Neurotic Stix

Take your self-deprecating messages to the next level with a fun iOS app that lets you customize quirky, animated stickers with your own captions! Create custom stickers from over 70 animated templates. Share your stickers from the app, or use the sticker pack in Messages. You can add all kinds of widgets to your home screen… Check out Neurotic Weather from a customizable widget or from the app. And now we have Stix Comics and Neurotic AI. The neurotic possibilities are endless! 😱🌪

Available in the iOS App Store for iPhones & iPads running iOS 18.0 and later. Free to make a few custom creations; unlock all features with a subscription of $2.99/year. (That’s so cheap that even after subscribing for 1000 years, it’ll still be cheaper than buying an Apple Vision Pro!)

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New Features

Version 5.2

• 📱 Widget-orama! Added a Bigger Dumb Clock widget, which shows the time, day, and date all at once. Gave the Big Dumb Clock widget some big dumb love with a new “Date and Day” config option. Also made various Neurotic Weather widget improvements.
• 🌊 YOLO Mode! Your stix library is now a flowing river (if you want it to be). Old, non-favorited stix quietly drift away once they go stale, and fresh community stix float in when things get sparse. Pick your mood, decide how long a stix gets to loiter before it’s old news, and set the refill threshold. YOLO is off by default. Flip it on in Settings if you’re feeling brave.
• 🐞 Plus! Other little bug fixes and feature enhancements.

Version 5.1

• 🌦️ Make It Rain! Made some visual enhancements to Neurotic Weather and added a new “Make It Rain!” feature. When you turn this on from the settings, the app always opens the Neurotic Weather view when launched. (Oops. Sorry if you thought “make it rain!” meant that you’d get a bunch of money…)
• 🏀🐸🚡 Basketball, Frog, Aerial Tram! Added a stix of someone playing basketball, someone in a frog costume, and an aerial tram.
• 🌀 Icons! Added two more app icons, one with weather stuff and one weird spirally thingy.
• 🐞 Bugs! Squashed some bugs that were bugging me.

Version 5.0

• 📚 Stix Comics: Create 3-panel comic strips with your neurotic stix and share them with anyone who’ll listen!
• 💭 Caption Bubble Revolution: Choose between dialogue, thought, or banner captions so your stix can think self-deprecating thoughts without saying them!
• 🎭 New Custom Stix: A podium speaker, a couch lounger, a pilot in a plane, and a talking slice of pizza!
• 🥃 Liquid Glassification: A fancier user interface with a shimmery sheen, bringing the app into the future (or present, or past)!
• 🤖 Apple Intelligence Integration: Neurotic AI with on-device intelligence that kinda sorta understands how you feel!
• 🔧 Widget & UI Clean Up: Various enhancements and improvements with a thorough prettying up across the board!
• ⚙️ Settings Page Overhaul: More settings! Because who doesn’t love spending hours tweaking nitpicky trivial things!?
• ⚡ Memory & Performance Wizardry: Fixed crashes and made things snappier and happier and less crappier!
• 📱 Version Update: Neurotic Stix now requires iOS 18 or later.

Help

Check out our help and troubleshooting tips if you need some assistance.

Privacy

This app is created by Neurotic Tornado, LLC. We don’t collect any data from you. We don’t want your data, we wouldn’t know what to do with your data, keep your data to yourself!

If we ever change our privacy policy, we will post those changes here.

• Sept 14, 2019: First published.
• Oct 2, 2023: Moved app communication info to a section below.

Terms of Use

See our terms of use at this location.

App Communication

The main communication that can occur from the app is (a) with Apple regarding purchases or weather data, (b) with an AI provider when you explicitly generate a stix using Neurotic AI, and (c) with a Neurotic Stix repository to occasionally download community stix for the community stix widget or the community tab. The app may also open a web page in your browser if you actively tap a link, such as for help. And that’s about it. In other words, nothing sneaky is being discussed behind your back!

Contact

If you actually want to contact the neurotic developer, use this half-baked form, or send him a message on Mastodon or Threads or Bluesky.

Merch

Hey! Pssst! Over here!… Wanna buy some weird, rarely-advertised, rarely-purchased Neurotic Stix merchandise? Check out this storefront where you can buy shirts, mugs, magnets, and other suspicious stuff.

More Throat Clearing

By the way, this app used to be called “Neurotic Stix Pro”, but the “Pro” part felt too arrogant, so I renamed it to “Neurotic Stix” to better suit the self-deprecating vibe. Don’t worry, you can still feel Pro-like when using this app.

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