A/SIDE - Private Social

Private Photos & Encrypted DMs

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Your private social circle, with no ads or algorithm. Free accounts now include 30 days of history, and annual Pro starts at $20/year. 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

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A/SIDE Pro is now simpler and lower priced. - Pro Individual is now $20/year. - Pro Family is now $60/year for up to 6 people. - Free accounts can now see 30 days of feed and message history. - Settings now includes links to the A/SIDE source code and open-source licenses.

Version 1.3.3

The developer, Lab 1908 LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • Purchases
    • Contact Info
    • Contacts
    • User Content
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data

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Information

Seller
  • Lab 1908 LLC
Size
  • 46.5 MB
Category
  • Social Networking
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
16+
  • 16+
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  • Infrequent
    Profanity or Crude Humor
    Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References

    Contains
    Unrestricted Web Access
    Messaging and Chat
    User-Generated Content
Copyright
  • © 2026 Lab 1908 LLC
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  • Privacy Policy
  • License Agreement

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