# A/SIDE - Private Social — No ads. No AI. No algorithm.

> No ads. No AI. No algorithm. (iPhone/iPad app by Lab 1908 LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aside-private-social/id6761619806 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Lab 1908 LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/986261129)
- Category: Social Networking, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 44 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-04-29
- Data updated: 2026-06-11
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aside-private-social/id6761619806/reviews.md

## What is A/SIDE?

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


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.3.3 — 2026-05-29

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.

### 1.3.1 — 2026-05-20

A/SIDE is now open source for public audit!
This update also fixes emoji reaction toggling plus reliability issues.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-05-13

Invite codes are gone. In their place: a personal invite link unique to you, of the form a-side.social/code. Tap your link or scan your QR to send a connection request — you decide whether to accept. If you ever feel like the link has spread further than you wanted, regenerate it; the old one stops working.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-05-03

• Double-tap a photo to like.
• Softer message bubble colors.
• Cleaner comment threads — deleted comments and their replies are gone for good.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-05-02

• Drag to reorder photos in a post.
• Unread dot on the Messages tab.

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