Paid circles
Monthly subscriptions or one-time passes
Members pay to join; the circle stays end-to-end encrypted. Split revenue automatically between co-owners.
Private by design. End-to-end encrypted.
Your people, in rings you choose.
A private home for close friends
Posts, messages, photos, calls and livestreams in private circles are encrypted on your devices, so not even Circles can read them.
Free to join. Creators keep 90% of every sale, before Stripe processing fees.
Encrypted on your device
Private posts, messages, media and calls are locked before they leave your phone.
No ads in private spaces
We can't read private content, so it can never be used to target you.
Keys you control
Every device has its own key. Your password unlocks them, and Circles never sees it.
Built to earn
Paid circles, posts, sessions and live. 10% platform fee by default.
How it works
Up and running in three steps.
No setup guides, no key files to manage. The encryption happens quietly in the background while you get on with your people.
Step 1: Create a circle
Name it, pick a cover, and choose who can join: anyone, invite only, or by approval. Private circles are end-to-end encrypted from the first post.
Step 2: Invite your people
Share an invite link. When someone joins, an admin's device passes them the circle key automatically, or you approve each person by hand.
Step 3: Share and gather
Post updates, build photo and video albums, chat in channels, hop on a call or go live. All of it readable only by members.
Circles
A circle for every kind of group.
Each circle has its own feed, chat channels, albums, files, roles and livestreams. Make as many as you need.
Close friends
A private feed and group chat for the people you'd actually call. Inside jokes stay inside.
- Encrypted chat
- Shared albums
Family
Baby photos, holiday videos and the family recipe, in full quality, without a public profile in sight.
- Photo & video albums
- Calls
Book clubs
Announcements for the next pick, a chat channel per book, and files for notes and reading lists.
- Channels
- Files
Clubs & teams
Routes, schedules and race-day livestreams for the whole crew. Roles keep admins and members organised.
- Roles
- Live
End-to-end encryption
Locked on your phone. Unlocked only by your people.
Think of every private circle as a room with its own key. Members' devices hold copies of that key; our servers only ever see the locked box.
- Messages and posts use XChaCha20-Poly1305 from libsodium, a widely audited library. Nothing home-made.
- Each device has its own key. A new phone unlocks your account key with your password, in the phone itself. Circles never receives the password.
- When someone leaves a circle, a fresh key is made for everyone else, so they can't read anything new.
- Compare safety numbers with a friend to prove nobody is in the middle.
Your devices
Sunday lunch at ours?
Encrypted with the circle key
Circles servers
Unreadable ciphertext: x9Kq2f…Z0vP7c+e4mTb…Qa1=
Stores and relays. Holds no key.
Members' devices
MDLS
Each device decrypts locally
Private messaging
Messages that stay between you.
Direct messages and group chats are end-to-end encrypted, attachments and group names included. Calls too.
Encrypted attachments
Photos, videos and files are encrypted on your device before upload.
Safety numbers
Verify a contact in person or on a call; you're warned if their key changes.
Quiet notifications
Push notifications never contain message content.
You choose who can reach you
Everyone, followers, friends or nobody. Under-18s start friends-only.
The public feed
Public posts, and why you're seeing each one.
Your home has two feeds of public posts. Following is the people you follow, newest first, with nothing ranked. For you adds public posts from people you don't follow yet, ranked by what you and the people you follow like, reply to and repost.
Every post says why it's there
You follow them, people you follow liked it, someone you follow reposted it, it's popular now, or it's new. Circles never shows who liked a post, only how many.
What you've seen stays on your device
Your phone or browser remembers which posts it already showed you, so For you doesn't repeat them. Circles counts how often a public post is seen, per post, never who saw it.
Not interested, show fewer, mute
Not interested hides a post and sends fewer like it. You can see fewer posts from an account, or mute accounts and words. All of it is listed in Settings, where you can clear it.
Only public posts
Posts on public profiles and in open public circles that aren't encrypted. Private circles, messages and anything end-to-end encrypted are never part of it.
- To suggest posts on topics you like, Google Gemini reads the text of public posts. Only public ones.
- Sensitive posts are blurred until you choose to see them, and never shown to anyone under 18.
- Prefer it plain? Set your home to open on Following.
Liked by people you follow
A neighbour
Public post
Our community garden has its first tomatoes. If you're around on Saturday, come and take some home.
24 3 2
- Not interested in this post
- Show fewer from this account
- Mute this account
For creators
Turn your circle into a living.
Sell memberships, single posts, 1:1 video sessions and live tickets from one place. Payments and payouts run on Stripe.
Paid posts
Sell a single post
Unlock a song, tutorial or file for a one-off price. Buyers see a 5-second preview or a blurred image first.
1:1 sessions
Paid video sessions
Offer coaching, lessons or consultations as private, encrypted video calls booked and paid in advance.
Live
Go live to your circle
Free or ticketed livestreams with encrypted video. Browsers that can't encrypt aren't silently downgraded.
Simple, published pricing
10%
Platform fee on each sale by default. No monthly charge to run a circle. Stripe processing fees apply.
AI persona circles
Let members ask how you think, any time.
A founder, a coach or an author can add an AI persona of themselves to a circle. It's built from their own words and answers members in their voice, and it's updated every month with ten answers they write themselves.
Part 1: 30 questions about you
Who you are, how you think about business and decisions, what helped you succeed, your failures, habits and advice.
Part 2: 100 lines of your conversations
A chat you had with other people, so it writes like you. Only your own lines are kept: the other people's never leave your device.
Part 3: A one-page essay
Your story, and the secrets you think helped you get where you are.
Part 4: Links, PDFs and notes
Talks, articles and documents that help it answer the way you would.
- Updated every month with 10 real answers. Members' most-asked questions, and the ones the AI answered least well, come to you. Your answers go to the members and into the persona.
- Always of yourself. Every answer is labelled AI. It never claims to be you, and never makes offers or promises for you.
- Not a model trained on you: Google Gemini reads your material with each question. Pause it or delete it any time.
- For people 18 and over, to build one and to ask one.
Ask the founder's AI
In a members-only circle
How did you price your first product?
I started higher than felt comfortable, then listened. The people who said yes told me more than the ones who said it was too much.
AI persona of the founder, made with Gemini from their own material. It can be wrong.
Answered by the founder, this month
Today I'd say: price for the customer you want to keep.
Make it a paid circle
Members pay a monthly subscription to join, ask the AI, read your real answers and see everything you share in the circle. Payments run on Stripe; Circles takes a 10% platform fee by default.
The AI part isn't end-to-end encrypted
A persona's material, members' questions to it and its answers are read by Circles' servers and processed by Google Gemini. Nothing else in the circle is sent to the AI.
In an encrypted circle, posts, chat, photos, videos and files stay end-to-end encrypted.
Fees, explained
You set the price. We take one clear cut.
Circles charges a 10% platform fee on each sale. The rest goes to the circle's owners, split however they agree.
- Access is granted only after Stripe confirms the payment. No fake success screens.
- Payouts, identity checks and tax forms are handled by Stripe Connect. We never see card numbers.
- Subscriptions renew monthly until cancelled; access lasts to the end of the paid period.
- Refunds and chargebacks can reverse the related payout.
$10.00
Co-owners sharing revenue
- Buyer pays
- $10.00
- Circles platform fee (10%)
- −$1.00
- To you
- $9.00
Stripe's card processing fees are deducted separately and vary by country and payment method. Owners can set any split that adds up to 100%. The fee shown here is the default; the exact fee is shown in your creator settings before you set prices.
Private media storage
Your photos and videos, sealed before they leave.
Every file is encrypted on your device, then split into three equal parts kept in three separate storage buckets. Storage only ever holds encrypted thirds, never the keys.
Converted in your browser
Videos are stored once, in 720p, converted on your device before they're encrypted. Photos and files under 100 MB are kept exactly as uploaded.
Location data stripped
Photo metadata such as GPS is removed before upload.
Split three ways
Each encrypted 4 MB piece is cut into three equal parts, each stored in a separate bucket.
Cold storage, not deletion
Media unopened for 90 days moves to cheaper archive storage and is restored when you play it.
One encrypted 4 MB piece of your video
Encrypted on your device, then split into three equal parts
1First thirdBucket 1
2Second thirdBucket 2
3Final thirdBucket 3
Trust & safety
Private doesn't mean lawless.
We can't read encrypted content, so we built safety tools that work without breaking encryption for everyone else.
Reports that can't be faked
Report an encrypted message and choose to reveal just that one item. A cryptographic commitment proves it's exactly what was sent.
Child safety first
Child-safety reports are top priority and never auto-dismissed. Under-18 accounts start private and friends-only.
Clear enforcement
Warnings, strikes, suspensions and removals, each recorded in an append-only audit log and explained to you.
Copyright respected
A DMCA notice form, counter-notices and a repeat-infringer policy.
No. Private messages, private circle posts, private media and calls are encrypted on your devices with keys our servers can't read: we keep your account key only locked with your password, which we never receive. We do see metadata, such as who is in a conversation, when messages are sent and how large they are. Read exactly what we can and can't see.
Bring your people together.
Start a circle in a minute. Invite friends, family or your community, and keep what you share between you.