A/SIDE is a private app for the friends who actually know you. No

algorithm. No ads. No AI training. No selling data. Just a feed, in order, from the

people you chose.

YOUR FEED IN ORDER

Posts appear in strict reverse-chronological order from the people

you follow. No ranking. No "suggested for you." No engagement-based

reordering. No trending tab. No explore tab. You open the app and

see what your people posted, newest first. React to any post with any emoji, whatever fits.

ENCRYPTED MESSAGES

Direct messages and group chats are end-to-end encrypted with the

Signal Protocol — the same protocol behind Signal and WhatsApp.

Photos in DMs are encrypted too. We can't read them. Nobody can,

except the people in the conversation.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

A/SIDE has no public profiles, no discovery, no search. There's

nowhere to land if you don't know somebody inside. A friend sends

you an invite code, or you ask to follow someone — both sides have

to confirm. Nothing about you is searchable from the outside.

Screenshots get a reminder that off-platform sharing isn't allowed

and may lead to account suspension.

GROUPS

Make a group for family, for your climbing crew, for your book

club. Tap a group to filter the feed to just those people. Nobody

knows they're in a group — it's a lens, not a broadcast list.

VOICE

Real-time voice dictation for captions, comments, and DMs. Fully

on device using Apple's speech recognition. Audio never leaves

your phone. Requires iOS 26+.

HOME SCREEN WIDGET

A quiet widget that shows your closest friend's latest post.

Glance at your home screen and see what people are up to.

NOT ON BIG TECH

A/SIDE runs on an independent provider — not AWS, not Google

Cloud, not Azure. We pay for the infrastructure ourselves. Your

photos aren't feeding any big-tech data pipeline.

PRICING

Free: everything, 7 days of feed and message history.

Pro Individual: $4.99/month or $49.99/year — unlimited history.

Pro Family: $14.99/month or $149.99/year — up to 6 people via

Family Sharing.

Photos in screenshots

Trail photo by Stefan Flack on Unsplash.

Bouldering photo by Nathan Cima on Unsplash.

Mountain ridge photo by Veronica Dudarev on Unsplash.

Morning photo by Inna Kapturevska on Unsplash.

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