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.
You've seen everyone for today. Come back tomorrow.
Stamp, in ten seconds.
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. Your circle is family and friends together, any age. The longer you use it, the more it becomes worth keeping.
One post. Every day. A hard cap.
When you only get one, you actually think about it. No feed to feed, no pressure to perform, just a single honest moment shared with the people who matter.
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.
Something you would hand down.
Every post is a moment you keep. 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
No share, no repost, no quote, 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, so you don't miss your people, and every one is a single toggle. Prefer calm? Switch to badge-only, just the quiet red dot, in two taps. No fake-urgency pings, ever.
Your data is yours
We don't sell it. We don't share it. Delete your account and everything goes with it, no recovery.
Messages nobody else can read
Your private messages and calls are end-to-end encrypted. We don't hold the keys, so we can't read them.
18+, zero tolerance
No minors. Hate, harassment and illegal content mean permanent account termination. No warnings.
£3 a month. That's the whole thing.
One price, everyone pays. Less than a coffee. Pay annually for £30 / year and save £6.
Moss, free for 30 days
Every new member starts with 30 days free, set up through your App Store or Google Play account. It only begins charging £3 a month after the 30 days, unless you cancel first.
Member, £3 / month
Or £30/year (save £6) if you'd rather not think about it. Same app either way, just less admin.
No tiers, no upsells
One plan covers everything. If you build a big circle later, we'll think about creator plans, not before.
A third of profit, to UK charity.
After costs, a third of remaining profits goes to three UK-registered charities we've selected, Cancer Research UK, Surfers Against Sewage, and the RSPB, an even 11% each, paid once a year at our financial year-end. Selection may change year on year. The rest funds the team building Stamp. Our annual accounts are filed publicly at Companies House.
One tree, one year.
Stay a Stamp member for 365 days and we plant a real tree in your name through a UK tree-planting charity. No daily requirement, no streak to maintain. Membership is the only thing asked of you.
Why once a year, tied to membership
One tree per year of membership says: you chose to stay, and that's worth a real thing in the world. It keeps the programme small enough to fund as a normal company expense, and meaningful enough to matter as it scales. 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. Open to brand partners who share the same ethic. If those conversations land, members could earn more than one tree per year, and the programme scales faster.
Everything in your hands, day one.
Everything Stamp has, described in full. These are the features the app is being built around.
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. Nothing else does this.
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 musician friends can link their own tracks directly. Your life with a score.
Your photo, your circle, today
Up to three photos 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. We don't hold the keys, so we can't read them. 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 compressed copy
Beam sends a photo at full resolution, no compression, no resize, no re-encode. It stays in the chat alongside your other messages, marked with a small blue ring so the recipient knows it's the uncompressed version. The original, passing between two people who were just together.
In numbers: up to 3 Beams a day, 30 MB per file. No compression, ever.
A quiet game when you want one
Four word games, Leaf, Root, Branch and Bloom, one a day, optional. They are there for the moment you want five minutes of quiet play. A daily ladder and a quarterly ladder run per circle if your friends are in.
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.
Profit with a purpose.
After all costs are covered, a third of our remaining profits go to three UK-registered charities, split equally so each receives 11%. The remaining two thirds funds the team building Stamp. Each year's donations are recorded in our annual accounts, filed publicly at Companies House.
Why this is different
Most companies that claim to give back either quietly donate a tiny fraction, or use charity as marketing. Stamp's commitment is structural. After costs, a third of remaining profits go to three UK-registered charities, an even 11% of profit each, paid once a year at our financial year-end. Each payment is an outright unconditional donation by Stamp Social Ltd. The charities are selected, not partners, and are under no obligation to Stamp. It is observable: our annual accounts record what the company gave.
The three charities we launch with
We select three UK-registered charities directly, so funds can flow from day one. The selection may change over time, and any change is published. They are selected, not partners, and do not endorse Stamp.
Cancer Research UK
A cause we have chosen to support. It funds research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of more than 200 types of cancer.
cancerresearchuk.org →Surfers Against Sewage
A cause we have chosen to support. A grassroots environmental charity campaigning to protect the UK's oceans, rivers and lakes from sewage and plastic pollution.
sas.org.uk →RSPB
A cause we have chosen to support. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds works to conserve birds and wildlife and restore nature across the UK.
rspb.org.uk →Stamp Social Ltd is a UK company. Each charity payment is an outright unconditional donation; charities are selected, not partners, and are under no obligation to Stamp. Members are not parties to the donations and cannot direct or enforce them. Our annual accounts, filed publicly at Companies House, are the accountability surface.
Every screen, in your hand.
Stamp is a gentle social app for the people you actually know. One post a day, only your circle, no ads, no strangers. Here is every screen, named so you can find what you came for.
Your feed
One post a day from each person in your circle, in the order it happened. No algorithm, no for-you, no strangers.
Your post, today
Up to three photos. A caption. A place if you want. Then you're done until tomorrow.
Your profile
Your day count, your soundtrack, your circle. Quiet. Yours. No vanity metrics on display.
Inner circles
Group family, school friends, your closest friends. Invite a whole inner circle to an event in one tap, and choose explicitly who can see each post you publish.
Verify your own privacy
Tap the eye on your profile and flip to what your circle sees. Then again for the stranger view. No guessing.
Stamps
Every post you've made, dropped as a pin on a personal 3D globe. Tap any pin to fly back to that moment. A quiet passport of where you've actually been.
Messages
Everything you send privately on Stamp is end-to-end encrypted. One-to-one and group messages, and the photos, voice notes and videos in them, are sealed on your device. We don't hold the keys, so we can't read them.
Plan something real
Create an event. Invite individuals or a whole inner circle in one tap. Going, maybe, or no. Plans you keep.
Your private album
Save the posts that matter through the year. At year-end we send you a full downloadable archive: every saved photo and its caption, yours to keep.
A quiet game
Four word games (Leaf, Root, Branch, Bloom), one each day, optional. A daily ladder and a quarterly ladder run per circle if your friends are in.
Share your Stamp
Your profile as a postage-stamp card. AirDrop it, message it, screenshot it. Anyone who scans it can ask to join your circle.
Customise quietly
Notifications you control, every category a single toggle, theme, account. Stamp opens on your terms, not the other way around.
Dark theme
The same quiet in low light. Tap the moon in settings, or follow your phone's system theme.
Coming to iOS and Android. One price, £3 a month or £30 a year. After all costs are covered, a third of remaining profits go to three UK-registered charities, split equally so each receives 11%, selected by Stamp Social Ltd with published rationale, subject to change.
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.
- £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, photo, voice note and message in machine-readable form. 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.
- Address-book scraping. We will never ask for your phone contacts to "find your friends".
The Pledge is a public commitment, not a legal contract. Its credibility comes from being on the public record: the instruments behind it are our Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy, and our annual accounts filed publicly at Companies House, which record each year's charity donations. If we ever amend these commitments, we will say so with a date and a reason, never silently.
Who's behind Stamp.
Stamp is a small, deliberate operation, built by one person.
Tom Binza
I've spent the last decade in customer success and customer experience inside tech companies, with a consulting background before that. Most of that work has been about understanding what users actually want, not what a product team thinks they want. That gap turned out to be the reason Stamp exists.
Personally, I was looking for a way out of mainstream social media. The algorithms, the negativity, the doomscrolling, the lack of ownership over what I'd posted, the lack of transparency about how any of it worked. I started talking to friends and family about it and realised everyone felt the same. It was time for an alternative that gives people what they actually wanted from social, and strips everything else out.
My academic background is environmental: I specialised in environmental law at university, then did a master's in environmental policy and management. I worked as an environmental consultant for several years and then spent time at a food-waste-reduction startup using machine learning in commercial kitchens. I now work in driver safety. I've always wanted my work to mean something beyond a salary, which is also why Stamp commits a third of its profits, after costs, to three UK-registered charities we select and publish our reasons for.
If you're a charity wanting to talk to us, a journalist, or a member with a question, reach out to me directly.
Stamp Social Ltd, Company No. 17188757, registered office 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ. Registered with the ICO (ZC142084) under the Data Protection Act 2018.
FAQ.
Short, plain-English answers, ordered roughly by how often we get the question. If yours isn't 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. You set Stamp up through the App Store or Google Play, so your payment method is on file from the start, and it only begins charging £3 a month after the 30 days, unless you cancel before then. Cancel any time during the trial and you pay nothing.
Where can I download it?
Stamp is coming to the iOS App Store and Google Play. No date is confirmed yet. Until then this site is the public-facing version; join the waitlist and we'll email you once when it goes live.
Which countries can I use it in?
Stamp launches in the United Kingdom first, then opens up over time, starting with English-speaking markets. Wherever Stamp is available, the £3 / £30 pricing, the Terms and the Privacy Policy stay the same. The charity pool stays UK-registered no matter where members are based.
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.
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 & 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?
Everything you send privately on Stamp is end-to-end encrypted. One-to-one and group messages, and the photos, voice notes and videos in them, are sealed on your device, we don't hold the keys. Voice and video calls use end-to-end encrypted media. 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 three photos 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 full-quality uncompressed photos (up to 3 Beams a day, 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.
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. iOS and Android are the supported platforms; this website is informational only. We aren't planning a desktop client at launch.
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 so far, by the founder, and operated by Stamp Social Ltd. We are hiring as Stamp scales.
How is Stamp funded?
By subscription revenue only. No advertising, no data sales, no sponsored content. At launch we're 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.
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 charity donations are recorded in the annual accounts we file publicly at Companies House. None of this is a guarantee, it's just observable enough that we can't quietly walk away from what we've published.
Got a question that isn't here? Write to hello@stamp.foundation and we'll answer it. If it comes up often, it lands here.