Retro. Ad-Free Social 17+

I love the idea behind this app. I’m actually quite anti-social media, effectively eschewing Instagram for a while and never seeing the apparently transformative power of BeReal. BeReal effectively forces you to document and share your life in a certain way. “At this exact time! If you don’t we’ll make it clear to your friends that you cheated by waiting for when you were doing something interesting.” Retro on the other hand puts you in control. It basically says ‘you will do something or see something worth sharing every week and when you do share it here’. Basically it’s a more laid back version of BeReal and one I think encourages more sharing as there’s less pressure.

Design of the app is beautiful.

I really hope it takes off and can be monetised sustainably, whilst keeping the private, friends-only, ad-free feel it has at the moment. I for one would be prepared to pay a subscription for this ethos to continue.

This app not only lets you upload your weeks for the year showing what you did, who you were with, what you got up to etc. this app also allows you to connect with your friends in a way that’s different to most social media apps these days. It’s by far my favourite social app, and even allows a few post cards to be sent out, you design and write them, and they create, and post them 😁

I’m really hoping for a fix to the details of location attached automatically to my photos. The app is beautiful and I can see myself using it a lot, but privacy is important to me and when I post photos from home, I don’t want my home address listed (which is quite specific down to the name of my estate) - I know the app is just for people you let see your photos, but if I ever wanted to share it with my wider circle beyond family and closest friends, this would hold me back

There’s a function to turn off ‘neighborhood captions’ but it doesn’t seem to have worked, and still lists the location of my latest photo on my profile. Pls help!