What we mean by a private social network.
Every app has a privacy setting. This is not that. Looped is private the way a dinner table is private: it is small, everyone there was invited by someone, and nothing said at it is content for strangers.
What Looped is
Looped is an invite-only recommendation network. Twice a week, one question goes to every member at the same moment. The one app you open when you are bored. The thing you cook when you cannot be bothered. You answer, and when the next question lands, you see what the people you are connected to said.
Your answers are visible to your connections and nobody else. There is no public feed and no way to go viral, because there is nowhere for a post to travel to. What builds up instead is a library: everything your people have vouched for, kept, and there to try when you need it.
If you came here looking for a BeReal alternative
BeReal proved something worth keeping: when everybody posts at the same moment, nobody performs. Looped keeps that and drops the camera. The shared moment is a question about taste instead of a selfie, it comes twice a week instead of daily, and what it leaves behind is a list of things your friends swear by rather than a grid of photos.
If the daily picture stopped being fun but the honesty was the point, this is the same honesty aimed at something you can use.
What invite-only means here
Every member gets ten invites, total, and most people spend them slowly, on the few whose taste they would vouch for. That is the entire growth strategy. It keeps the network small enough that an answer is written for people who know you, which is the thing that makes it worth reading.
What there isn't
There are no ads and no affiliate links, so nobody makes a cent when you take a recommendation. There are no follower counts, so nobody is winning. And there is no algorithm, so the quiet friend with great taste gets read exactly as often as the loud one.
No invite? The waitlist is one field. When a spot opens, we write to you once.
What people ask on the way in
- What makes a social network private?
- Structure, not a settings toggle. Looped is private because of how it is built: you connect only with people you both chose, your answers are visible to those people alone, and there is no public surface at all. A lock icon on a broadcast platform protects a post. A small network protects the whole conversation.
- How do you join an invite-only social network like Looped?
- Two doors. An invite code from a current member gets you straight in. Every member holds ten and chooses who gets them. Without a code, join the waitlist: leave your email and we write once when a spot opens, with a code and nothing else. No account setup ahead of time.
- Is there a social network without ads or an algorithm?
- Looped is one, and the two absences are connected. Ads need an algorithm to hold your attention, and an algorithm needs strangers to fill the feed. Take the ads away and the rest can go too: your reveal is just the people you chose and what they said, with nobody deciding for you what is worth reading.