A small, private place for keeping up with the people you'd hate to lose touch with — and for staying close to them away from the screen too. Everyone's here under their real name.
People you actually know
You connect with someone by already having their email or phone number, or through a link they send you. There's no directory and no search by name, so your feed stays people from your real life.
Your feed, in plain order
You pick who sees each post. The feed shows things in the order they were shared — nothing ranked, boosted, or slipped in — and it tells you when you've reached the end.
Skip a topic, not a person
Tag a post #politics or #garden and anyone who follows you can quietly filter that tag out of their feed — without unfollowing you.
Your posts stay yours
On anything you post, you can turn comments off or take one down. The conversation around what you share stays in your hands.
Quiet on purpose
No streaks, no badges, no counters built to reel you back in. And every photo has its location stripped out before anyone else can see it.
About advertising
Any ad here is picked by hand and points to something real and nearby — a neighborhood event, a local diner. It isn't built to track you, and advertisers only ever see totals.
Why there's a subscription
Past a small free circle, a subscription helps cover the costs. It keeps you the customer rather than the advertisers, and takes the pressure off collecting hundreds of people you barely know.
A social contract
Heartbeat runs on a social contract: everyone here is looking after the same thing — a place that stays kind, honest, and calm to spend time in.
Read the code of conduct →That's Heartbeat.
If a quieter way to keep up with your people sounds good, come on in.