A camera-only app for you and your friends

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

Real captures only.

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.

Every post has its own verification page, which can be shared at a link anyone can open, even without the app.

Real

The app only accepts posts taken through its own camera, sealed by the phone at the moment of capture. Nothing is imported, so there is nothing uploaded to detect after the fact.

Yours

You see posts from your friends, and sometimes their friends, in the order they were taken. Nothing is ranked or recommended, and there is no audience to build here.

Finite

There is a bottom to your feed. Once you've seen everything your friends have posted, there is nothing else to scroll through. You can close the app and come back tomorrow.

Made in Port Macquarie

No algorithm, no worries.

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.

For the big platforms that means rebuilding the feed. Here it is already your feed, your way.

How Present lines up with My Feed, My Way

Where it happened

Here, now.

Every post carries the place it was taken, sealed with it on the record. Open the map and your world lays itself out, where things actually happened. Your posts, and any you're in.

A verified photo of a rainbow crossing at dusk pinned to the map
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A verified photo of a coastal lookout pinned to the map
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A verified photo of a lagoon pinned to the map
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A verified photo of a coastal lookout group pinned to the map
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A verified photo pinned to the map
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How locations work

Video

Six seconds. Ten minutes to get them.

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.

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four clips, in the order you took them6s

Six seconds because Vine was right. Long enough for something to happen, short enough to watch twice. And you have ten minutes to capture it.

Every clip is captured in the app and sealed the same way a photo is.

The app

What an app with just you and your friends feels like.

Present
Feed post of the canal picnic
Brian with Merel and Daan
Oudegracht, Utrecht
2h

It rained on the canal picnic. Committed to the costume anyway.

Merel "the commitment to the bit"

Tom "posting this mid rain is the most you thing ever"

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Feed post of a trophy toast at a trailhead
Jesse of Tom
Tropical Islands
5h

Kegs at the dome.

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Sophie with Emily and Lotte
London
3h

Front left, as always.

Emily "front left is a lifestyle"

Lotte "never not"

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Daan
Tokyo
5h

Train themed restaurant. He stayed in character the whole dinner.

Tom "how spicy would you like your shinkansen"

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How it works

You shouldn't have to trust us when the post itself can carry evidence of where it came from.

Capture

Camera only

Everything is taken in the app. There is no upload from your gallery and no import from other apps.

Sign

Sealed at the shutter

Your phone's secure hardware signs the capture the moment it's taken, before it leaves your hand.

Post

No edits

You can caption a post, but you can't change it. What gets posted is what the camera recorded.

Share

Proof that travels

Every post gets a permanent page showing the capture and its record. Share the link and the proof goes with it.

Proof that travels

Every post has a home.

Proof on Present lives at the link. And it travels.

Share one to a group chat, a story, or anywhere else, and send the link rather than a screenshot. Anyone who taps it lands on a page they can open with no app and no account: the post and its record, when and where it was taken, on real hardware, untouched since.

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How Present verifies a photo

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Verified capture

@lily with @brian @laura.h @emj · Morning 10k before the city woke up.

Captured8:11 AM CEST · 5 Jun 2026
DeviceiPhone 16 Pro
Edits since captureNone
LocationBrandenburger Tor, Berlin

The archive

Still the same in ten years.

Every post you make and every post you're in stays where you put it, in an archive nobody can edit, including us and including you. You can delete a post, but you can't quietly rewrite one.

Ordinary photo libraries drift. Files get edited, filtered, re-saved and moved between phones until you can't tell what was original, or whether anything was changed. Here the record is fixed at the shutter, so a post from years ago still carries its time, its place, and the proof it hasn't changed.

It ends, and it doesn't chase you

The app that doesn't keep scrolling.

You've seen it all. The rest is offline. A social app that knows when to stop.

In September 2026 the Australian Government proposed making every platform offer a feed without the algorithm. Present already is one.

How Present lines up with My Feed, My Way

Notifications that don't chase you.

Max one per day, by default. More often if you choose.
If nothing happened, nothing gets sent.

Honest about the limits

What we prove, and what we don't.

Present proves

A post was captured live, on real camera hardware, and has never been altered since. Anyone can check that at the link, without an account.

Present doesn't prove

That the scene itself tells the whole story. A real photo or video of a staged moment still verifies, because it really was captured. We verify capture, not context.

The mark

Just your friends. And sometimes their friends.

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 won't arrive alone.

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 friends 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

Invite only.

Every person on Present was brought by a friend, and you join the same way: with an invite code from someone already on it.

Have a code? Download the app, sign up, and you and the friend who invited you are connected from the moment you land.

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Questions

Fair questions, straight answers.

Is this an anti-AI app? +

No. It's a pro-proof app.

Is the video like Vine? +

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.

Can't someone just photograph a screen? +

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 the verification page so you can judge for yourself. We also reject images with too much text.

Is there an algorithm? +

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.

Will it always be captured in the app? +

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.

If everything I post is taken by me, how do photos of me get on my profile? +

Your friends put them there. When a friend tags you in a post, it lands 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.

What name do I go by? +

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.

Who can use Present? +

16 and up, everywhere. We don't believe social media belongs in anyone's life younger than that.

When does it launch? +

iOS first, invite only. You'll need a code from a friend who's already on it.

How do I join? +

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 moment you land.

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