It’s called BeReal, and it combines nostalgia for social apps that came before with an anxiety about the world those apps created. While it’s impossible to say how big it could grow — or how ...

Now, one app is attempting to change all of that. The French photo-sharing platform BeReal bills itself as "not another social network" and encourages users to post "real" content. The app ...

Taking a screenshot of someone else’s BeReal appears to be a consequence-free affair. There’s zero feedback from the app, which makes it seem the same as taking a screenshot of someone’s ...

A two-year-old French photo-sharing app is earning the highest form of flattery from Big Tech’s social media titans: imitation. BeReal, which prompts users once per day to snap and share a quick ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. BeReal, the social media company focused on authenticity, is launching a feed dedicated ...

It may not exactly be the venture exit of, say, investor Andreessen Horowitz’s dreams. But keep in mind that BeReal’s peak valuation in 2022 was $600 million, which makes this…a pretty good outcome.

Casey Newton is a contributing editor who has been writing about tech for over 10 years. He founded Platformer, a newsletter about Big Tech and democracy. The ongoing collapse of Twitter has lots ...

The creation and rapidly developing popularity of BeReal, an app that seeks to embody the idea of authentic social media, proves that authentic social media is an oxymoron. BeReal sends users a ...

Photo-sharing app BeReal invites users to share glimpses of their real lives rather than carefully staged moments, winning fans with the bid for authenticity ...

BeReal just announced a major change for its app with the global launch of RealPeople and RealBrands. With this update, the real-life-moments app adds support for official accounts for notable ...