Instagram, Snapchat, and BeReal make money from your attention and your data. boopr is free to use and funded by an optional subscription, with no ads, no algorithm in your feed, and nothing on our servers we can read. Here's the difference, line by line.
Reflects each app's publicly documented features as of June 2026. These products change often. If something here is out of date, tell us at our contact page and we'll fix it.
Most of these rows aren't features someone forgot to build. They're consequences of a business model. When a company makes money from ads, your attention and your data are the inventory; when it makes money from subscriptions, you are.
An algorithmic feed exists to maximize time-in-app so there are more ad slots to sell. With no ads to sell, there's no reason to reorder your feed or inject strangers into it. Newest first is simply what's left when you remove the incentive to do anything else.
boopr encrypts every post on your device before it reaches us, so we only ever hold ciphertext. That isn't just a privacy promise. It makes targeting ads against your content or selling it technically impossible. We couldn't read your posts to monetize them if we tried.
Anyone can join, but nobody can find you. There's no search, no Discover tab, no follower count, and no one can see or message you until you accept their friend code. We don't have investors chasing a growth curve, so we don't need strangers in your feed, and there's no one to perform for.
Out now on iOS and Android. Free. No phone number, no email.