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v1.0 Four charges shipped →

Lips-as-a-Service.

Ship faster. Moisturize harder.

Battery Balm is the hydration layer for your mouth. Four battery-shaped balms, one Power Pack, zero actual voltage. Twist up, deploy, done.

No credit card required. No card reader either. It's lip balm.

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Trusted by lips at teams that haven't launched yet

Supabalm
Chapify
Glossbase
ointment.ai
Lipstack
Moistly
Waxcel
pout/io
99.99%lip uptime (trailing 30 days)
0 Vactual voltage, by design
⌘Kto apply (try it)
<1stime to glide
5SKUs in production

The hardware

Four charges. Zero volts.

Every unit is machined from aluminum, anodized matte black and fitted with a charge gauge that never needs charging. The balm does the work. The LEDs do the marketing.

BB-01 · Stick

Full Charge

Everyday peppermint. The default config. Ships at 100% and stays there.

  • flavorpeppermint
  • formattwist-up stick
  • gauge4/4 bars
  • payload0.15 oz
BB-02 · Tinted stick

Fast Charge

A sheer cherry tint with low-latency color. Lightning bolt included at no extra charge.

  • flavorcherry
  • finishsheer red tint
  • mode⚡ fast
  • payload0.15 oz
BB-03 · Overnight stick

Low Battery

Extra-thick, unscented overnight balm. Runs as a background job while you sleep.

  • scentnone
  • textureextra-thick
  • gauge1/4, red
  • payload0.15 oz
bb bb 9V TINGLE 9V TINGLE CINNAMON · 0.25 OZ NO ACTUAL VOLTAGE BB-04
BB-04 · Slide tin

9V Tingle

Cinnamon tingle in a machined 9-volt slide tin. Two snap terminals, zero connections. The tingle is a feature.

  • flavorcinnamon
  • formatslide tin
  • voltagenone (actual)
  • payload0.25 oz

Quickstart

One command.
Two lips.

No SDK, no config file, no onboarding call. Remove cap, twist up, apply. Works on every platform with a face.

  • Zero dependencies (one lip balm)
  • Idempotent: apply as often as you like
  • Rollback by blotting
zsh · ~/lips
~/lips $ npx batterybalm apply --lips  › resolving charge profile … Full Charge  › removing cap ………………… ok  › twisting up …………………… 3.2 mm  › deploying hydration …… upper ✓ lower ✓  › checking voltage ………… 0 V (as designed)✔ Applied in 0.84s. Lips are production-ready. ~/lips $ batterybalm status  Full Charge  ████ 100%  peppermint  Low Battery  █░░░  25%  overnight~/lips $ 
bb batterybalm Power Pack 4 STICKS · 4 × 0.15 OZ · 0 V BB-05 FULL · FULL · FAST · LOW
Full Charge× 1
Full Charge× 1
Fast Charge× 1
Low Battery× 1

Power Pack · BB-05

The monorepo
of lip care.

Four sticks in one carton, packaged like hardware you'd hesitate to open. Magnetic-feeling lid. Satisfying unboxing. No cables, because there is nothing to plug in.

  • Full Charge · peppermint× 2
  • Fast Charge · cherry tint× 1
  • Low Battery · overnight× 1
  • Charging cable× 0
Contact sales →

Plans

Pick a plan. Every plan is a lip balm.

Simple, transparent pricing, coming soon. Nothing is for sale yet, which makes our churn rate excellent.

Starter

Full Charge

BB-01 · peppermint stick
Waitlist

per mouth · billed never (yet)

  • Peppermint runtime
  • 4/4 bars out of the box
  • Twist-up deploys
  • Community support (your friends)
Join the waitlist
Most popular Pro

Fast Charge

BB-02 · cherry tinted stick
Waitlist

per mouth · billed never (yet)

  • Everything in Starter, but cherry
  • Sheer red tint
  • ⚡ Fast Charge mode
  • Color with low latency
Join the waitlist
Overnight (Enterprise)

Low Battery

BB-03 · overnight stick
Custom

per pillow · annual commitment to sleep

  • Extra-thick, unscented
  • 8-hour SLA (sleep-level agreement)
  • Runs in the background
  • Dedicated pillow
Contact sales
Edge

9V Tingle

BB-04 · cinnamon slide tin
Talk to us

deployed at the edge (of your lips)

  • Cinnamon tingle
  • 9V form factor, two snap terminals
  • 0.25 oz payload
  • No actual voltage
Talk to an engineer

Wall of love

Founders can't stop posting about it.

PR
Priya R.@priyaships · founder, stealth startup
𝕏

We migrated our entire lip stack to Battery Balm. Zero chapped incidents since cutover.

♡ 2.4k↻ 3122h
DK
Devon K.@devonbuilds · founder, stealth startup
𝕏

Low Battery runs overnight more reliably than our actual cron jobs. Not sure how to feel about that.

♡ 1.1k↻ 985h
MS
Mara S.@marasays · founder, stealth startup
𝕏

Asked for a demo. They handed me a lip balm. Best demo I've had this year.

♡ 4.8k↻ 7011d
JT
Jules T.@julestweets · founder, stealth startup
𝕏

The 9V Tingle tin is the only hardware on my desk that has never thrown an error.

♡ 860↻ 541d
AO
Ade O.@adeships · founder, stealthier startup
𝕏

Fast Charge took my lips from 10% to 100% during one standup. The standup ran long.

♡ 1.9k↻ 1432d
SL
Sam L.@samlaunches · founder, stealth startup
𝕏

Put the Power Pack on a slide in our deck. Nobody asked why. The round closed.

Changelog

Shipping in public.

v1.0Nov 2026GA

Shipped Full Charge, Fast Charge, Low Battery and 9V Tingle

General availability for lips. All four charges are now in production. Waitlist is open.

v0.9Sep 2026Beta

Power Pack enters private beta

Four sticks, one carton, zero dongles. Unboxing latency reduced by a satisfying amount.

v0.7Jun 2026Breaking

Removed actual voltage

Users preferred it. The (+) terminal remains for backwards compatibility with the vibe.

v0.4Mar 2026Fix

9V terminals now snap

They still don't connect to anything. That part is intended.

v0.1Jan 2026Init

Initial commit

Prototype was an actual AA battery. Do not apply. We learned a lot.

Early access

Ready to deploy
to your face?

Nothing is for sale yet. Join the waitlist and be among the first lips in production.

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