BeReal
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BeReal (stylized on the app logo as BeReal.) is a French social-networking app released in 2020, developed by Alexis Barreyat and Kévin Perreau. Currently, it is owned by Voodoo. Its main feature is a daily notification that encourages users to share photos of themselves in their day-to-day life, on any randomly selected two-minute window every day. Critics noted its emphasis on authenticity, which some felt crossed the line into the mundane. The primary reference of its name relates to its focus on users uploading unpolished photos, with it being a pun of the term B-reel.
Key facts
- Software.released
- 2020
- Software.ver layout
- stacked
- Software.title
- BeReal
- Software.logo
- BeReal. Logo.svg
- Software.author
- Alexis Barreyat, Kévin Perreau
- Software.developer
- Voodoo
- Software.programming_language
- Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android)
- Software.platform
- iOS 14 or laterAndroid
- Software.language
- English, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Software.language count
- 13
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Features
- Comparison to other platforms
- User characteristics
- Reception
- Criticisms
- References
BeReal (stylized on the app logo as BeReal.) is a French social-networking app released in 2020, developed by Alexis Barreyat and Kévin Perreau. Currently, it is owned by Voodoo. Its main feature is a daily notification that encourages users to share photos of themselves in their day-to-day life, on any randomly selected two-minute window every day. Critics noted its emphasis on authenticity, which some felt crossed the line into the mundane. The primary reference of its name relates to its focus on users uploading unpolished photos, with it being a pun of the term B-reel.
According to the app's description on Apple's App Store, BeReal encourages its users to "show their friends who they really are, for once," by removing filters and opportunities to stage or edit photos.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “BeReal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.