Live in the moment
Shoot blind now. Open together at noon.
Share photos with just your closest friends. Open them together at noon the next day.
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FLARE MANUAL / 01
How it works
- 01
Start a Roll, invite your friends
Send a code or a link. Everyone who joins gets their own film.
- 02
Shoot without a preview
Nothing appears on screen. You can't check a shot, and you can't take it again.
- 03
Open together at noon
Your photos and your friends' arrive at once — and you can see who took what.
COFOUNDER'S NOTE / 02
Why I built Flare
What do I want most right now? That question led me to start building an app called Flare this summer.
It can feel like social media gives us the freedom to connect with anyone and post anything. Yet for the past few years, I have felt the opposite: the pressure to choose words that will not upset anyone, and photos that might earn likes.
Flare removes the preview from the camera, and you cannot review a photo right after taking it. You create a group with only the friends you invite. You simply let one another know that you captured this moment, then everyone opens the photos together at noon the next day.
An outrageously unflattering selfie. A passing view or feeling. By the next day, those fragments have become vivid memories, wrapping you in a strange warmth.