Leave a memory where it happened.

EchoFrame is an app for leaving memories where they happened. Take a photo, leave it at the place that made it, and someone else can only discover it by physically going there. Think of it as a living memory layer for the real world.

Memories don't come to you. You find them by being somewhere, and you leave them there when you go. EchoFrame is built around places instead of profiles, so the reward is exploring the real world, not feeding another scroll.

No, and that's the point. An echo has to be made while you are standing there. That constraint is what keeps every echo honest: a real moment from a real place.

Yes. The photo is locked away, and the server refuses to hand it over until your phone has passed a distance check at the spot. With your permission, EchoFrame can also nudge you when a memory is close, so you can find one without going looking for it.

Not in the sense you mean, and that's the whole idea. There is no gallery of things you've unlocked, no collection to complete, nothing of anyone else's filed away on your phone. But it isn't taken away from you either: an echo stays exactly where it was left. Walk back into range one day and it's on your map again, already open, because you already made the walk once. What you don't get is to carry it home. Your own echoes are yours forever; someone else's belongs to the place.

Yes, and it's built to pull you outside. When someone in your circle drops an echo, it appears wherever you are, for 24 hours. You'll see that something's waiting and how far away it is, but the photo stays locked until you physically walk into range. Miss the window and it settles back into the map like any other echo: still there if you pass by, but the nudge is gone.

You're always in control of each echo: public to anyone who passes by, or inside a private circle you choose. EchoFrame doesn't follow you around. Your position is never streamed to us, there is no table of your movements, and the query that finds echoes near you is declared read-only, so it cannot log where you looked even by accident. Nearby alerts happen on your phone, not by us watching. What we do keep is the places you acted on: echoes you left, and echoes you walked to and unlocked. That second one is the check that stops a photo being handed to someone who never made the walk. Photos are stored privately and are only ever served through short-lived links the server signs after a distance check. One honest caveat: every phone reports its own GPS, so a modified app could claim to be somewhere it isn't. That check stops casual browsing from the couch; it isn't device attestation, and we'd rather say so than pretend.

Report it and it vanishes from your map immediately, before anyone else looks at it. You can block anyone, and blocking is enforced in the database: they lose your echoes, your coordinates and your photos, including ones they'd already unlocked. Once enough of the people who actually walked to a photo report it, it hides itself automatically while we review. We aim to look at every report within 24 hours, and we remove anything that breaks the rules. We don't pre-screen photos with a machine, so we depend on reports. That's exactly why reporting is one tap and takes effect instantly.

EchoFrame is in active development. The heart of it already works: the map, the camera, echoes that wait at real places, and the nudge when you're near one. Request early access to get the preview build and help shape what this memory layer becomes.

EchoFrame is one app for both iPhone and Android: same map, same echoes. During early access, preview builds roll out on Android first, with iOS following as we head to the app-store launch.