Press kit
iKippa draws a kippa (yarmulke) on an iPhone screen, edge to edge, so the phone can be rested on your head when you have not got a real one. It is a novelty app and says so throughout: it is not a religious article and satisfies no religious obligation.
Facts
| Name | iKippa |
| Developer | 8200 RAN INTELLIGENCE S.R.L. |
| Released | 15 September 2026 |
| Platform | iPhone, iOS 17 or later |
| Category | Entertainment, rated 4+ |
| Price | Free. iKippa Plus is a one-time $4.99 unlock; a single custom kippa is $1.99. No subscription. |
| Size | 1.5 MB |
| Data collected | None. No account, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs, and no network calls for any core feature. |
| App Store | apps.apple.com/app/id6810122883 |
| Press contact | office@ranintelligence.com |
What it does
Wear mode. The kippa fills the screen. The display is kept awake and the brightness pinned up, so it reads as fabric from across a table. Tapping it plays an "Amen".
Seven styles. Classic Velvet is free. iKippa Plus adds Knitted with the metal clip, Bar Mitzvah Satin, Na Nach Breslov, Bukharian, Suede and Star of David.
A designer. Material, four to eight panels, colour, and text embroidered around the rim in a chosen thread colour. The text curves with the circle and reads right to left in Hebrew. A menorah or Star of David can be placed by hand — dragged, pinched and turned.
Story angles
The joke that stopped being one. The rim inscription was built as part of the gag — real kippot carry a name and a date from somebody's simcha. Typed with a real name in it, it stops being funny and becomes the thing people actually want: a bar mitzvah keepsake that costs nothing.
An app that makes no network calls. In 2026 that is close to unusual. No account, no analytics, no crash reporting, no third-party SDK of any kind. Everything a user makes stays on their own device and in their own iCloud backup. Apple's privacy label reads "Data Not Collected".
Getting a religious joke past App Review. The app was rejected twice. The first time the reviewer asked what it was for — a fair question to put to someone who has submitted a picture of a hat. Answering it required writing out, in detail, why the problem it solves is a joke problem.
Drawn in code, not painted. Every kippa is rendered live in SwiftUI Canvas — the velvet sheen, the crochet rings, the stitched binding, the curve of the rim text. There are no bitmaps in the app, which is why the whole thing is 1.5 MB and why the designer can produce combinations nobody drew in advance.
Screenshots
Higher-resolution versions and additional images are available on request.
Quotable
"It is a joke. A good one, we hope."
"Not rabbinically approved. Probably."
Boilerplate
iKippa is a novelty iPhone app that draws a kippa on the screen so the phone can be rested on your head when a real one is not to hand. It includes a designer for making decorative kippa graphics, including text embroidered around the rim. It collects no data. iKippa is made by 8200 RAN INTELLIGENCE S.R.L.
Please note
iKippa is entertainment. It is not a kippa, it is not a religious article, it satisfies no religious obligation, and it is not endorsed by any rabbi or religious authority. The disclaimer page states this in full, as does the app itself.
Credits
Typeface: Frank Ruhl Libre by Yanek Iontef, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The Star of David and menorah are drawn in code as vector paths. All other artwork is original.