Put Warbirds on your home screen and fly like it's a real app
Warbirds now installs to your phone or desktop with its own icon, full screen, no address bar — and it loads instantly. No app store, no download, no waiting on a review. Same game, one tap away.
One tap to its own icon
On your phone, open Warbirds and choose Add to Home Screen (we'll nudge you if you haven't). From then on it lives next to your other apps with its own icon. Tap it and the game opens full screen — no browser tabs, no URL bar, none of the chrome that reminds you you're "just on a website." It looks and feels like an app you installed, because for all practical purposes you did.
On desktop it's the same story: install it from the browser and it gets its own window in your dock or taskbar. The fiddly bits — the notch on a modern iPhone, the status bar tint, keeping the screen the right way up — are all handled, so it just feels right in the hand.
It loads the instant you tap
Because the whole game world is drawn from scratch in code — the planes, the ships, the islands, all generated rather than downloaded — there are no big art files to fetch. That means the app itself is tiny, and once it's on your device it boots more or less instantly, even on a flaky connection. Open it on the train, in a queue, wherever; it's ready before you've finished settling in.
No store, no download bar, no "update available." You tap the icon and you're at the runway.
Always the latest version, automatically
The flip side of an installed app is making sure you're never stuck on a stale version. We've put a lot of care into how updates roll out so that when we ship something new, your installed Warbirds quietly picks it up as one clean package — never a half-old, half-new mix that could glitch on launch. You don't have to think about it; you just always get the current game.
Why bother?
Warbirds has always been "click a link and you're flying," and we never wanted to lose that. Becoming installable doesn't trade it away — it adds a second front door for the people who play often enough to want the game one tap from their home screen. Same instant game underneath, now with a permanent spot on your phone.