Present is a camera. Nothing can be imported. Nothing can be generated. Nothing can be edited. If you see it here, it was captured live, on a real phone, by a real person. And you can see that for yourself.
@brian with @merel @daan · It rained on the canal picnic. Committed to the costume anyway.
"you were never supposed to find this"
She waited 40 years at this window. Nobody knows her name. 😢
How it works
The only way to post is the in-app camera. No gallery access, no importing, no way in for a photo that already exists. It's not a rule we enforce. It's the only path that exists.
The instant you take a photo, your phone's secure hardware signs it, confirming a real capture on a real, untampered device, before the image ever leaves your hand.
Caption it, then post it or bin it. What posts is exactly what the camera saw. No filters, no edits, no AI.
Every post gets a permanent page anyone can visit: the photo, its capture time, its attestation. Share the link and the proof goes with it.
The name
Nothing to collect, nothing to polish, no posting Saturday on a quiet Tuesday. You take the photo, say your piece, and your phone goes back in your pocket.
The verification page
Screenshots lose their history. So proof on Present doesn't live in the file. It lives at the link. A page anyone can open, no account needed, showing the photo and its record: when it was captured, on real hardware, untouched since.
@brian with @laura @em @soph · Sunrise 10k before the city woke up.
Profiles
The selfie camera, live, at the moment you set it. Attested like any other capture, so a profile photo here can't be generated, stolen, or borrowed from someone's feed. And like every capture on Present, it has its own record page anyone can open.
The app
with @merel @daan · It rained on the canal picnic. Committed to the costume anyway.
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photo captured live · joined Jun 2026
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@merel took a photo of you. Add to your profile?
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@daan replied "the commitment to the bit"
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@tom tagged you in a photo with him. Add to your profile?
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@soph started following you
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@daan added your photo of him to his profile
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The map
Every photo on Present was captured somewhere, provably. The map is you and your friends, pinned where it happened. Open it from a profile and it's just that person.
The feed
No filters means the blur stays. The rain stays. The weird stays. This is what a feed looks like when every photo is simply what happened.
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Present proves
A photo was captured live, on real camera hardware, and has never been altered since. The claim is narrow, technical, and checkable by anyone.
Present doesn't prove
That the scene itself tells the whole story. A real photo of a staged moment still verifies, because it is, in fact, a real photo. We verify capture, not context.
Founding members
The waitlist is free and gets you in first, with first pick of usernames. You were here when photos became photos again.
iOS first. Waitlist members get access first, and first chance at the 1000 Founder places.
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Questions
No. It's a pro-proof app. Use AI everywhere else. This is the one place it can't follow you.
Your phone captures far more than pixels: depth, focus, motion, and lighting data come with every shot. A flat screen looks nothing like a real scene in that data, and every capture is checked against it.
We tell you. Publicly, immediately, with the affected records marked.
Every photo gets one. 140 characters, typed in the app. No paste, for the same reason there is no import: what you post here, you made.
Tag them and they can add it to their profile and map. You can keep it off your own: some photos are for them, not your feed. Since every photo is captured live, the photos of you are taken by the people you're actually with.
Capture verification uses device signals at the moment you shoot. What's shown publicly is your choice: precise, approximate, or nothing.
No feed ranking, no recommendations, no engagement optimisation. You follow people; you see their photos in order. Certainty, not attention.
Sydney, Australia. The first country to ban under-16s from social media. It suits us.
16 and up, everywhere. We don't believe social media belongs in anyone's life younger than that.
iOS first. Waitlist members get access first.
