Private photo circles

Photos for
your people,
no one else.

beisammen is a quiet home for the photos you take together — for partners, families, and the friends you actually text back. No feed. No followers. No algorithm.

Invite-only circlesOfficial cloud or your ownSource-available
The idea

Closer, not louder.

Social apps keep shouting. beisammen whispers — between the few people who actually matter to you, and nobody else.

Circles

A quiet place for every quiet group.

01 · 02 · 03
01 Usually 2

Just the two of you.

The in-jokes, the Polaroids, the Tuesday nights. A small, steady place for the life you share.

02 4–8 people

The family chat, but warmer.

First steps, last candles, ordinary Sundays. One calm feed for the people who were there from the start.

03 A few

The people you actually call.

Trips, concerts, inside bits. Kept between the four of you — never borrowed by a feed.

Private by design

Trust, quietly built in.

01

Invite-only

Every circle starts empty. You decide who walks in — no requests, no suggestions, no surprises.

02

No public feed

Nothing here is tuned for strangers, followers, or reach. There is no explore tab because there is nothing to explore.

03

Yours, really

Your photos live on your cloud — or on ours. Leave whenever, take them with you.

04

Source-available

Read the code. Audit the boundaries. Trust, verified — not just promised.

Hosting

Start in the cloud. Move to your own, anytime.

Option 01 Recommended

Official cloud.

Sign in, make a circle, share something from tonight. We handle uploads, backups, and upgrades so nothing gets in the way of your photos.

  • Nothing to set up. Open the app and start.
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest.
  • New features land here first.
Option 02 Advanced

Self-hosted.

Prefer your own box? Run beisammen next to your own S3 bucket. Yours to own, break, and bring back — on your terms.

  • Runs on any S3-compatible storage.
  • WorkOS handles sign-in for you.
  • Private, noncommercial use is welcome.
Pairs with
Amazon S3Backblaze B2Cloudflare R2Hetzner ObjectMinIOWasabi

Source-available is not OSI open source. Commercial hosting and resale need a separate agreement.

Access

The door is almost open.

We are letting people in slowly, one circle at a time. Drop your email and we will quietly tap you when the next round unlocks.

No newsletter. No noise. Just the ping when it is your turn.