Ouen is what you open on the way to a concert, and the week before it.
It started as a fan-sign maker, because that is the part nobody wants to build by hand: big, outlined letters that read from the back of an arena. Around it sits everything else an oshi-supporting fan keeps in five different apps.
Fan signs you can actually print
Type a message, pick a font and a colour, and Ouen lays it out in huge letters, one per page, on A4 or A3. Print them at home or at a copy shop, cut them out and glue them onto a plain fan. A guide inside the app walks through the three steps. Prefer to hold up your phone? Show the sign full-screen at maximum brightness. Or save the whole fan as one image to post.
The fonts are chunky and rounded, in Japanese and Korean as well as Latin. Plus adds glitter and gradient fills, triple outlines and a jumbo size. Saving and printing are never locked behind it.
A savings jar for the next show
Set a goal like a tour trip or a birthday merch haul, log deposits and spending by category (tickets, merch, travel, hotels, streaming, albums, fan club), and watch the jar fill. Ouen only keeps the numbers you type in. No money moves and no bank is connected.
Merch and photocards, without buying the same one twice
A photo inventory of what you own, what you want and what you have doubles of to trade: photocards, acrylic stands, badges, lightsticks and more. Search it before you buy.
Every ticket deadline, from lottery to show day
Follow a show through application, lottery result, payment deadline, ticket release and the day itself, with reminders the day before and on the day. After the show, log the setlist, your seat, the fan-service moment you are still thinking about, and photos, then share it as an image card.
Made around your oshi
The home of the app is your oshi: a “supporting for N days” counter, a countdown to the next show, and a colour that the whole app takes on. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show the count and the next show. Plus lets you add more than one oshi if your heart is divided.
Free means free
No ads, and no account. Saving and printing a sign is never blocked, and a locked option is never silently applied, so a sign can never end up that you are unable to save. The paywall appears when you tap something locked, once after your first print, and in Settings, and never on launch. Ouen Plus is monthly, yearly with a 7-day free trial, or one lifetime purchase.
Native on iPhone, Android next
Ouen is Swift and SwiftUI with SwiftData on the phone, in ten languages. The sign letters are drawn with Core Text and exported as PDF. An Android version is in testing. The post about building it covers why it starts with the sign maker, what the reviews of existing fan apps complained about, and why it is called Ouen.
