About.

Most of what happens around you never gets filmed, and almost none of what does gets watched while it still matters. A queue that is somehow forty people deep. A street that has filled up out of nowhere. An open mic where someone turns out to be extraordinary. By the time any of it reaches a feed, it is over.

Snipes is built around the opposite constraint: it is only worth opening if something is live. Streams are short, unpolished, and shot from the middle of whatever is going on. You tap in, you see it, and then it is gone.

Filtered as it streams

Every active stream is sampled in real time by automated content-safety models. Anything flagged goes straight to a human reviewer, who can end the stream.

Reported in one tap

Any stream or comment can be reported from inside the app. Reports involving privacy violations or minors are routed first, and every report is acted on within 24 hours.

Bans that stick

Serious violations end in a device-level ban designed to survive reinstallation — not just the loss of a handle that took a second to generate.

Age-gated

You must be 18 or older to broadcast and 13 or older to watch. The app is rated 16+.

Location is off by default. Turn it on and the default resolution is neighbourhood-level — coordinates are hashed and jittered on the server before anyone else sees them. Precise location is opt-in, and only per stream.

You can also draw private zones: geofenced areas, such as where you live, in which streaming pauses automatically.

Snipes is an iPhone app, currently in beta through TestFlight. Questions go to jay@snipes.world.