Spheres v0.4.5 — A social network built for calm, meaningful connections. No rage-bait algorithms, no ads harvesting your attention, no strangers in your feed. Just the people you actually trust.
Download Spheres v0.4.5Most social apps are designed to keep you anxious and scrolling. Spheres is designed for peace of mind — your data stays on your device, your feed shows only people you chose.
| Feature | Facebook / IG | Session / SimpleX | Spheres v0.4.5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storage Location | Company Servers | Company Servers | Decentralized Nodes | Your Device (P2P) |
| Metadata Privacy | None (Tracked) | Poor (Leaks graph) | High | High (E2E + no plaintext) |
| Phone / Email Req. | Required | Required | Optional | Not Required |
| E2E Encryption | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ (Ed25519 keys) |
| Open Source | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ (Full stack) |
| Audience Rings | ❌ (Centralized) | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (Local-only) |
| Business Model | Ads / Data Mining | Data Mining | Donations / Crypto | None (Self-hosted) |
Policies can change. Spheres is built so that even we can't access your data — because we never have it in the first place.
Your identity is a cryptographic keypair — no username, no password, no email. Only you hold your private key. All messages are signed and encrypted before leaving your device.
Messages travel through an end-to-end encrypted relay. The relay sees only opaque encrypted blobs — no message content, no social graph, no plaintext metadata.
No phone number or email required. Trust your close circle with encrypted fragments of your key via Shamir's Secret Sharing.
Export your entire social network and history into a single, passphrase-secured .spheres file for safe cold storage.
Organize contacts into private circles. You decide exactly which group sees every post through multi-wrapped encryption.
The app automatically strips GPS coordinates and device IDs from media before sharing, preventing accidental location leaks.
No account registration. No phone number. No cloud storage. Just install, create a name, and start connecting with people you trust.
v0.4.5-alpha • (stealth version) • Open Source
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