Where it happened
Here, now.
Every post carries the place it was taken, sealed with it on the receipt.
Open the map and your world lays itself out, where things actually happened.
Photos and videos, verifiably captured by your friends, sealed by their phone and pinned where it happened.
Just the people you know, and a feed that ends.
iOS · invite only · Made in Australia 🇦🇺
Why this is different
Nothing gets in here that can't prove it's real. Right now that means the camera in this app, sealed at the shutter, with no gallery access and no import.
Because every post has to prove itself, there's no endless supply of content here, and no strangers. What's left is the people you know, and a feed that ends.
Made in Port Macquarie
Australian made, already beyond Australian standards.
In September 2026 the Australian Government proposed making every platform offer a feed without the algorithm, and protect under-18s by design.
Present has never had an algorithm, and has been 16 and over, private by default, since the first build.
Where it happened
Every post carries the place it was taken, sealed with it on the receipt.
Open the map and your world lays itself out, where things actually happened.
Video
Video on Present is six seconds long. You have ten minutes to make it, in as many clips as you like, and they join together in the order you shot them. Undo drops the last clip you took.
Six seconds because Vine was right. Long enough to tell a story, short enough to keep it interesting. And you have ten minutes to capture it.
Every clip is captured in the app and sealed the same way a photo is.
Messages
Conversations on Present happen on the posts. Your friendsmates can join in or not, so every post ends up with a different group of people.
There's no direct messaging here. We have phone numbers for that. Or letters. Or, if you're patient, Roost.
Proof that travels
Every capture gets a receipt. When Present receives a real capture, it gives you a receipt, the same way a shop does when you pay. It records what came in: when it was captured, where, on which phone, and that nothing has changed since. Anyone can check it at prsnt.au.
Share one to a group chat, a story, or anywhere else, and send the link rather than a screenshot. Anyone who taps it sees the receipt, no app or account needed.
You choose what each receipt shows, right on the share screen.
prsnt.au/7TR2N · verified · open it
@lily with @brian, @laura.h and @emj · Morning 10k before the city woke up.
It ends, and it doesn't chase you
You've seen it all. The rest is offline. A social app that knows when to stop.
Max one per day, by default. More often if you choose.
If nothing happened, nothing gets sent.
The mark
Inspired by the way Aboriginal art has long drawn community: concentric circles for a meeting place, meaning people gathered around it. The centre is you. The inner ring is your friends. The outer ring is their friends.
Day one
You're here because someone brought you, and they're already on Present. Their invite is your first connection, so you never start with an empty app.
Then it's your turn. Invite the friendsmates you want to connect with, as many as you like.
And it works while it's quiet. Everything you post is yours, and yours to prove.
How to join
Got an invite code from a friend? Download the app and sign up.
No invite code? If you're the one who gets everyone together, tell us about yourself and we'll get you and your crew in.
Questions
No. It's a pro-proof app.
That's where six seconds comes from. Vine had it right: six seconds is long enough to tell a story but short enough to keep it interesting. Present gives you ten minutes to shoot those six seconds, in as many clips as you like, and every clip is captured in the app and sealed on the phone that took it.
Yes, they can. Present verifies capture, not context. A real photo or video of a screen is still a real capture. Present scans every post for abnormalities, and if anything looks out of the ordinary it's flagged in the app and on the receipt so you can judge for yourself. We also reject images with too much text.
There is no ranked feed or recommendation system. You connect with people and see the posts they make, in the order they happened. The aim is to show you what your friends are doing, not to work out what will keep you scrolling. That is also the feed Australia's My Feed, My Way asks platforms to offer.
No. The rule is that a post can prove where it came from, and right now the app's camera is the only way to do that. As more hardware signs its own captures, phones and proper cameras alike, those get let in too, including photos you took before you'd heard of us. What never gets let in is anything that can't prove itself.
Your friends put them there. When a friend tags you in a post, it appears on your profile once you accept it, taken by them, verified like everything else. There is no separate section for posts you're tagged in, they sit with your own. The posts of you here were made by the people you were actually with.
Whatever your friends call you. A first name is enough. Add initials or a surname if you like. Everyone who can see you already knows who you are.
16 and up, everywhere. We don't believe social media belongs in anyone's life younger than that.
You need an invite code from a friend who's already on Present. Download the app, sign up with your code, and you and the friend who invited you are connected from the start.
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