars and the bartenders love it because they don't have to try to hear you yell or guess what you just said. Simple and easy to use.

curtis mcallister October 13, 2015

LIGHTS! my favorite use so far is telling people their car lights are off at night. there's no universal hand signal for lights and you can't flash yours at people behind you. also most people are apparently terrible lip readers.

Allison Wintrip February 17, 2013

Laryngitis-girl gets musician to play her favorite song I went to a concert while I had laryngitis. The musician announced that he was taking requests for the second half of the show. Despite being close to the front, there was no way my voice was going to cooperate. I pulled out my phone, opened Embiggen, entered the name of my favorite song, and held my phone up. The musician stopped, looked at the phone, looked at me sheepishly pointing to my throat, laughed, and played the song. Thank you!

Sumran Domguy April 29, 2014

Had this app for at least 2 years. This app is fantastic... But it looks like it has been forgotten by the dev, What a shame as this app could have gone to so many more levels.

Viviano Cantu February 14, 2015

This app saved my life I used it to display "Help!" Outside my kidnaper's window and one bystander called the police after he saw it. Although, I could've just called the police myself since I had my phone so only 4 stars.

Aaron Van Miller July 25, 2016

Wanted something like Nick fury used in the winter soldier, but this is close enough and more useful with the auto sizing of the text. More for using in places too loud to talk, not because i think the room is bugged.

Emre Can December 9, 2015

Magical Years past since my first android, but one thing that hadn't changed is this nifty little thing. The sheer simplicity and convenience of flashing words to your co-worker across the room is utterly priceless.

Robert Johnson October 7, 2013

Fiddly. An interface and categorized phrasebook like Ledify's would be a big improvement.

Ørjan Sollie January 26, 2014

Must-have One of the really few apps I need to have on my phone. The simplicity is just too great. Don't ever make it more complicated or add features. Great to be able to give short messages in loud environments.

Kazim Giby November 22, 2013

Amazing This is one of my favourite apps. It's a minor gripe, but could you update the icon by any chance?

Karan Shah December 30, 2013

Should be a default app Anyone with an Android phone should have this app. The most fun I have had with it is to pass messages when in the audience to colleagues presenting to customers.

Tom Heeney July 31, 2014

The best app I own It does one thing perfectly. Show someone a few words when you can't talk out loud. Perfect.

Nicholas Viers January 12, 2014

Great App! It's especially useful in bars. Hopefully a future update will include the Android 4.4 KitKat subversive mode where the app maximizes over the status bar and navigation bar on Nexus devices.

Michelle Hammond August 29, 2015

Question I like the app but would like to save more than 3 phrases. Does the paid version allow you to do that?

Zac Sweers July 27, 2013

Great on phones, no tablet support Love it on my phone, but just get a blank screen in my nexus 7 :( if it doesn't support tablets, don't make it available for them

Naga Raghavendra Gangavati March 9, 2014

Perfect! Does what it says... But the text written after exclamation (!) doesn't come up.Please fix it.

Pointless Software April 7, 2014

By default, Embiggen will split your text into multiple sentences using punctuation, but you can change this in the settings menu.

Natalie Peck April 26, 2015

Pretty great. This is a great little app. My only complaint is that it doesn't seem tp support emojis.

David Johnson March 4, 2014

Excellent app I'm proud to say that I've tried all the other 98 ways to use embiggen and it performs them flawlessly. A perfectly cromulent application.

Abdullah Tarawneh March 11, 2015

The best app on my phone, period. Simple, does its job, insanely useful. Just one request: can we embiggen emoji?

Earl James August 29, 2015

Broken This app was fantastic about a year ago, but now none of the text displays when I try to post it....not sure what happened...Sony Xperia Z tablet.

Daniel Peace April 1, 2016

No Emoji This app is begging for emoji support!

Me You August 7, 2016

Welcome Back devs... You were missed very much 😆

Matt Mazenauer April 17, 2016

Perfectly simple and effective. Useful in tough-to-communicate situations (closing tab at a bar, for instance).

Jesús García August 3, 2013

Handy app to have installed Simple, efficient and elegant way to communicate at distance in noisy / silent environments.

Dave Clark November 19, 2013

Love it already I just got this app and love it already. I'm always wanting to show someone next to me in a meeting what I'm thinking, and this is perfect for that!