Pixeldrop

A week worth
opening.

Pixeldrop is a photo app with a weekly rhythm. Gather moments as they happen. Then, once a week, the Drop opens for the people you've chosen, all at once. Read the week, reply to the people you love, and be done.

See a week open How it's built

One Drop, start to finish

Ten minutes, once a week.

This is the whole loop: what opens, what you see, and the ending you actually reach.

Real iOS Notification Center showing exactly one Pixeldrop notification that this week's Drop is ready, with the installed pixel-orb app icon.

The Drop is ready

One notification a week. This is it.

Real dark Week 28 opening cover with guest avatars, weekly counts, and a swipe-to-enter prompt.

The week opens

Like something wrapped. You can already see the shape of it.

Real Week 28 Grid with one Stories shelf and a photo-rich two-column weekly mosaic.

Everyone, once

The whole week in one view. No ranking, no refresh. Just your people.

Real fictional Ava Sol studio post showing flowers in a blue vase on a paint-marked worktable, with the matching Friday studio caption beneath it.

Reading

Photos stay photos. The caption rests underneath, like a note.

Real expanded fictional Ava Sol post pane with comments from Mira Vale, Jules Carter, and Sana Noor, plus Private reply selected and Shared comment unselected.

Answering

Say it to the person, not the room.

Real opaque dark weekly ending with Done for now, weekly totals, and two exit gestures.

The ending

Done for now. Back to your Friday.

That's the product. It happens once a week, and it ends.

Who it's for

Made for the people you'd hand your phone to.

Circles

Group your people the way you actually think of them: family, the group chat, old friends. Every moment you share is for the circles you choose, and your choices stay yours. Nobody sees how you've organized the people in your life.

CSS-only lower-pane crop of the same untouched real fictional Ava comments capture, focused on the composer with Private reply selected, Shared comment unselected, and Send visible.

Private replies

The first way to respond is a message to the person, with their moment attached. Conversations start where they'd naturally happen, between the two of you.

Places for memory

Profiles and collections hold what's worth keeping. A drop ends. The things you loved in it don't disappear.

CSS-only top-half crop of the untouched real Pixeldrop Messages inbox, showing its header, search and filters, and the first fictional conversation rows.

Messages

Every drop starts conversations. Messages keeps them in one place: private replies arrive with the moment attached, so you both know exactly what you're talking about.

How it's built

Built small, on purpose.

One person, many tools.

Pixeldrop is currently built by one person, with a lot of help from AI. The code gets written fast. The decisions about what this app values, and what it will never do to the people using it, stay human.

No tracking, no ad machine.

Pixeldrop does not profile you and is not built to sell your attention. The long-term plan is federation: many small servers run by people, like personal blogs or group chats. Small servers do not need ads to survive, and this one never will.

What's ahead, plainly.

A small private beta is running now. A public beta is targeted for September 2026. Open source and federation come after the core is stable and reviewed. If any of this changes, this page will change with it.

Where things stand

A small first group is using Pixeldrop now.

Pixeldrop is in private beta with a handful of people, opening real weekly drops together. This stage is deliberately small: the weekly ritual has to feel right for ten people before it can mean anything for more.

FAQ

FAQ

What's a Drop?

One shared week. Everyone gathers moments as the week happens. On Friday evening the week opens for everyone at once. You read it start to finish. There's a beginning and an end.

When does the Drop open?

Friday evening, for everyone on the same rhythm. Half the point is knowing the people you love are opening the same week you are.

What are Circles and the Lens?

Circles are how you group your people. Every moment is shared to the circles you choose. The Lens is your own viewing filter. See just family, or just the friends you're missing, without your choices ever being visible to anyone else.

How is this different from the feeds I already have?

Mostly by rhythm and ending. Nothing here is ranked or engineered to keep you scrolling. The week has a shape, you reach the end of it, and the app is designed to be put down. Pixeldrop isn't trying to replace anything. It's trying to be the best place for the moments that matter to a smaller set of people.

Can I use it?

Not yet, unless you're in the first beta group. Pixeldrop is deliberately small right now while the weekly ritual gets proven with real people. A public beta is targeted for September 2026.

Say hello

General interest, beta questions, or want to help build Pixeldrop? Reach out: admin@pixeldrop.social