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Every picture, shared by default.
beisammen · noun · German · being together
For moments that stay between us
A photo and video app for the handful of people you actually want to send things to. Not a network. Not a feed. A small, quiet place.
Coming to iOS and Android — self-hostable by design.
A small, private place for the photos that don’t belong on the internet.
Most of the pictures on your phone are not for everyone. They are for three people, or five, or one. They are for the people in the photo and the people who love them.
beisammen is built for that audience. Share with a named circle. Keep the originals on storage you control. Leave the rest of the internet out of it.
Small groups, named out loud.
A circle is a private shared library for a specific set of people. Join by invitation. No discovery, no suggestions, no metrics.
Family
Birthdays, kitchens, back-of-the-car photos.
Close friends
The chat before, the album after.
03 — Your storage
Your originals live where you say they live.
beisammen is a bring-your-own-storage app. We hold the metadata, the shared views, and the invites. The full-resolution files live on an S3-compatible bucket you choose — your own, your family’s, or an official one.
- 01 S3-compatible AWS, Backblaze, Wasabi, MinIO, Hetzner, Garage
- 02 Self-hostable Run the whole thing on your own hardware
- 03 Leaveable Take your originals and go, at any time
- 04 Source available PolyForm Noncommercial — readable, private
Four quiet commitments.
- i.
No feed
There is no algorithm deciding what you see. You see what your circles shared, in order.
- ii.
No strangers
Every person in beisammen is someone you already named. That is the whole social graph.
- iii.
No lock-in
Your originals stay in storage you control. Walk away with them whenever you want.
- iv.
No theatre
No reactions inflating into numbers. No streaks, no notifications chasing you back.
Coming soon
If this sounds like the app your group chat has been asking for, let us know.
We are building slowly, with a small group of early circles. Drop your email if you want to be one of them.