An app to store,
create and share
your media.
Keep your photos, videos and writing on your own device. Create stories from them and choose what to share.
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Your source files.
Two ways to share.
A collection on your device, media shared with invited people, and a story for web readers. Each has a different audience.
On your device
Your source collection starts here. Publishing a story does not replace those files.
Keep the material you create and choose what to share from it.
With invited people
Share media with a built-in role group, such as Hive Readers. Members with access can watch and listen in the app.
This is media sharing. It does not enable shared story editing or comments.
On your website
Publish a story with writing and photos through a configured site. Visitors can read it without an account.
A public site needs domain, network and HTTPS setup, plus an available serving device. Website video and audio are not supported yet.
Media audiences and story publishing are separate. There is no members-only story mode.
Ownership you
can act on.
Your material starts on your device. Keeping a local copy and choosing an audience are two separate decisions.
- Keep a local copy.
- Your media and writing start on your own device.
- Make sharing a choice.
- Choose a built-in role group for shared media. Publish stories separately; web access requires a configured site.
- A way to move it.
- Export a plaintext JSON copy, or move your encrypted data directory. Keep your 24-word recovery phrase safe.
Coastal Lens · Sample projectPublishing is a separate action.
Other devices
are part of the story.
Share beyond your device. Give your material another place to live.
Other devices are called peers. They connect to exchange material; an approved Peer-Host can also keep a copy.
Explore how peers connectFind a connection.
Find other devices. Servers help peers find each other and get past home routers.
See your connections change.
See which devices you’re connected to and watch transfer activity change. A connected peer is not necessarily a member of your Hive.
A story reaches other devices.
Publish a signed story from your device. Other devices exchange the post so feeds can catch up. Reaching a web browser requires a configured site.
Public and restricted have different paths.
Publishing a post and restricting media are different actions. Supported restricted media is encrypted on your device. Changing an audience does not yet re-encrypt existing material; publishing to the web needs a configured site.
Give a file another place to live.
Ask a Peer-Host to keep another copy of a file beyond your device. The Peer-Host must be approved by its operator. You can check where the file is held; a request does not guarantee pickup or availability.
Set the pace on your device.
Adjust uploads and simultaneous transfers. These settings apply across your Hives on this device. Upload caps are best effort; download-rate limits are not supported yet.
Illustrated sequences explain the intended flow. Timing, peer counts, addresses and file-holder counts are samples, not performance or availability promises.
One trip. Many pieces.
One Hive to bring them together.
Trip footage, audio, photos and a finished story, brought together in one sample creator project.
More tools. The same Hive.
Sidecars are small apps, like plugins, that add tools to your Hive. Built-in tools exist; third-party installation and a marketplace remain future work.
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