Aura Drive — the flash drive that AirDrops. Beam your files to any phone.

The 30-second pitch

A USB stick is the simplest way to carry files — until you try to plug it in.

iPhone has no USB port. Android is USB-C. Your laptop's a different shape, and half the time you don't have the cable anyway. Aura Drive is a flash drive that skips the plug entirely: your files live on the stick, and you beam any of them to any device over WiFi — iPhone, Android, Mac, PC. Carry your files in your pocket like always; AirDrop them to anyone, on any platform, with no cable and nothing touching a server.

How it works

Load it. Beam it. Done.

Load it up

Drag files onto Aura Drive like any flash drive over USB-C — photos, stems, video, docs. It's your pocket storage.

Beam, don't plug

Open the app on any phone or laptop, pick a file off the drive, and it airdrops over WiFi. No port, no adapter, no cable.

Any device, all at once

iPhone, Android, Mac, PC pull from the same drive — even a whole room at once. The aura ring shows it sending.

Aura Drive beaming its files to iPhone, Android, Mac and PC

Why a device, not an app

It's a flash drive that doesn't care what port you have.

	Aura Drive	AirDrop	A USB stick
Carry your files with you	Yes	No	Yes
Works iPhone + Android + PC	Yes	Apple only	Port hell
No cable / no matching port	Yes	Yes	Needs a port
Send to many devices at once	Yes	1:1 only	No
Files leave your network	Never	Never	Never
No cloud, no account	Yes	Yes	Yes

Aura Drive is the only column that's "yes" all the way down — a USB stick you never have to plug in.

What's inside

Storage in your pocket. Sharing without the plug.

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Real storage on board

It's a flash drive first — your files live on the stick. Load it over USB-C and carry it anywhere.

📡

Beam, don't plug

Send any file off the drive over WiFi. No USB port to find, no Lightning-vs-USB-C, no adapter, no cable.

🌐

Every platform

iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux all pull from the same drive. If it has the app or a browser, it works.

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Many at once

Beam one file to a whole room of devices at the same time — not the 1:1 of AirDrop.

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No cloud, no accounts

Local WiFi only. Nothing uploaded, no link to expire, no "make an account to download."

💍

Aura status ring

A 360° light ring: teal = ready, purple = beaming, gold = delivered. You can feel a transfer land.

A DJ and crew beaming track files off an Aura Drive

Made for crews

Carry your set on it. Beam it to the booth.

A DJ keeps the night's tracks on the drive and beams the next one straight to the booth — no cable, no "what port does this have." A producer drops stems to the whole session at once. A photographer offloads a shoot to three phones before anyone leaves. Aura Drive started inside WavDrop — where crews already share music — because the slowest part of every collab was getting the actual files from one person's stick to the next person's phone.

Planned rewards

Reward tiers — preview · final pricing & capacity at launch

$15

Supporter

Sticker + wallpaper pack
Name in the digital credits
Backer-only WavDrop badge
Build-update feed access

Digital · ships at launch

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Early bird · limited 500

$59

Aura Drive 64GB — Early Bird

1× Aura Drive, 64GB (Aurora)
3 months WavDrop Pro
Free shipping (US)
Early-batch delivery

Est. delivery later in campaign year · 500 left

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$89

Aura Drive 128GB

1× Aura Drive, 128GB (Aurora)
1 month WavDrop Pro
App pairing

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Limited 150

$219

Crew Pack

3× Aura Drive 128GB, laser-engraved #
Lifetime WavDrop Pro
Crew Discord + roadmap votes
Early-batch delivery

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$699

Studio / Label Pack

10× Aura Drive 128GB for your crew
10× lifetime WavDrop Pro
Co-marketing drop with WavDrop

Est. delivery main batch

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$1,500

Aura Dock (collab)

Everything in Studio Pack
1× prototype Aura Dock base
Design credit on the dock
Studio visit / call with the team

Limited 10 · unlocked at a later stretch

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Stretch goals

What more funding unlocks.

Goal 1Bigger capacity — 256GB & 512GB editions for the people carrying whole libraries.planned

Goal 2Colorways — Midnight, Sunset & Chrome finishes for every backer to choose.planned

Goal 3End-to-end encryption — locked beams only the intended device can open.planned

Goal 4Aura Dock — a charging base that turns your desk into an always-on drive everyone can pull from.planned

Built by WavDrop

We didn't start with hardware. We started with a USB stick that wouldn't plug in.

WavDrop began as a place for DJs and producers to share tracks. The same moment kept killing sessions: someone had the files on a stick, and it wouldn't go into the next person's phone — wrong port, no adapter, no cable. AirDrop only covered the Apple half of the room. The cloud meant uploading a gig and waiting.

So we built a flash drive that beams instead of plugs. The ESP32 prototype works today — files load onto it, it joins WiFi, and the app pulls them onto any device. Backing this campaign funds the path from that working prototype to a manufacturable product: the storage, the enclosure, the production board, and the polish that makes it one tap.

Aura Drive flash drive prototype in hand

Honest part

Risks & challenges

It's a prototype, not a finished product. The ESP32 build works — files load onto it, it joins WiFi, and the app pulls them onto a phone — but it isn't the final hardware. Backing funds the path from working prototype to a manufacturable flash drive: onboard storage, enclosure, production board, firmware polish. We'll post monthly build updates with real photos, good news and bad.

Hardware timelines slip. Tooling, sourcing storage + a production board, and a global supply chain move dates. We'll only commit to milestones we can photograph progress toward — and we'll show the prototype on camera before launch so you see exactly what exists today.

Cross-platform is the hard part. Making one tap pull a file onto an iPhone, an Android, and a desktop identically is real engineering. The prototype proves the core beam; funding hardens it across every platform.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

So it's an actual flash drive?

Yes — your files live on it (target capacities 64GB and up). Load it over USB-C like any drive. The difference is you never have to plug it into the device you're sharing to — it beams over WiFi.

Do I plug it into my phone?

No — that's the whole point. No USB port to find, no Lightning-vs-USB-C, no adapter. You pick a file on the drive and it airdrops to your phone over WiFi.

Does it really work iPhone ↔ Android?

Yes. Any device with the WavDrop app (or a browser) can pull files off the drive — iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux. No AirDrop-style platform lock-in.

Do my files go to the cloud?

No. Files stay on the drive and beam device-to-device over your own WiFi. Nothing is uploaded, so there's no link to expire and nobody else can see them.

Is there a working unit, or just renders?

There's a working ESP32 prototype today — files load onto it, it joins WiFi, and the app pulls them onto a phone. The product photos here are concept renders; we'll swap in real footage before the Kickstarter launches.

When does it ship?

Timelines firm up at launch. We'll only commit to dates we can show progress toward — prototype → manufacturable hardware is exactly what funding covers.

The flash drive
that AirDrops.

A USB stick is the simplest way to carry files — until you try to plug it in.

Load it. Beam it. Done.

Load it up

Beam, don't plug

Any device, all at once

It's a flash drive that doesn't care what port you have.

Storage in your pocket. Sharing without the plug.

Real storage on board

Beam, don't plug

Every platform

Many at once

No cloud, no accounts

Aura status ring

Carry your set on it. Beam it to the booth.

Reward tiers — preview · final pricing & capacity at launch

What more funding unlocks.

We didn't start with hardware. We started with a USB stick that wouldn't plug in.

Risks & challenges

Questions, answered.

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