Air vs plouc

• Send end-to-end encrypted texts, photos, videos, and documents. • Create group chats with friends and family. Feel free to bring your coworkers too. • Air doesn’t collect sensitive information like your phone number or email address, and doesn’t store metadata, like who you talk to and when. • Air is open-source, and is based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol and open standards. • Air is designed, built, and hosted in the European Union (EU). • Air is not supported by investors or advertisers, and you can see Air’s funders at the Air website. Air is regularly updated with new features and improvements.

Don’t you hate when you see someone in public and either they’re cute or you may have seen them somewhere before but there’s no easy way to get their Instagram or Snapchat? You could go up to them and ask, but that’s just so awkward and weird. This is where Plouc comes in! Plouc lets you share and find in real-time the social media of others in your physical vicinity. Perfect for college students and young people who are looking to find networking and romantic opportunities, or up-and-coming influencers and models who want people to find and follow them, this application is geared towards anyone trying to organically build their social capital. How does it work? To get started, you create an account and upload a profile picture of yourself and add at least one of the following social media handles: Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Facebook, TikTok Next, you either let Plouc automatically access your location or you can manually enter where you are. Once you're on the map, click on any other Plouc profiles in your area to see their social media handles. The best thing is that you can switch on and off your location whenever you feel like!