We made PUNCH because the social internet broke.
Five apps, five algorithms, five sets of rules nobody can read. Your reach is decided by people you'll never meet, based on signals you're not allowed to see. You post something that matters to you — about your community, your work, your country, what's happening in the world — and the post quietly dies. You don't get told why. You're not breaking any rule you can find. The number just doesn't go up. That's not a feed. That's a leash.
PUNCH is the alternative.
One place. Post photos, post video, message your friends, build your community — and when you're ready, go live straight into your own room, from your phone, no studio required. Share to other platforms when you want to. Not five apps screaming at each other on your home screen.
Your messages are yours. Encrypted DMs — encrypted in transit and at rest. Never scanned for ads. Never sold. Never fed to AI. One honest exception: if someone in a chat reports a message, a human can review it — that's how reports work, and we won't pretend otherwise.
No shadow bans. If a post is removed, you'll know. If your account is restricted, you'll know why and you can appeal. Our rules are public, written in plain language, and the only things they remove are the things that have to be removed for the platform to legally exist: content that targets children, content that doxxes or directly threatens real people, content that's illegal in the country it's posted from. That's it. We don't quietly throttle you because someone didn't like your opinion on a war.
Every post carries a receipt. Open any post you made and tap Receipt: whether it was eligible for your followers and for discovery, the factors that ranked it, its views and sends, and which version of the ranking evaluated it. Every other platform says “trust us.” We hand you the receipt.
The algorithm is yours to tune, or turn off. You can read it. You can see what signals matter. You can switch to pure chronological if you want. We will never optimize for outrage, because outrage is not what people came here for.
Creators get paid the right way. Tips: you keep 90%. Subscriptions: you keep 85%. Payouts weekly, every Friday. And you are not a tenant here — export your posts and your entire follow list any day, and leave if we ever stop deserving you. If you're just here to post and connect, you'll never see a payment screen.
We're not anti-anything. We're not “the free speech app.” We're not “the anti-Meta app.” We're a place built on the assumption that adults can decide what to share and who to listen to, that privacy is the default and not a premium feature, and that the algorithm should serve the user, not the owner.
No discrimination. Every faith, every politics, every culture, every language — the same rules, the same reach mechanics, the same right to appeal, the same dignity. Not as a slogan: as a receipt you can check. We will defend that line, in both directions, against any pressure to bend it.
This is PUNCH. Punch through the noise. Punch through the algorithm. Punch your way back to the people who matter.