A/SIDE is a private app for the friends who actually know you. No
algorithm. No ads. No AI training. No selling data. Just a feed, in order, from the
people you chose.

YOUR FEED IN ORDER
Posts appear in strict reverse-chronological order from the people
you follow. No ranking. No "suggested for you." No engagement-based
reordering. No trending tab. No explore tab. You open the app and
see what your people posted, newest first. React to any post with any emoji, whatever fits.

ENCRYPTED MESSAGES
Direct messages and group chats are end-to-end encrypted with the
Signal Protocol — the same protocol behind Signal and WhatsApp.
Photos in DMs are encrypted too. We can't read them. Nobody can,
except the people in the conversation.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
A/SIDE has no public profiles, no discovery, no search. There's
nowhere to land if you don't know somebody inside. A friend sends
you an invite code, or you ask to follow someone — both sides have
to confirm. Nothing about you is searchable from the outside.
Screenshots get a reminder that off-platform sharing isn't allowed
and may lead to account suspension.

GROUPS
Make a group for family, for your climbing crew, for your book
club. Tap a group to filter the feed to just those people. Nobody
knows they're in a group — it's a lens, not a broadcast list.

VOICE
Real-time voice dictation for captions, comments, and DMs. Fully
on device using Apple's speech recognition. Audio never leaves
your phone. Requires iOS 26+.

HOME SCREEN WIDGET
A quiet widget that shows your closest friend's latest post.
Glance at your home screen and see what people are up to.

NOT ON BIG TECH
A/SIDE runs on an independent provider — not AWS, not Google
Cloud, not Azure. We pay for the infrastructure ourselves. Your
photos aren't feeding any big-tech data pipeline.

OPEN SOURCE
A/SIDE's server and mobile client are open source, so our privacy
claims are inspectable instead of just promised. You can review the
code behind encrypted DMs, the chronological feed, and the absence
of ads, algorithmic ranking, and AI-training hooks.

Source: https://github.com/A-SIDE-Social/aside

PRICING
Free: everything, 30 days of feed and message history.
Pro Individual: $20/year — unlimited history.
Pro Family: $60/year — up to 6 people.

Photos in screenshots
Trail photo by Stefan Flack on Unsplash.
Bouldering photo by Nathan Cima on Unsplash.
Mountain ridge photo by Veronica Dudarev on Unsplash.
Morning photo by Inna Kapturevska on Unsplash.

Terms of Use: https://a-side.social/terms
Privacy Policy: https://a-side.social/privacy