Messages sent by carrier pigeons? There's an app for you

Athe telephones have changed the way we communicate over long distances, it was mobile phones and especially the messaging applications that really allowed us to be present constantly in each other's lives. Maybe sometimes too much.

If you feel that traditional messaging applications work too instantaneously and would like to regain a little of the feeling of getting a missive sent several days earlier, we have an application to suggest to you.

Carrie Pidge is an app available from the App Store apple was developed by a single developer named Noah Yarrobino. The idea is simple and goes through simulating how it would be if a message was sent by a carrier pigeon, thus taking longer to arrive and even likely to get lost along the way.

The app is available for iPhone and iPad and is based on the actual GPS distance between two people. If the recipient of the message is in the same city, sending will take only a few seconds, but if he is at another location in the country or on another continent, the distance means that the message will not arrive until several hours.

“ But not all pigeons reach their destination”You can read Carrie Pidge's description. “ With 0.2% chance of [the pigeon] getting lost in the middle of the flight and about 25% of speed variation, each message is a small adventure”.

The most fun is that you can see directly in the application where your “dove” is, realizing exactly when time is missing until the recipient receives the message.

Even if it is not a practical or effective way of communicating with someone else, Carrie Pidge is still a valid proposal in the message apps panorama – especially for those who like to experience some innovative concepts, or are fond of columbophilia.

Spent 3 weeks building a texting app slower than email. Messages fly at pigment speed — LA to NYC takes 22 hrs. Sometimes the bird dies & the message isn’t delivered. pic.twitter.com/MwHcldFr0Y

— Noah (@noah bino) August 12, 2026