No algorithm. No ads. Just the people you love.
Stamp is where your real circle, family and friends, every generation, share one moment a day. It becomes a record of your actual life. Quiet by design. Private by default.
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One post. A day. Per person. A hard cap.
The missing digital heir to the family photo album. Not a feed to scroll, a place where your real life accumulates day by day, year by year. Here is one ordinary day in it.
07:40
Your feed, first thing
One post a day from each person in your circle, in the order it happened. No algorithm, no for-you, no strangers.
There is a real bottom to it. You have seen everyone for today, so come back tomorrow.
08:55
When you only get one, you think about it
Up to ten photos or short videos, 30 seconds each. A caption. A place if you want. Then you are done until tomorrow.
No feed to feed, no pressure to perform, just a single honest moment shared with the people who matter.
11:20
Your circle is chosen, never collected
Asking someone into your circle is a real, significant act, not a follower count. Everyone is chosen deliberately, connections are mutual. No strangers, no public anything.
Your day count, your soundtrack, your circle. Quiet. Yours. No vanity metrics on display.
Your profile doubles as a postage-stamp card. AirDrop it, message it, screenshot it. Anyone who scans it can ask to join your circle.
13:40
See exactly what your circle sees
Tap the eye on your own profile and your view flips to what your circle sees. Tap again for the stranger view, on the right.
No guessing, no separate preview page. Verify your own privacy before you post anything.
17:30
Plan something real with your people
Create an event, invite individuals or a whole inner circle in one tap. Going, maybe, or no.
RSVPs stay visible so you can actually plan around the answer.
20:15
Five minutes, if you want them
Leaf, Root, Branch and Bloom. One a day, optional, and quiet. There for the moment you want five minutes of play, not a reason to open the app. A daily ladder and a quarterly ladder run inside your circle if your friends are in.
- Leaf
- A short one. Five minutes at the kitchen table, then it is done.
- Root
- Dig down through the word until you hit the one holding the rest up.
- Branch
- One word grows into the next. Follow it out as far as it goes.
- Bloom
- The long one. Petals of letters, and a word you will be annoyed you missed.
22:40
Something you would hand down
Save the posts that matter through the year. They live in your private album, and at year-end we send you a full downloadable archive: every saved photo and its caption, yours to keep on your own device.
The archive grows whether you think about it or not. After years, it is something you would hand down.
What we hold ourselves to.
The quiet rules that make Stamp different. Not features we might change later, commitments.
No algorithm, ever
Your feed is chronological, what happened in the order it happened. Nothing ranked, nothing boosted, no “for you”, no rage-bait bubbling to the top.
No ads. Ever.
We pay the bills through a small, honest subscription. Your attention is never sold, not now, not ever.
Nothing here can go viral
Posts cannot be shared, reposted or quoted out of your circle. No public amplification. What you share with your circle stays with your circle. That freedom is the point.
Your circle is chosen, not collected
Connecting needs both people to agree. No follow button, no one-sided access, no contact-list sweep.
Notifications, your way
Every category is on to start with, and every one is a single toggle. Turn off any or all of them in two taps. No fake-urgency pings, ever.
Your data is yours
We do not sell it. We do not share it. Delete your account and everything goes with it, no recovery.
Messages nobody else can read
One-to-one and group messages, and the photos, voice notes and videos inside them, are end-to-end encrypted. We do not hold the keys, so we cannot read them. Beams and GIFs are sent over encrypted connections and stored encrypted at rest, but are not end-to-end encrypted.
18+, zero tolerance
No minors. Hate, harassment and illegal content mean permanent account termination. No warnings.
Eleven things Stamp does.
- Your life on a real globe
- Tag a post with a place and it drops a pin on a personal 3D globe, yours alone. Tap any pin to fly back to that moment. Country flags collect into a quiet passport of where you’ve actually been, visible only to your circle.
- A private album that stays yours
- Save the posts that matter through the year. They live in your private album. At year-end we send you a full downloadable archive: every saved photo and its caption, yours to keep on your own device.
- Your profile, with its own soundtrack
- Pin a 30-second song to your profile or to any individual post. It plays quietly as your circle scrolls past. Your life with a score.
- Your photo, your circle, today
- Up to ten photos or short videos (30 seconds each) and a caption, posted once a day to the people in your circle only. Chronological, nothing re-ranked. Flip the card over and see exactly who’s looked, a list only you can read.
- Messages nobody else can read
- Private messages and calls are end-to-end encrypted: one-to-one and group chats, plus the photos, voice notes and videos inside them, are sealed on your device. Posts, events and profiles aren’t end-to-end encrypted by design, they’re meant for your circle, but they’re protected by TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest and row-level security.
- A full-featured chat, quietly
- React, quote-reply, send voice notes, stage a photo before it goes, pin important chats, schedule a message for later. Everything a modern messenger gives you, inside the encrypted layer.
- Send the original, not a shrunken copy
- Ordinary chat photos get resized down to save space. Beam doesn’t: Beam keeps your photo at its full original resolution, never downscaled. It is re-encoded once at near-lossless quality, which is what strips the GPS location out of the file before it reaches the recipient. Up to 3 Beams a day in each chat, 30 MB per file.
- Plan something real with your people
- Create an event, invite individuals or a whole inner circle in one tap. Going, maybe, or no. RSVPs stay visible so you can actually plan around the answer.
- Smaller circles inside your circle
- Keep a group for family, one for your closest friends, one for friends from school. Each stays private to you. Invite an inner circle to something in one tap, and choose explicitly who can see each post you publish.
- Tag a friend, gently
- Tag someone in a post and they get a quiet notification. The tagged post lands in their Ours sub-tab on their profile, where people in your mutual circle can see it when they visit. Nothing else posts on their behalf.
- See exactly what your circle sees
- Tap the eye on your own profile and your view flips to what your circle sees. Tap again for the stranger view. No guessing, no separate preview page. Verify your own privacy before you post anything.
Every screen, in your hand.
Named, so you can find what you came for.
Stamp, in ten seconds.
Press play when you have a moment. It never starts on its own, and it never plays sound until you ask it to.
£3
A month. That is the whole thing.
One price, everyone pays. No tiers, no add-ons, nothing held back for a higher plan.
30 days free
Every new member starts with 30 days free from the moment they sign up. No card needed, and nothing charges automatically at the end of it.
£3 a month, or £30 a year
The yearly price saves you six. Same app either way, just less admin.
No tiers, no upsells
One plan covers everything. There is no upgrade, no premium tier and nothing extra to buy.
33%
Of profit, after costs, to three UK-registered charities.
An even 11% each, paid once a year at our financial year-end. The rest funds the team building Stamp. Each payment is an outright unconditional donation by Stamp Social Ltd; the charities are selected, not partners, and are under no obligation to us.
We are a UK company. Our annual accounts are filed every year at Companies House, and that is where the company’s figures are published.
| Selected charity | Share | When |
|---|---|---|
| Cancer Research UK Nearly every family has a story about this one. Cancer Research UK funds the scientists, doctors and nurses working on prevention, diagnosis and treatment for more than 200 types of cancer, across institutes and centres around the country. |
11% | Annually, at our financial year-end |
| Surfers Against Sewage You should be able to swim in a British river without checking a map first. Surfers Against Sewage is a grassroots charity that publishes real-time sewage alerts for the coast and rivers, and campaigns to end the discharges and cut the plastic that ends up in the same water. |
11% | Annually, at our financial year-end |
| RSPB Britain has lost a great deal of its birdsong inside one lifetime. The RSPB manages more than 200 nature reserves across the UK, and works to bring back the species that used to be ordinary. |
11% | Annually, at our financial year-end |
| Annual accounts, filed every year at Companies House | 33% | Of profit, after costs |
They are selected, not partners: under no obligation to Stamp, not endorsing Stamp, and no logo of theirs appears here. A charity cannot enter a partnership with a company that has no filing history behind it, so nothing here should be read as one. Selection may change year on year, and any change is published before it takes effect. If the company makes no profit in a year, no donation is made for that year and no shortfall carries forward. Members are not parties to the donations and cannot direct them.
The full record, and why each one
One tree, one year.
Stay a Stamp member for 365 days and we pay for a real tree to be planted in your name, out of our own pocket and receipted. No daily requirement, no streak to maintain. Membership is the only thing asked of you.
One tree per year of membership says: you chose to stay, and that is worth a real thing in the world. Year two earns a second tree. It compounds, quietly.
Paid as a company operating cost, before profits are split between charity and the team. Never drawn from the charity pool.
The Stamp Pledge.
Here is what we will always do, even when it costs us, and what we promise we will never build, no matter the growth pressure.
What we will always do
One post a day, per member.Quality over quantity, by design. The single-post limit is a feature, not something we relax under growth pressure.
Only your circle sees your posts.No public timeline, no explore, no content strangers can browse. The audience is invited only.
After costs, a third of profit to charity.A third of actual post-cost profit, donated by Stamp Social Ltd, not by members. Three UK-registered charities share it equally, an even 11% of profit each, once a year. No profit that year, no donation that year.
Three selected charities, with published rationale.Stamp Social Ltd selects the three directly, with the reasoning published alongside each name. They are selected, not partners, under no obligation to us, and the choice can change over time, with any change published. Our annual accounts are filed every year at Companies House, and that is where the company’s figures are published.
£3 a month or £30 a year, never adjusted arbitrarily.If we ever need to change it, we give at least 30 days’ notice and the option to cancel without penalty.
Delete that actually deletes.Settings, Delete account wipes your live data immediately. Backups roll off within 7 days. No deactivated purgatory.
Full data portability.Export every post, caption, album save and profile field, with signed links to your photos, in machine-readable form. Encrypted messages are included as ciphertext, which only your device can open. We honour it within one month.
Plain-English Terms and Privacy.Documents you might actually read. No hidden waivers, no 30-page click-through.
What we will never build
Algorithmic ranking.Your feed is chronological, full stop. We won’t curate it for engagement.
Infinite scroll.There’s a real bottom to the feed. Closing the app is the intended finish line.
Public popularity scoreboards.No likes metric, no view counts. Stamp is for sharing, not for being scored.
Advertising of any kind.No ads, no boosted posts. Every member pays the same flat fee.
Tracking pixels and behavioural profiles.We don’t track what you read or where you linger. Crash reports and aggregate counts only.
Selling, sharing or licensing your data.Not at any price, not under any acquisition.
“For You” or “Recommended” surfaces.No discovery feed, no “people you might know”, no trending. You add someone only by inviting them.
Dark patterns to inflate engagement.No manipulative streaks, no fake-urgency pings. Stamp tracks your days as a member, not your daily activity.
Notifications you can’t turn off.Notifications are on to start with, so you actually hear from the people who matter, but every category is a single toggle. Turn any or all of them off in two taps. We never bury the off switch.
Live status, typing indicators or read receipts you can’t turn off.No surveillance theatre, no typing-indicator pressure, no green presence dot showing when you were last on. If you want to be seen, you will be seen by what you post, which is once a day, when you choose.
Address-book scraping.We will never ask for your phone contacts to “find your friends”.
How this is held to. The Pledge is a public commitment, not a legal contract, and is not enforceable as one. Its credibility comes from being on the public record. If we ever broke a pledge, we would have to do it in front of every member, every journalist and every regulator who cares to look. That is the point. The instruments behind the words on this page are our Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy, and our annual accounts, filed every year at Companies House, where the company’s figures are published. Receiving charities are selected, not partners, and each payment is an outright unconditional donation. Members are not parties to those donations and cannot direct or enforce them; members’ enforceable rights remain their consumer-protection and data-protection rights at law.
This page versions over time. If we ever amend these commitments, we will say so with a date and a reason, never silently. Nothing on this page is intended to create rights or obligations beyond what UK law requires; your statutory consumer, data-protection and moderation-appeal rights stand on their own.
Who is behind Stamp.
Stamp is a small, deliberate operation, built by one person. Not a studio, not a growth team, not a venture-backed launch. One founder, working evenings and weekends, paying for it out of his own pocket and recording it as a director’s loan the company repays out of revenue.
Nobody has to be persuaded to keep the feed chronological. There is no board asking where the ad revenue is, and no investor who needs the numbers to double. The commitments on the Pledge are cheap to keep because there is nobody inside the company whose job is to break them.
It also sets the pace honestly. Stamp gets built slowly, in the order that makes the product better rather than the order that makes a chart go up.
Who to write to
Every address reaches the same desk. Use whichever fits and it gets answered.
General, press, charities
hello@stamp.foundation, answered within 48 hours on weekdays.
Privacy and data requests
privacy@stamp.foundation, answered within one calendar month, usually far sooner.
Reporting a post or account
safety@stamp.foundation. To appeal a decision, appeals@stamp.foundation.
Questions.
Short, plain-English answers, ordered roughly by how often we get the question. If yours is not here, write to us at hello@stamp.foundation.
The basics
What is Stamp?
Stamp is a small, paid social app for the people you already know. One post a day, only your invited circle sees it. No ads, no algorithm, no strangers, no public feed. A gentler way to share, designed so you put your phone down once you’ve seen what your circle is up to.
How much does Stamp cost?
£3 per month, or £30 a year (save £6). Everyone pays the same price. No tiers, no premium add-ons, no upsells. The flat fee is how we pay the bills without selling your attention to advertisers.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Every new member gets 30 days free, starting the moment you sign up. You do not need to enter a card, and nothing is charged automatically when the 30 days are up. If you want to carry on afterwards, you take out the membership yourself through the App Store or Google Play for £3 a month. If you do nothing, your account simply becomes read-only: you keep everything you have posted and can still look around, you just stop being able to post and message.
How do I get it?
Stamp is a phone app, on iPhone and Android. Leave your email on the home page and we will send you the link.
Which countries can I use it in?
Stamp is available in the United Kingdom. The £3 / £30 pricing, the Terms and the Privacy Policy are the same for every member, and the charity pool is UK-registered.
Charity
How exactly does Stamp give to charity?
You pay £3 a month to Stamp Social Ltd, the UK company that operates the app. From whatever profit the company has left at the end of each financial year, after paying every cost and tax, we set aside a third. That third is donated to three UK-registered charities, split equally so each gets 11% of profit; the rest is reinvested in Stamp. We pay once a year, at our financial year-end, and our annual accounts are filed publicly at Companies House. The donation is made by the company, not by you.
If the company makes no profit in a year, no donation is made for that year and no shortfall accrues against a later year.
Which charities get money, and when?
Three UK-registered charities at a time, Cancer Research UK, Surfers Against Sewage and the RSPB, equal split, paid once a year at our financial year-end. We select the three directly, with the reasons published alongside each name. The selection may change over time, and any change is published before it takes effect.
Why only three charities?
Three is deliberate. Splitting the pool three ways instead of ten means each charity receives a materially larger share, which matters more than breadth at our scale. Three also keeps it legible: anyone can see exactly where the charity share goes and why each one was chosen. The longer rationale is on the charities page.
What’s the difference between Stamp and a charity?
Stamp is not a charity. Stamp is a UK limited company (Stamp Social Ltd, Company No. 17188757) that operates a paid app. The trading name “Stamp Foundation” is a brand, not a separate legal entity. The three charities the company donates to are UK-registered charities. The money flows directly from Stamp Social Ltd to each registered charity.
Will I get a tax receipt for my subscription?
No. Your £3 / £30 is a subscription payment for a product, not a charitable donation. The donation to charity is made by Stamp Social Ltd from the company’s post-cost profit, so any charitable-giving tax treatment sits with the company, not with you.
Privacy and data
Who can see what I post?
Only the people in your circle. Every connection is mutual: you request, they accept, then your posts are visible to them and theirs to you. No public profile, no follower mechanic, no explore feed. You can also publish a post to a smaller inner circle inside your wider circle.
Are my messages and calls encrypted?
One-to-one and group messages, and the photos, voice notes and videos inside them, are end-to-end encrypted. They are sealed on your device, we don’t hold the keys. Voice and video calls use end-to-end encrypted media. Beams and GIFs are sent over encrypted connections and stored encrypted at rest, but are not end-to-end encrypted. Posts, events and profile fields are not end-to-end encrypted by design, they’re meant for your circle, but they’re protected by TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest and row-level security.
What data does Stamp collect?
Account information (name, handle, email, hashed password, birthday if you add one), the content you post, your circle relationships, and basic device information needed to deliver the app. A place is only attached to a post when you type one onto it yourself; we never read your device location or GPS. No advertising identifiers, no third-party trackers, no contact-list upload.
How do I delete my account, or get a copy of my data?
Delete: in the app, Profile, Settings, Delete account. Your posts, profile, circle records, messages, voice notes and album are wiped from our live systems immediately, and backups roll off within 7 days.
Export: Profile, Settings, Email me my data packs everything into a structured file and emails you a link. For any other UK GDPR request, email privacy@stamp.foundation and we’ll respond within one month. You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).
Do you sell my data?
No. We don’t sell it, we don’t share it with advertisers, we don’t license it. We use a small number of operational sub-processors (hosting, payments, error reporting, image-safety scanning) under data-processing agreements so they handle it only on our behalf.
Using the app
Can I post photos, videos and music?
Each daily post can include up to ten photos or short videos (30 seconds each) and a caption. Inside chat you can send voice notes and photos to people in your circle. You can pin a 30-second song preview to your profile or to an individual post. Beam, a separate chat feature, sends photos at their full original resolution, never downscaled (up to 3 Beams a day in each chat, 30 MB per file).
Is there an algorithm sorting my feed?
No. Your feed is chronological and that is a deliberate commitment, not a default you can switch. There is no for-you tab, no recommendation, no engagement-ranking, no boosted posts.
How do circles, inner circles and the wider view work?
Your circle is the set of people you have mutually connected with on Stamp. Everyone in your circle can see your daily post by default, and you can see theirs. Inner circles are smaller groupings you create inside your circle, for family, school friends, work, and so on. When you post you can choose to publish to your full circle or to a specific inner circle. You can also flip your own profile to a view-as-your-circle mode to check what your circle actually sees, before you post anything. See it in the screens.
What happens if someone reports me, or I report someone else?
Reports go to a human reviewer, not an algorithm. For clearly illegal material we act within 24 hours and report to the relevant authorities. For policy-breach material that isn’t unlawful, we acknowledge within 48 hours and decide within 7 days. If your content or account is actioned, you get a written reason and a working appeal route to a different reviewer.
Can I use Stamp on my computer?
Stamp is built for phones. iPhone and Android are the supported platforms; this website is informational only. There is no desktop client.
Your account
How do I cancel?
On iPhone: iOS Settings, your name, Subscriptions, Stamp, Cancel. On Android: Play Store, your profile picture, Payments & subscriptions, Subscriptions, Stamp, Cancel. Cancellations take effect at the end of the period you’ve already paid for.
What happens if I cancel?
You keep full access until the end of the period you’ve paid for. After that your account becomes a read-only seat: you still see your circle, every post and event, and can still receive messages, but you can’t post, reply, react or RSVP until you resume. Resuming is one tap. Your account is not deleted automatically.
Can I get a refund?
Refunds for subscriptions purchased on iPhone or Android are handled by Apple and Google respectively, under their own policies. Your statutory rights under the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015 apply either way.
I need support, where do I write?
For most things, hello@stamp.foundation. We aim to reply within 48 hours on weekdays. For privacy or data questions, privacy@stamp.foundation. To report a post or account, safety@stamp.foundation. To appeal a moderation decision, appeals@stamp.foundation.
Who runs Stamp
Who is behind Stamp?
Stamp is built solo, by the founder, and operated by Stamp Social Ltd. We are hiring as Stamp scales. The founder, in his own words.
How is Stamp funded?
By subscription revenue only. No advertising, no data sales, no sponsored content. We are not raising outside investment; the founder has put in personal money, recorded as a director’s loan the company repays out of revenue. If we ever raise in future, we’ll say so here and on the company filings.
Where is Stamp based?
The company is registered in England and Wales. Stamp Social Ltd, Company No. 17188757, registered office 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ. The company is registered with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office under the Data Protection Act 2018, registration number ZC142084. These details appear in the footer of every page and in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
How can I trust you?
You don’t have to take our word for it. The company is on the public Companies House register (No. 17188757). It’s on the public ICO register (ZC142084) as a data controller. And our annual accounts are filed every year at Companies House, where the company’s figures are published. None of this is a guarantee, it’s just observable enough that we can’t quietly walk away from what we’ve published.
A record of your actual life, kept with the people in it.
£3 a month. No algorithm, no ads, no strangers. A third of profit, after costs, to charity.
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