Ping

Your friends' photos, on your phone, in order.

Your private social network. No algorithm, no ads, no account.

Coming to the App Store How it works

Requires iPhone 15 Pro or later. iOS 26.

Three things. Nothing else.

  • It's yours

    Your friends' photos and videos live on your phone. The real files, at full quality. Not previews. Not links to someone's server.

    Turn on airplane mode. It's all still there, full size.

  • No algorithm

    Posts appear in the order they were posted. That's the only order there is. Nothing ranked, boosted, suggested or held back.

    Nothing in Ping computes a score for anything you see.

  • Nobody in the middle

    No account. No email, no phone number, no password. What you post is locked for the friends you sent it to before it leaves your phone.

    We can't read your posts or your messages. There's nothing for us to read.

No signal. Full quality.

Everything your friends have sent is already on your phone, at full size. On a plane, in a basement, three stops into the subway — it makes no difference.

What's in it

  • The feed

    Your friends, in order, at full quality. Signal optional.

  • Conversations

    One to one and in groups. Photos, GIFs, voice notes.

  • What you can post

    Photos, videos, live photos, a voice note, where you were, what you were listening to, a workout.

  • Storage you control

    Choose how far back your phone keeps things. See exactly what it's using.

Reactions show faces, not counts. No scores, no follower numbers, no leaderboards. Notifications tell you who. Never what.

What's not in it

no ads · no algorithm · no like counts · no followers · no strangers · no account · no analytics

No one can search for you, request you, or be suggested you. You add friends one at a time. In person, or with a link.

At a glance

What Ping is
Your private social network. The people you actually know, and no one else. There's chat in it, but what you keep is everything you've all posted.
Where your friends' photos are stored
On your phone, and on the phones of the friends they were sent to. That's the whole list.
Feed order
Chronological. Always. No ranking, no recommendations.
Account
There isn't one. No email, no phone number, no password. Your iPhone is your identity.
How quickly posts arrive
Near instant. Posts land in seconds, at full quality, on 5G or Wi-Fi.
Price
Free, for up to 150 friends. No ads, and nothing about you to sell. One optional extra, Memory, keeps your posts for three years.
Requirements
iPhone 15 Pro or later, running iOS 26. No Android version today.
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