Burn After Reading
Drop secret messages at real-world locations. Walk to discover them. Once read, they vanish forever.
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Drop secret messages at real-world locations. Walk to discover them. Once read, they vanish forever.
How It Works
Write a message and drop it at your current location. It stays pinned to that exact spot in the real world.
Nearby drops appear on your map. You can see them, but you can't read them until you walk there.
Get within 20 meters to unlock a message. The closer you get, the faster the marker pulses.
Read the message. It's destroyed permanently. No screenshots warning, no second chances. Gone.
Features
Leave your mark on the real world. Start conversations with strangers. Build something fleeting and real.
Someone reads your drop and replies. A conversation begins, anchored to that spot. Walk back to continue it.
Send a message meant for one person. They'll get a notification and have to walk to where you left it.
Add friends by standing together in person. No usernames, no phone numbers. You give them a nickname only you can see.
Get notified when someone burns your message, replies to your drop, or when a friend leaves something nearby.
Markers pulse faster as you approach. Green means you're close enough to unlock. It feels like a treasure hunt.
Friend drops give you a choice. Save a message to remember it, or burn it like everything else.
Privacy
No accounts. No emails. No phone numbers. No tracking. Your identity is a random device ID synced through iCloud. That's it.
Free on iOS. No account needed.