RareSats App FAQ

RareSats is a display and showcase application for rare satoshis on iPhone and Apple Watch. It identifies the rare sats you already own and presents them as Apple Watch faces, a native Apple Watch app, a themed iPhone gallery, and creative exports (wallpapers, posters, social cards).

A rare sat is an individual satoshi (the smallest unit of Bitcoin) whose place on the Bitcoin timeline gives it a distinguishing attribute — for example, the first sat of a block, a sat from block 9, a palindrome number, or a sat traceable to the famous 10,000-BTC pizza transaction. RareSats automatically detects more than 20 such categories from public on-chain data.

You provide a public Bitcoin address (or several) — or a specific sat number — and RareSats queries public on-chain data to enumerate the sats and identify their rarity attributes. A public address is the same string anyone can use to send you Bitcoin; it’s not a credential.

RareSats automatically labels all major categories, including:

• Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Mythic (and their Black variants)
• Alpha (first sat of a Bitcoin) and Omega (last sat of a Bitcoin)
• Block 9 and Block 78
• Nakamoto and First TX
• Vintage
• Pizza
• Hitman
• Palindrome

Once a rare sat is in your collection on iPhone:

• Open the sat’s detail page in the iPhone app.
• Tap Set as Watch Face and choose one of the curated face designs.
• The face is composed locally on your paired Apple Watch via WatchKit and shows public sat metadata only.

Browse your rare-sat collection from your wrist, see rarity at a glance, and pick the next sat to wear as your watch face. The Watch app mirrors content from the iPhone app via WatchConnectivity — it does not contact our servers on its own.

• The app handles only public on-chain identifiers (a public address or sat number).
• Identification, classification, gallery rendering, and creative export run locally on your device.
• No advertising SDKs and no cross-app tracking. The app does not request the iOS App Tracking Transparency prompt.
• Apple Watch faces and creative exports include only public sat metadata.
• Optional anonymized diagnostics can be turned off in Settings.

No. Rare sats live on Bitcoin and are controlled by whatever wallet holds the corresponding address — entirely separate from RareSats. Uninstalling RareSats only removes the on-device gallery, theme settings, and watch-face configuration. The next time you install the app, paste the same public address and your sats reappear.

• More watch face designs and Apple Watch complications
• Additional creative templates for wallpaper and social-card export
• Expanded satribute coverage as Ordinals standards evolve
• Optional iCloud sync for collection metadata across your Apple devices

No. RareSats is a display application. It does not custody assets, exchange or trade tokens, match orders, or process payments. Any buying, selling, or transferring happens entirely outside RareSats in tools you operate yourself.

No. The core display features work without an account. An account is only needed for optional cross-device features such as theme sync.