People around you.
Nearby identities appear only while the app has fresh physical-proximity evidence. As people move, the set of active nearby relationships refreshes automatically.
Built for iPhone · coming soon
Social without the
Internet in the middle.
ShortbliP turns physical proximity into a private social experience. Nearby devices discover each other, authenticate directly and exchange encrypted content over local peer-to-peer networking. The core social plane does not depend on a ShortbliP cloud database.
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Nearby is the network.
ShortbliP separates discovery from data transfer: Bluetooth establishes nearby presence, while peer-to-peer local networking carries authenticated and encrypted social content. Internet access and a Wi‑Fi router are not required for the core nearby experience.
Posts & Moments.
Share text and photos with the people physically around you. Recent nearby content can reappear when you encounter someone again later.
Blip, then chat.
Private chat begins after a Blip is accepted. Messages are recipient-bound and travel over authenticated local peer links while participants remain within the nearby experience.
Met before, locally.
ShortbliP can recognize a previous encounter when two devices meet again without maintaining a central ShortbliP social graph or location history.
Privacy is structural.
The goal is not to collect everything and hide it behind a policy. The goal is to avoid creating the central dataset in the first place.
Your social data lives on participating devices.
Profiles, posts, media, chat history, blocks and synchronization state are stored locally. ShortbliP uses rotating Bluetooth encounter identifiers, authenticated peer sessions, signed social objects and encrypted local storage. There are no third-party analytics, advertising SDKs or tracking domains in the app.
No cloud social databaseNo ad SDKNo tracking IDDevice-owned keys
Full Privacy Policy →Important: “No Internet required” describes ShortbliP’s core nearby social functionality. Downloading the app, visiting this website, sending a support/safety email and some operating-system services naturally use Internet infrastructure.