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Send one photo.
Then take it back.

Set how long it lives. Set how many times they can open it. Kill it after you’ve sent it — even after it’s been delivered. It never lands in their camera roll.

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The problem

Every photo you send is a permanent gift.

The second it arrives it’s theirs. It goes to their storage, their gallery and their cloud backup — and every one of those is their setting, not yours.

You send it
One tap. That is the last decision you get to make about it.
It lands in their camera roll
Whether it gets saved there is their setting, never yours.
It syncs to their cloud backup
Where end-to-end encryption is opt-in, if it is offered at all.
It copies to every device they own
Laptop, tablet, the old phone in a drawer.
And it stays there
No expiry. No view limit. No way to take it back.

Versus what you already have

You have view-once. Here’s what it can’t do.

The controls you want exist as one fixed preset, buried in an app built for something else.

How Peek’s per-photo controls compare with the messengers most people already use. Scrolls sideways.
Capability	Peek	WhatsApp	Instagram	Snapchat	Signal
Custom duration	Yes	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited
View count	Yes	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited
Revoke after sending	Yes	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited
No camera roll	Yes	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited
Screenshot alert	Yes	No	Limited	Yes	No
Recipient watermark	Yes	No	No	No	No
No account for them	Yes	No	No	No	No
Server can't read it	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes

Swipe the table sideways to see every app →

How Peek’s per-photo controls compare with the messengers most people already use.
Capability	Peek	WhatsApp	Instagram	Snapchat	Signal
Pick how long it lives	YesAny duration, up to 7 days	LimitedView once, or a per-chat timer	LimitedView once, or vanish mode	LimitedFixed options	LimitedView once, or a per-chat timer
Choose how many times they can open it	YesAny number, up to 100	LimitedNot a number you set	LimitedNot a number you set	LimitedNot a number you set	LimitedNot a number you set
Kill it after you've sent it	YesEven once delivered	LimitedRemoves it from the chat	LimitedRemoves it from the chat	LimitedRemoves it from the chat	LimitedRemoves it from the chat
Stays out of their camera roll	YesNever written to storage	LimitedOnly in view-once mode	LimitedOnly in view-once mode	LimitedOnly in view-once mode	LimitedOnly in view-once mode
Tells you if they screenshot	Yes	NoBlocks screenshots instead	LimitedDisappearing media only	Yes	No
Watermark tied to the recipient	Yes	No	No	No	No
They never make an account	YesInstall and open	No	No	No	No
The server can't read the file	Yes	YesEnd-to-end encrypted	NoE2EE removed May 2026	No	YesEnd-to-end encrypted

Full control
Limited
None

Checked against each company’s own documentation in August 2026. “Limited” means the feature exists in some form, but not as a per-photo control you set — and anything the recipient already saved stays saved. These products change often. If something here is out of date, tell us and we’ll correct it.

Per photo, not per app

You write the terms.

Three chips, one tap each. Set a default once and sending is a single tap after that.

How long

How many times

Watermark

They can open it three times in the next 24 hours. After that it stops opening, for good.

Every view carries a faint watermark tied to their device. You can kill it before then, from your phone.

How it works

We enforce a policy on a file we can’t read.

Client-side-only expiry is an honour system. Ours isn’t — the server stops serving the file when your policy says so, without ever learning what it is.

01
Encrypted before it leaves
Your phone encrypts the photo with AES-256-GCM. What travels is ciphertext.
02
We hold a file we can't open
The blob sits on our servers under your policy — expiry, view count, revoked or not. We enforce all of it without ever seeing the picture.
03
The key rides in the link
It lives in the URL fragment, which browsers and link handlers never send to a server. It goes from your phone to theirs, past us.

No asterisks

What we can and can’t see.

Most privacy pages stop at the flattering half. Here’s all three parts, including the one that isn’t.

What we can’t see

The photo. It’s encrypted on your device before it’s uploaded, and the key travels in the link — never to our servers. We hold an encrypted file we have no way to open.

What we can see

That you sent something, when it was opened, and how big the file was. We keep as little of it as we can and delete it on expiry.

What nobody can prevent

Someone photographing their screen with a second phone. No app stops that, and any app that says otherwise is lying to you. What we do is make it obvious and traceable — screenshot alerts, and a watermark tied to the recipient.

The app isn’t out yet.
Be first through the door.

One email when it ships. Nothing else, and never to anyone else. What we do with it.

Send one photo.Then take it back.