Stub

Keep the ticket after the film.

Hold it up to your phone. Stub reads it, then prints you a card designed from the film itself: its colours, one thing from its world, your seat, your night. No two are alike.

Coming to the App Store

For iPhone. No account, ever.

The front: a sun stamped in gold foil over a wine-dark sea, the cinema’s IMAX 70mm stamp on its stub.
Tap the card to turn it over AMC Lincoln Square 13 · IMAX 70MM · 17 JUL 2026

Every film, its own card.

Stub designs a card from what each film is: the colours it was sold in, one thing from its world, the face its title would be set in, and the room its tone asks for. A corridor that never ends for Backrooms. A stair going down for Parasite. A bagel with an eye that won’t keep still for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

  • Backrooms: a corridor of rooms inside rooms, black on yellow.Backrooms 2026
  • Oppenheimer: a burst of light, its rays running off the card.Oppenheimer 2023
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once: a gold bagel with a googly eye.Everything Everywhere 2022
  • Parasite: a stair going down, a black bar across it.Parasite 2019
  • Barbie: a field of sparkles in pink and yellow.Barbie 2023
  • Sinners: a crescent moon in a dark sky.Sinners 2025
  • Licorice Pizza: a record on cream.Licorice Pizza 2021
  • Primetime: a television studio’s screen.Primetime 2026
  • Uncut Gems: a cut stone in violet and teal.Uncut Gems 2019
  • F1: a circuit’s corner with red and white kerbs.F1 2025
  • Past Lives: two people, a line between them.Past Lives 2023
  • Project Hail Mary: a star and a planet on its orbit.Project Hail Mary 2026
  • Wuthering Heights: a red tree bent by the wind on a moor.Wuthering Heights 2026
  • Challengers: three balls in a triangle.Challengers 2024
  • Weapons: a clock at 2:17.Weapons 2025
  • You Can See Everything: a drop of blood on black.You Can See Everything 2026

Seen in IMAX or Dolby Cinema? The cinema stamps it.

A night in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, 70mm, VistaVision or 4DX is stamped on the stub, the way a box office validates a ticket: the format’s name in a double frame, in the card’s own ink, pressed a little crooked. It is read off the ticket itself, never guessed from the film.

Heart of the Beast’s card, seen in Dolby Cinema at AMC Empire 25: two mountains on pale cotton card, the format stamped on its stub.
Heart of the BeastAMC Empire 25 · DOLBY CINEMA · 26 SEP 2026

It ages the way a ticket would.

A card picks up the years since the night: its edges tone, a fold sets in, the corners you have handled soften. Your 2019 cards look like 2019. Nothing fades on its own, and nothing is aged to look clever.

  1. Little Women, December 2019: a flower on cotton card, its edges toned and folds set in.26 DEC 2019
  2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire, February 2020: a flame on navy, a fold across it.22 FEB 2020
  3. Aftersun, October 2022: a sun setting into a striped sea, lightly worn.29 OCT 2022
  4. Obsession, May 2026: a red spiral on cream, still crisp.16 MAY 2026

Then make it yours at the press.

Pull your own proof. Print the same film in nine treatments, each drawing the film’s own thing in its own idiom: a technical drawing, a woodcut ornament, a silhouette behind a venetian blind. Overprint it with your finger, stamp it, sign the back. Every pull is its own.

  1. Marty Supreme in its own design: a table-tennis paddle and ball.Its own
  2. Marty Supreme, Swiss.Swiss
  3. Marty Supreme, constructivist.Constructivist
  4. Marty Supreme, deco.Deco
  5. Marty Supreme, in cut paper.Cut paper
  6. Marty Supreme, risograph.Risograph
  7. Marty Supreme, letterpress.Letterpress
  8. Marty Supreme, as a blueprint.Blueprint
  9. Marty Supreme, noir.Noir

Tilt your phone, and the light moves.

Foil, holographic film, pearl and soft-touch card answer the light as you turn your phone, from one lamp, the way paper does on a table. Drag a finger across and you feel the stock: cotton is soft, foil is slick, the perforation clicks once.

Drag across the card to move the light

Poor Things · pearl card · the app’s own light, at thirteen angles

Your year at the pictures, set like a record.

Every night on one shelf: which films, which cinemas, what you paid, when you went. Filed by year in drawers you name, under a brass plate that counts them.

The season in Stub: thirty stubs across thirteen cinemas and four circuits, every night of every year on one shelf.

Your nights stay yours.

No account.

Nothing to sign up for at the cinema door. Your card is yours, on your phone, and follows you in your own iCloud.

Read on your iPhone.

The ticket is read on the phone, with Apple Intelligence where your phone has it. No photograph is uploaded.

Data Not Collected.

No analytics, no ratings, no feed. Stub’s App Store label says it, and this page fetches nothing from anyone else either.

For cinemas: Add to Stub.

One link on your booking confirmation, next to Add to Wallet. Your audience keeps the ticket perfectly, with your poster printed into its card and your name on every one they share. Free to adopt, no SDK, no account, and nothing about your audience comes to us: the ticket’s fields ride in the link’s fragment, which never reaches a server.

https://keepthestub.app/add
  #title=Salt%20in%20the%20Orchard
  &cinema=The%20Kestrel%20Picture%20House
  &at=2026-10-21T13:45%2B13:00
  &screen=3&format=IMAX%2070mm&seat=K4
  &poster=https://example.com/posters/salt.jpg
An invented film at an invented cinema.

Keep the next one.

Coming to the App Store

For iPhone. No account, ever.