Social Media built from your friends

Everyone here
was invited.

Nobody arrives in your Badger uninvited — there are no strangers to block and no algorithm to game, because you can't be searched for, listed, or stumbled upon. Talk in private encrypted feeds built from your own contacts, and share exactly as much of yourself as you feel like, with exactly the people you choose.

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End-to-end encrypted · Unlisted · Free to start

Your circle
Only people you invited or accepted — no strangers, no algorithm
E2EE
Every message, photo, video and file encrypted end-to-end
Both ways
Sharing is reciprocal — nobody gets a one-way mirror
Your call
Six switches, three layers, and a Ghost Mode that means it
What Badger does

Everything your circle needs — nothing it doesn’t.

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One feed for your people

Every conversation is a private feed.

Whether it’s just you and one friend or a whole group, a Badger conversation is a calm, scrolling feed of posts — the format you know from the big social apps, but end-to-end encrypted and built from your own contacts. Everyone you see is someone you chose. No strangers, no algorithm, and ads you can switch off.

  • Built from your contacts — invite by email, or swap BadgerCodes
  • A chat with one friend works exactly like a group
  • Post with a tap, or type in a familiar expanding composer
  • Quotes, likes, @mentions, #hashtags and pinned posts
  • Encrypted photos, video, voice notes, files, GIFs and stickers
  • Archive what’s gone quiet — or tuck it away in a hidden vault
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Privacy you actually hold

You decide. Every time. Both ways.

Your messages are encrypted so thoroughly that we couldn’t read them if we wanted to. But privacy is more than encryption, so everything about you — your mood, your status, whether you’re on a map at all — sits behind switches you own. And every one of them is reciprocal: if you don’t share it, you don’t see it either.

  • Three layers, stacking one way — your account settings can always share less than a group wants, never more
  • Six things to choose about: location, mood, status, status emoji, read receipts, and whether people may save your media
  • Set them once for everything, then differently for any single conversation
  • Reciprocal by design — no one-way mirrors, ever
  • Ghost Mode parks you off every map at once, in one tap

How the three layers work →

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If you want it

The same people, seen a different way.

Any conversation can be flipped from its feed to a map of just the people in it — handy for “are we still on?”, easy to ignore the rest of the time. It’s an option, not the point: plenty of people use Badger purely for the conversations and never switch a map on at all.

  • Off unless you say otherwise, per conversation
  • In a one-to-one chat, the map only exists if you both turn it on
  • Markers carry a mood aura, a status emoji and — if you opt in — what you’re up to
  • Light on battery: location sleeps entirely when nobody’s looking
Everything in one place

Built for the people who matter.

Badger is the social media you used to love — before the strangers, the outrage machine and the AI slop. Every conversation, big or small, is just your actual friends, talking like people.

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Chats & groups

A group for the weekend or a chat with one person — both are the same private feed, encrypted end-to-end.

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Posts

Quote, like, @mention and pin. Share a moment with a whole group — like a campfire, not a megaphone.

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Rich media

Photos, videos, voice notes, files, GIFs and stickers — all encrypted, all inside the conversation.

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Feeds from the web

A group can follow public Bluesky, Reddit or RSS accounts — a shared reading room, kept well apart from your private messages.

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Moods & status

Say how you’re doing without having to say anything. Two moods, a status emoji, and a line of your own — each shared only with whoever you choose.

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Notifications you control

Pick which kinds reach you — messages, mentions, replies, reactions, invitations — for everything, or for one noisy group. They never carry your message contents.

How it works

Up and running in three taps.

1

Come in on an invite

Someone you know sends you one. Sign in with Apple, Google or a magic email link — no passwords to remember, no spam.

2

Add your people

Invite friends from your contacts, or swap BadgerCodes. Start a one-to-one chat or name a group — you’re talking straight away.

3

Choose what you share

Mood, status, read receipts, whether you’re on a map at all. Set it once, change it per conversation, and change your mind whenever you like.

Privacy, not an afterthought

Yours to share. Yours to hide.

Badger starts closed and opens only where you open it. Nobody can find you, add you or follow you — they have to be let in. Conversations are end-to-end encrypted. Everything else about you sits behind a switch you hold, and works in both directions.

  • Unlisted: there is no search, no discover tab, no “people you may know”
  • End-to-end encryption we can’t read past — messages, photos, video, voice notes and files
  • Layered controls: your account-wide privacy always overrides any group’s
  • Reciprocal sharing: what you withhold, you don’t receive either
  • Ghost Mode parks you off every map completely
  • Ads use only the interest categories you pick — never your identity, messages or location
  • No AI reading, summarising or training on anything you write

Read the full privacy policy →

Simple pricing

Free to use. Plus if you love it.

The social part is all free, forever — every conversation, every privacy control, the same encryption. Badger+ lifts the limits on big things and takes the ads away.

Badger

Free

Everything you need to stay close to your people.

  • Unlimited chats and groups
  • Every privacy control, and the same encryption
  • Photos, GIFs, stickers and files up to 1 MB
  • Videos up to 30 seconds, voice notes up to a minute
  • Feeds from Bluesky, Reddit and RSS
  • A few unobtrusive ads, keyed only to interests you pick
Get Badger

Monthly or annual — the annual plan is around 39% cheaper. Your app store shows the exact price in your own currency before you buy anything.