A/SIDE is a private social media platform designed for friends to share photos, videos, and text posts in a secure, invitation-only environment. The service emphasizes privacy and control, offering end-to-end encrypted direct messages and group texts, with voice and video calls featuring the same encryption planned for future releases. All interactions on A/SIDE require mutual confirmation, ensuring that connections are double opt-in and that profiles remain private and undiscoverable from outside the network.
The platform delivers a strictly chronological feed, displaying posts from friends in reverse order of posting without any algorithmic ranking, suggested content, or promoted accounts. There are no ads, no engagement-based sorting, and no public discovery features. Users can organize their contacts into private lists—such as family, clubs, or other groups—to filter their feeds with one tap, while the membership of these lists remains invisible to their contacts. A/SIDE also includes an iOS home screen widget that quietly displays the latest post from a user's feed, without notifications or badge counts, and supports voice dictation for captions and messages using on-device speech recognition, ensuring that audio never leaves the user's device.
Privacy is central to A/SIDE’s design. The platform operates independently of major cloud providers and does not use ad SDKs or behavioral profiling. No user content is used for AI training, and the only AI present is Apple’s on-device speech recognition. 0 license, with code available for inspection and self-hosting. However, production secrets and user data remain private and are not included in the public repository.
A/SIDE is available for iPhone and Android. The service is free, providing access to all features with 30 days of feed and message history. Users can upgrade to Pro for $20 per year to unlock unlimited history for one person, or choose Pro Family for $60 per year to share the upgrade with up to six people. There are no monthly plans or advertisements in any tier.
A/SIDE sits in PulseGate's Social networks & creators category. A/SIDE enables users to communicate and share privately with friends through an encrypted, ad-free social platform. A/SIDE is a consumer product aimed at privacy-conscious social media users. A free plan is available; paid tiers begin at $5. It runs on the web, iOS, and Android.
It is developed by Lab 1908 LLC (United States), and the product first shipped in 2026. The project is developed in the open on GitHub with 15 commits in the last 90 days. Across PulseGate's embedding index, A/SIDE has few near neighbours, marking it as relatively distinct. Among its 6 catalogued features are end-to-end encryption, private messaging, and chronological feed.
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