Feature
Showcase mode
Every control behind the three slots: text, QR codes, typefaces, borders, animations and colour.
For car content creators
Your handle on the car, without the sticker.
A vinyl handle is permanent, wrong the week you move platforms, and useless for a collab or a giveaway. Apex Mini shows your handle, the platform glyph and a QR to your link page on the glass — and all three change from your phone in the time it takes to park.
Under $9996 characters a slotInstagram, TikTok, YouTube, X and moreShowcase runs with no signal
Handle plus the platform glyph
Ten icons, including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, WhatsApp and a plain website link. Pick one, type your handle, choose one of seven typefaces. It is an icon and your text, not a connected account.
A QR to your link page
One slot is a scannable code to wherever you want people: a link page, a video, a collab drop. It is read standing at the glass rather than across the car park, and short links make a simpler code.
Photographers can tag the right person
The comment under every meet photo is somebody asking whose car this is. A handle in the glass answers it on the car, at the moment the shot is taken, without anyone hunting a Facebook group.
Change it for the collab, change it back
A different handle for a joint build, a QR to this week's video, a different platform this month. It is a text field and a link field, not a windscreen you have to scrape.
Animations for when you want no text
Three built-in animations — Eyes, Wanted and Equalizer — with colour, speed and intensity controls, or a GIF from the catalogue Apex curates. Some catalogue GIFs are marked Premium; you cannot upload your own.
No phone in your hand all night
Once the slots are saved, Showcase cycles them from the panel with no signal and no phone involved. You are in the conversation, not standing by the car holding a screen up.
How a creator sets it up
Three slots, then get out of the car.
01Load your three slots
Handle, a line about the build or the channel, and a QR. Up to 96 characters a slot, set from the Apex app over Bluetooth or from the web panel in a browser.
02Make it look like your feed
Seven typefaces, six border styles, your own text and border colours, and nine text animations from a plain fade to a typewriter. Set the size or leave it on auto.
03Clip it on and shoot
Clip-on case inside the glass, reusable adhesive, nothing drilled. Slots rotate on their own at whatever interval you pick between 3 and 60 seconds.
A worked example
What a creator's panel shows.
Slot 1 · Handle
@apex.builds
Just the handle and the Instagram glyph, in the largest size that fits. This is the one someone reads without breaking stride.
Slot 2 · The car
1998 SUPRA · SINGLE TURBO · BUILD SERIES ON YOUTUBE
Free text, so whatever you would put in a caption. Ninety-six characters is about one line of one — it is not a spec sheet.
Slot 3 · QR
Scan for the build series
The caption under the code; the link is a separate field. Point it at a link page you control so you can change the destination without touching the panel.
Questions
Creator questions, answered.
Should you put your Instagram handle on your car?
The usual objection is that vinyl is permanent and dates badly. A panel is not: it clips off the glass, and the handle or platform changes whenever you want. Check the account is public first, or the people who look you up find nothing.
Is an Instagram sticker on a car cringe?
Opinions split, but most of the complaint is about vinyl that stays on for years, on every trip, including the school run. A screen that only goes up when you are parked at a meet does not commit you to anything.
How do car photographers find the owner to tag?
Usually by posting the photo and hoping somebody recognises the car. A handle in the glass at the meet answers that at the moment the photo is taken, which is the only moment it is easy.
Can it show TikTok and YouTube too?
Yes. The icon list covers Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, WhatsApp, email, a location pin and a generic website link. Change the glyph and the handle text whenever you like.
Does it connect to my Instagram account?
No. There is no account connection and no follower count. It shows the icon, the text you type and a QR code pointing wherever you set it.
Can I put my own GIF or photo on it?
No. Animated backgrounds come from a catalogue Apex curates, and some of them are marked Premium. Your text, colours, typeface, icon and QR link are the parts you control.
What is the best way to get followers from car meets?
Be findable. Keep the handle visible at the glass, point the QR at one link page you can redirect later, and use the same handle everywhere so a photo of any angle of the car still leads somewhere.
Does it need my phone to keep running?
No. Once the slots are saved to the panel, Showcase cycles them on its own with no phone and no signal. The phone is only needed to change what it says.
Early access
First batch, first served.
We're building the first run now. Get on the list for first access when it ships — plus the early pricing that comes with it.