Features

Everything your group needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Feeds, chat, albums, files, calls and livestreams, wrapped in end-to-end encryption that works without you thinking about it.

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Circles

A private home for every group.

Each circle is a small world of its own: a feed, channels, albums, files and live video, with the people you choose.

Public, invite-only or by approval

Choose how people join. Public circles can be discovered; private ones are end-to-end encrypted.

Roles and permissions

Owners, admins and members with granular permissions checked on the server for every request.

Chat and announcement channels

Organise conversation into channels, with announcement channels for updates that shouldn't get buried.

Photo and video albums

Categories for photos, videos, files and posts keep years of shared memories easy to browse.

Files, PDFs and links

Share documents, reading lists and links. PDFs open right in the app, decrypted on your device, and links travel inside the encrypted post.

Livestreams

Go live to your circle with frame-level encryption. Free or ticketed.

Invite and referral links

Invite people with a link and see which links bring people in.

Collective circles

Run a group fund through the collective's own Stripe account, with proposals and member votes for payouts.

AI persona circles

An owner can add an AI version of themselves, built from their own words, that members can ask any time; it's updated every month with ten answers they write themselves. This part isn't end-to-end encrypted: Circles' servers and Google Gemini read it. Nothing else in the circle is sent to the AI.

How it works

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Find public circles by topic, or keep yours completely private.

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Messaging & calls

Talk freely. Only the people in the chat can read it.

Direct messages, group chats and calls are end-to-end encrypted, including attachments and group names.

One-to-one and group conversations with encrypted photos, videos and files.
Disappearing messages: pick 15 seconds, 30 seconds or 1 minute, and it disappears that long after each person views it. Until they press View they see a blurred card, never the message. Chat and posts in encrypted circles can disappear too. What's deleted, and the exceptions
Voice and video calls with encrypted frames. Browsers that can't encrypt calls aren't allowed to join unencrypted.
Safety numbers to verify a contact, and a warning if their identity key ever changes unexpectedly.
Control who can message you: everyone, followers, friends or nobody.
Creators can sell paid messages and attachments.

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Live & face to face

Gather live, wherever everyone is.

Host a livestream for your circle or book a 1:1 video session. Video is encrypted in the browser and our media server only forwards encrypted frames.

Livestreams for circle members, free or ticketed.
Paid 1:1 sessions with a title, duration and a scheduled time.
A fresh random key for every stream, shared only with people allowed in.

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Photos, video & files

Fully encrypted. Made for streaming. Split three ways.

Converted on your device

Videos are stored once, in 720p (never upscaled), converted in your browser with hardware encoders where available and uploaded while they convert. Photos and files under 100 MB are kept exactly as uploaded (only encrypted).

Streams while you watch

An encrypted index lets the player fetch and decrypt just the pieces it needs, so seeking is fast.

Resumable uploads

Lose your connection mid-upload and only the missing pieces are re-sent. Files over 5 GB work with bounded memory.

Private duplicate detection

Re-uploading the same file reuses your copy. The fingerprint is keyed to your account, so nobody can compare files across users.

Archived, not deleted

Media nobody has opened for 90 days moves to cold storage, still encrypted and split three ways, and is restored when someone plays 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

Each bucket holds one encrypted third. None of them holds a key. Your device fetches all three parts and joins them before decrypting.

Social & discovery

Public when you want it. Private by default where it matters.

Follow people, add friends and browse public circles. Everything public is plain on purpose so it can be found; everything private stays sealed.

Follows and friends

Follow creators and add friends. Private accounts approve every follower.

Explore and search

Browse public circles by category and search public profiles and circles.

Promotions without snooping

Promoted circles target public categories only, never message or circle contents.

Public posts and pages

Profiles, public circle pages and public posts can be shared anywhere.

For you, explained

The public feed ranks public posts by who you follow, what you and they like, and how people respond. Every post says why it's there. What you've seen stays on your device, and private circles never go into it.

Your feed, your call

Not interested, show fewer, mute words and accounts, or open on Following only: newest first, no ranking.

Your account

Security and control, built in.

Two-factor authentication

Add an authenticator app code to your sign-in.

Sessions and devices

See every signed-in device, sign out sessions and remove lost devices.

New-device alerts

Get told when a new device signs in to your account.

Export your data

Download your data as JSON. Encrypted items export as ciphertext only your devices can open.

Privacy controls

Private account, discoverability, online status and who can message you.

Install it like an app

Add Circles to your home screen and turn on push notifications that never include message content.

Selling memberships, posts, sessions or live tickets? See the creator tools.

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Start your first circle today.

Start a circle in a minute. Invite friends, family or your community, and keep what you share between you.

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