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 ...

BeReal lets you take one photo daily and share it with your friends. While you can still see your photos in the Memories section of your profile, your friends’ pictures are deleted and are no ...

No doubt you’ve seen the innumerable recent hot takes about BeReal. The French photo app, launched in early 2020 as a kind of stripped-down antidote to Instagram-style excess and gloss ...

It’s apparently time to "be real." A new app called BeReal is bringing authenticity back into the social media landscape — and it's seriously taking off. (Even "SNL" referenced it in a skit ...

People do care. They care a lot. Few things underscore that point more than the rise of a new social media app, BeReal. Billed as a way to see what your friends are really up to, BeReal prides ...

BeReal has gained significant popularity since its launch because of its refreshing, authentic approach to social media, even winning the iPhone App of the Year in 2022. Now, the app is adding ...

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 ...

On BeReal, you will find things Instagram and TikTok won’t show. Empty crawfish shells held by stained fingernails. Hastily made midnight snacks blurred by a shaky camera. Snapshots of that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. BeReal, the app known for its fleeting photo sharing window, has been acquired. On Tuesday, the French app developer Voodoo announced that it purcha ...