For the photos you never post.
No likes. No filters. No pressure.
Your camera roll is full of stories you've never told — weird, funny, mundane, beautiful moments that don't belong on any other platform. PhotoDare finally gives them somewhere to go.
Trade pics with friends and share real stories
Turn thousands of random photos you've never shared into conversations with friends.
How many stories are waiting in your library?
Try it and find out!
Which is more interesting?
Drag the slider.
There's no wrong answer. But ask yourself which one you'd actually want to chat about. If it's the smiley eggs, you might like PhotoDare. Grab a friend, it's more fun that way.
Left side photo by Davey Gravy on Unsplash • Right side: Smiley eggs by user nick
Left side photo by Davey Gravy on Unsplash • Right side: Smiley eggs by user nick
How to play
1. Choose your vibe
Play with a friend, or go solo (because yolo).
2. Pick a photo
We shuffle your camera roll so you stumble across moments you forgot about.
Or just pick one yourself — you're in control either way.
3. You send your photo, then they send theirs
Neither of you sees the other's photo until you've both sent.
4. The photos are just the start
The stories are the good stuff.
Turns out your life is fascinating — and your camera roll is full of stories waiting to be told.
5. Private by default — share if you want to
Every Dare starts locked, so only the people who made it can see it.
In 2-Player mode, both of you have to unlock it before it goes anywhere.
Once you're both comfortable, share by link or post it to Discover.
You'll rediscover thousands of forgotten life moments.
"The new full screen PhotoDare image shuffle is so satisfying! Awesome!" — Brandon F from Canada
Yes-timonials
"It doesn't turn me off in the way all other social media does."
"It's a perfect ice breaker for people who aren't good at dating…"
"You always hear how social media's really bad for your mental health… this brings the fun aspect of sharing your photos without that pressure of it needing to look a certain way and get likes."
"I just wanna get my friends in this now!"
"In Insta, all these pictures would be more colour vibrant and look filtered, but here it looks way more personal — it feels way more personal."
"This is something I could actually see myself doing with my friends — this is the highest compliment I could pay."
"It's like having a cool interesting chat with your friends and encourages me to be thoughtful."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great way to share pics and start conversations. Dare a friend to share a pic without looking at it first and see what turns up! Or get to know someone by exchanging pics and sparking unexpected chats. Has a clever, fun interface; adds some more engaging 'social' to your 'media'
"It's more about showing an authentic part of someone — it says so much about what the photo is when you hear their storytelling. It tells you what they think is interesting."
"It's a fun way to get to know your friends on a more personal level since you're sharing pics you normally wouldn't."
"I like the authenticity and kinda like the intimacy of PhotoDare because a lot of these photos, I wouldn't put on my Instagram — that's just not the platform for it."
"I think about what my friend will see when I'm posting, what will make him laugh, and when there's those synergies, it's such a cool feeling."
"I would use this for flirting!" 😏
"I LOVE YOUR APP" ❤️
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great fun way to revisit old photos with friends or just by yourself
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's a fun way to look back on old photos and goof around with friends!
PhotoDare is on a mission to make photo sharing more sincere — because real life is more interesting.
Your camera roll is full of stories you've never told — not because they aren't interesting, but because no platform ever made it feel safe, fun, or worth it. Until now.
Social media turned sharing into performing
Everyone's feed looks amazing — because people tend to only post what makes them look good. But when everyone else's life seems better than yours it leads to comparison, FOMO, and feeling like you're not enough.
Meanwhile, your phone is full of thousands of photos you never share. Weird ones. Funny ones. Mundane ones. You might not think they're interesting — but they tell people more about the real you than any polished post ever could.
Those are the moments that matter — and they're going to waste.
The weird, random, unpolished stuff is the point.
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Everyday life is more interesting
The pear that looked like a butt. Street art from a trip you forgot about. A mysterious spoon. You had a reason to take the photo, even if you don't remember why. Be brave enough to share it, and curious enough to ask about someone else's. That's where the real conversations start.
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Friends first, always
No algorithm decides who sees your photos. PhotoDare is built for real conversations between real people. You actually get to know someone instead of broadcasting to an audience you'll never meet.
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Privacy is the default, not a setting
Every Dare starts private. In 2-player mode, both people have to agree before anything becomes visible to anyone else. You're never surprised by what's public, because nothing is public unless you choose it.
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The best pics are the ones you'd never think to share
The shuffle, the hidden tiles, the blind exchange. They hack the instinct to curate and surface photos you forgot you had. It's hard to overthink your photo choice when you're flipping a tile and laughing at what shows up.
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Built with well-being in mind
On other platforms, you're competing with posed shots and filtered perfection. On PhotoDare, the content itself is different. Real moments. Real stories. Actual conversations. You just talk about life — and it turns out that's a way more interesting way to connect.
For the photos you never post. For the stories you've never told. For the real life that's more interesting.
Get to know people for realsies.
New app, who dis?
We’re a group of Canadian 🇨🇦 nerds shaking up photo sharing with an addictive new platform built on real life stories.
Join us on our mission to make every day more authentic!
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Best question ever! Send them this page to download the app.
When they’re signed up, go to the Play screen and “Dare a Friend” – you can start typing their name or username to find them.
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You make posts on PhotoDare by playing a simple mini-game, either by yourself (Solo) or with a friend (2-Player).
From the Play screen pick a game mode. Once you grant permission to access your photos, it will shuffle them behind game tiles, and you can choose which to play with.
In 2-Player Dares, you have 3 ways to play:
1. Send a photo without looking: it sends the game tile (including your photo) to your friend without you knowing which photo is behind it. This is the most exciting way to play but does come with an extra safety alert to help prevent you sending something you might not want shared. Once you hit send, you won’t be able to see which photo you sent until your friend completes the Dare, and then both your photos are revealed.
This moment of reveal might be your first time seeing the photo in the game. If you are concerned about what you might have sent, you can delete the Dare from your Sent feed using the More button, and tapping Delete. If you are the sender, you can delete it before or after the other person has responded, but if you are the receiver, both photos will already be revealed after you hit send.2. Peek and remix: once you’ve picked a game tile, you can tap it to reveal the hidden picture before you send. At this point you can Remix it to re-shuffle the picture as many times as you’d like.
Once sent, the photo is re-hidden behind a tile until the Dare is completed by the receiver, at which point both people can see both photos.
3. Chicken out: not feeling confident in your photos? No problem. Chickening out replaces your photo with a picture of a chicken, and your photo is never sent. This is a good move if you still want to see your friends’ picture but you’re not ready to share a photo yet.
Once sent, the chicken is re-hidden behind a tile until the Dare is completed by the receiver, at which point both people can see whatever was sent by each player.
When you’ve completed the Dare you can see the photos and chat about them.
Safety mechanisms when co-creating Dares.To protect the privacy of both players, there are several safety mechanisms:
Safety check if you send without looking: when you choose this method, you will be prompted to confirm that you really want to send it.
Safety check if you peeked and send: if you look at the photo first, you will also get a confirmation request. There is also a confirmation if you chicken out.
Dares are Private by default, and both players must unlock before they can be shared.
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Yes! You can delete existing Dares, and also Dares you’ve sent and are still waiting for your friend to reply.
From any Dare, tap the “More Options” button that looks like 3 dots to bring up the Delete button. If one player in a 2-Player Dare deletes it, it will be deleted for both players as a safety precaution.
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PhotoDare aims to solve a problem: the images on social media can make us feel pressured to look cool, good looking, rich, and successful – everyone else’s life seems to look better than our own. So people tend to only post things that make them look good, and the problem intensifies.
PhotoDare celebrates *all* the life moments we find photo-worthy, not just the cool-looking ones, so to help everyone counteract that impulse to curate what they share, we designed the shuffle game.
The randomness in this mode helps people get a peek into each others’ lives they wouldn’t see otherwise. It’s also a great way to rediscover all the life moments we captured but forgot to share anywhere.
But just a shuffle feature isn’t enough to solve the bigger problem; sharing things that seem ‘not cool enough for social’ takes courage, and a belief in other people’s curiosity.
1. Playing PhotoDare helps you rediscover life moments – be brave and fight the urge to only share the ones that seem ‘cool’! You had a reason to take the photo, and you never know what someone will find interesting or relate to.
2. Be curious about other people’s photos and stories, even if you don’t get why they were shared. There’s always a reason for why people take photos, and finding out what it is is fun and gives you a more authentic sense of that person.about other people’s photos and stories, even if you don’t get why they were shared. There’s always a reason for why people take photos, and finding out what it is is fun and gives you a more authentic sense of that person.
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PhotoDare only saves photos you ask it to save or send. It does not access your other photos other than to show them to you in the game mode. PhotoDare is made by a small team in Canada who care deeply about privacy, and we do not sell your information or process your photos in any way beyond what is needed to create the gameplay features. Learn more in our Privacy Policy.
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Once you know they have an account, go to Play, 2-Player Mode “Dare a Friend”, and you can start typing their username, or name to find them. Tap their name to send them a Dare!
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You can see incoming Dares in 2 places. The first is in the Play Screen, under 2-Player mode you’ll see a “Reply” button if you have incoming dares. Also you can respond to dares in the “Incoming” feed of the My Dares tab.
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All Dares start out locked, or “Private”, and can only be seen by those who created them.
To share them with others, the creators need to unlock them, which makes the Dare “Public”. In 2-Player Dares, both creators must unlock a Dare to share it, which protects both players.
When a Dare is Public, it can be seen by anyone with the link and is also moved to the front page known as “Discover”.
We are busy working on more privacy features to give players more granular control over who can see their Dares.
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Please do report anything bad or suspicious!
You can email us at hello@photodare.ca.
You can report Dares from any Dare – press the “More Options” button that looks like 3 dots to bring up the Report button.
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Click any users’ name or username to be taken to their public profile.
Tap the More button (the three dots) and choose Block User.
Block any user from their profile to:• Hide your Dares and comments from each other.
• Prevent sending Dares to each other.
• IMPORTANT: If you have 2-Player Dares with this user, they will be set to Private and hidden from both of you.
This can be undone by unblocking them from Settings. If you need to delete Dares while a user is blocked, contact us at hello@photodare.ca.
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Thanks in advance for reaching out to hello@photodare.ca, we look forward to hearing from you.
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In the Settings page – which you can access via the top right avatar icon in Discover, Play, or My Dares –, scroll to the “Account” section and tap “Delete account”.
This will warn you that your content and account info will be permanently deleted.
Your content and account information will no longer be visible or usable in the app. In accordance with our Privacy Policy, we only keep any associated data for as long as is strictly necessary to comply with legal obligations.
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Currently we do not have a feature in the app to allow you to update your account info, but we can change this for you if you reach out to hello@photodare.ca. Some restrictions may apply.