YourCelf: Private Social

Your family's private photos

Only for iPhone

Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.

iPhone

A private place for your family's photos. Invite-only circles, no public feed, no strangers. Every photo you share with a Circle is sealed on your phone first. YourCelf is a private place for a family to share photographs. You make a Circle for your family, the cousins or the book club, and invite the people who belong in it. There is no public feed, no discovery, no strangers, and nothing to follow. Just the people you chose, and the moments you chose to share with them. Every photo you share with a Circle is sealed on your phone before it goes anywhere. The relay that carries it between phones holds only sealed blocks it cannot open, and neither can we. There is no account to create and no password to forget: your phone holds your keys, and only the people in your Circle can open what you send. WHAT A CIRCLE FEELS LIKE • Post a photo where only the people in the room can see it. • Answer with a photo of your own from the same day ("Add yours"), or leave a comment and reply to others. • Love a moment, or a comment. No follower counts, no rankings. • Someone new wants in? The person who invited them has to let them in. WHAT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE • Your photo library. YourCelf reads it on the device to find your days and trips, where they happened and who was there, and gathers them into Story. To name a place, your phone uses a list of towns kept on the phone, then asks Apple Maps about an approximate location, never the photo itself. Your photos are not uploaded. • Caption ideas. On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, Story can suggest a caption when you share a day, written on the phone by Apple's on-device model. It's used only if you choose it. • A second look, if you want one. Turn on Sensitive Content Warning in iOS Settings and your phone checks each photo before it's sent, using Apple's own on-device framework, and gives you a beat to reconsider. The result never leaves the phone. • Your keys, your Circles, your history. Delete everything from Settings and it is gone from this phone, including every backup YourCelf made. WHAT WE CAN AND CAN'T SEE Settings → "What we can and can't see" lays it out in plain language. The short version: our relay can see which phone keys sent sealed blocks to which, how large they were and when. It cannot see what was in them. If you turn on the heads-up for requests to join, your phone also checks the relay now and then while YourCelf is closed. Where a phone supports it, the relay also uses Apple's App Attest to check that what it receives comes from YourCelf, and keeps a small record of that for each phone until 30 days after it was last used. The one exception is a report. If you report a post, a comment or a reply, you send it to us unsealed (the photo if there is one, what they wrote, their name and yours, and your email if you add one) so a person here can act on it, within 24 hours. We keep a report ninety days, or a year from the day we pass it to the authorities if the law requires that; our host's backups may hold a copy up to about two weeks longer. Report and block are in the … menu on every post, comment and reply from someone else. Blocking someone stops your phone sealing what you post to them, and anything of theirs that reaches you is dropped or hidden. YourCelf is for adults, 18 and over, and is currently available in the United States. Made by Lil Dog Productions, LLC. Questions: hello@beyourcelf.com

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• Clearer about who gets your posts. In a circle someone else started, what you post goes to them, and can reach the others when they heart it or comment on it. Home and the circle screen now say so. • Lists of people name the people your phone knows and count the rest, instead of saying "Someone". • "Remove name" in Story now has Undo. • A suggested caption now follows the photos you're posting, so it won't name someone you took out. It also won't name the wrong month, or a season. • If Sensitive Content Warning is off, the post screens now say that photos aren't checked before they're sent. • YourCelf no longer keeps crash and performance reports on your phone, and deletes the ones it saved. Invite links you open are no longer written in full to your phone's log. • Clearer, truer words on a few screens.

The developer, LIL DOG PRODUCTIONS, 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 .

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    • Contact Info
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    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
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Seller
LIL DOG PRODUCTIONS, LLC
Size
13.2 MB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.4 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 26.4 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 26.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 26.4 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
18+
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  • This app is rated 18+ with content restrictions.

    Some content may be rated higher, and may therefore be restricted and managed by the developer through in-app controls.
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    Contains
    Messaging and Chat
    User-Generated Content
    Social Media
    Social Media (Age Restricted)
Copyright
© 2026 Lil Dog Productions, LLC