Themes

Holo: a profile that moves when you tilt

Your profile as a graded, full-art trading card, with a hologram that shifts as you tilt your phone. A look at one of our favourite NovaPod themes.

The NovaPod team 4 min read
Two phones showing the NovaPod Holo theme: a holographic trading-card profile and a holo Feed card

Remember the first time you tilted a holographic trading card under a lamp and watched the foil come alive? That's the feeling we wanted for a profile page.

Holo, in motion

Tilt your phone. Watch it shift.

Holo reads your phone's motion sensor, so the foil follows your hand: tilt left and the colours slide one way, tilt right and they slide back. Hidden in the hologram, like on a passport, are tiny emblems and microtext that only show up at the right angle.

Your profile, as a graded card

Holo doesn't just put a shiny filter on your page. It rebuilds your whole profile as a full-art trading card in a graded slab, with every part of the card made from your real profile:

  • The grading label on top of the slab: "Full Art Holo, Set 01", your name and a Gem Mint 10.
  • XP is your follower count.
  • Your Ability is your first interest, so a baker's card reads differently from a guitarist's.
  • Your moves are your two biggest Journeys, ranked by how many Chapters they have.
  • The binder below the card shows all your Journeys as collectible cards, silver holo and gold rare.
Not a filter. A whole card, made from your profile.

It follows you around the app

When you pick Holo, it isn't only your profile that changes. Your Journeys show up as holo cards in other people's Feed and in Explore too, so the foil travels with everything you post.

A NovaPod profile in the Holo theme, shown as a graded trading card
A Journey card in the Feed with the Holo foil
A Journey card in Explore with the Holo foil

How to get Holo

  1. Open your profileTap Profile in the tab bar.
  2. Tap the palette iconIt's at the top of your profile, next to edit and settings.
  3. Find Holo in the StoreHolo is a premium theme: get it on its own, or with NovaPod Pro, which includes every premium theme.
  4. Tilt your phoneThen show someone. That's the best part.

One of 20+ themes, with a new one every Friday

Holo sits next to more than twenty other profile themes, from a cozy autumn fox to a neo-brutalist zine and a crochet cottage knitted from yarn. Every Friday at 17:00 (Amsterdam time) a new theme drops in the Store. Some stay for good, some are only around for a season.

Your profile is the first thing people see when they find your Journeys. It might as well look like you.

Find the holographic card

In NovaPod, go to Profile, tap the palette icon, then Store. Holo is one of 20+ themes, and a new one drops every Friday.

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