circled.me vs Taldea

The circled.me project aims to help people host their own server for video calls, photos and albums, be able to share them, chat and more. Currently available features include: - Video Calls + browser support - Photo/Video Backup - Face detection and tagging - Shared Albums - with another user or to anyone using a secret link - Chats - invite any number of people - Filter Photos by person, year, season, location, etc - Photo Moments - Manual uploads - Video compression You need to have an access or invitation to connect to a circled.me community server to be able to use this app.

Taldea is a private space for sharing real moments with real people. There are no profiles, no likes, no comments and no followers. Just small groups where photos appear, live for a while, and disappear. You create a group or join one through a private link or QR code. Photos shared inside the group last 24 hours and then vanish. There’s no public visibility, no search and no algorithm deciding what matters. If you don’t have the link, the group simply doesn’t exist. Most social apps are about being seen. Taldea is about being present. There’s nothing to collect, nothing to perform and nothing to keep forever. Photos can’t be edited, reacted to or ranked. You just share — or you don’t. Taldea is built for calm. Groups are private by design, content disappears automatically and external sharing inside the app is not supported. Screenshots are discouraged to keep moments where they belong. Taldea is not trying to win your attention. It’s trying to deserve a moment of it.