A photo feed for people you actually know.

Most photo apps are built around audiences — follower counts, likes, algorithmic reach. friendsnotfeeds is built around the opposite idea: a small, closed group of people who genuinely want to see each other's lives. No public profiles. No strangers. No performance.

Every friendship is mutual. Both sides have to agree before either can see the other's posts. There are no likes, no comments on comments, no engagement metrics of any kind. You post a photo because you want your friends to see it — not because you want an audience to react to it.

The feed is designed around the way people actually check in with friends: not constantly, but in bursts. Catchup mode shows you what you missed, oldest first, so you never have to scroll backwards through a reverse-chronological wall. Step away for a day or a month — when you come back, you pick up exactly where you left off. When you're caught up, you're caught up, and you can close the app.

We built it because we wanted something like this for ourselves. It's intentionally small: passkeys instead of passwords, no tracking pixels, no ad model. Hosting is paid for by friends who choose to chip in $12 a year. Staying small is the point.