Retro - Social Photo Journal Reviews

I am breaking my addiction to Instagram and Facebook, and this is so much better than those platforms because it lets me click on pictures quickly and not feel like they need to be edited or filtered. It feels like a lot less pressure, but I still get to share pictures of my life!

Congrats to the this app team. This is Retro we’ve been waiting for. It took me <10 mins to upload pictures for this whole year and I enjoyed the process. Sending all the positive vibes I can that this takes off. I’ll be telling all my friends.

Beautifully made. Also kinda of like the best from Instagram and BeReal.
Quick viewing - strories ui for albums.
Very private - only your friends can access.
Fun, encourages connection on a private level - you need to share a week to see a friends week.

Loving this app. Transports me back to the golden days of social media when it was about staying connected with close friends. I’m absolutely about it

this app is really fun to use and I love that I can choose my own personal icon for Retro . It motivates me to document my life more so I can fill in all the weeks, it’s like a game!

Love using Retro, and love seeing what my friends are doing! It feels casual and fun, the way you want it to.

I asked their social media person a simple question all week and was ignored while that person continuously answered others and engaged in posts not related to Retro . Moreover, Retro starts the week with Monday and not Sunday! That’s a huge error! The first day of the week is Sunday, not Monday. Please change this.

A welcome break from other social media. A peaceful, relaxing, simple way to see what’s going on in my real friends’ real lives. Love it.

None of the negative stuff that you find on other apps. It’s really easy to use

Great concept and great app. Such a fun and relaxing break from all the other social apps.

Good idea in theory, but wasn’t what I expected. This is basically instagram stories…

Cool idea but the UI is kinda boring and I probably won’t end up using it because I may as well stick with my other 5 social medias I already have

Enjoying Retro’s simple interface and inviting premise. I really hope this catches on!

Retro has so much potential. it’s the best combination of ig stories and bereal, and is what social media should be - sharing snippets of your life with your close friends.

now I just gotta get my friends to download it 😅

Retro is a MUST download. It takes the best of both BeReal and Instagram with the small-social feel, without the stress of sudden photo-taking.
100% support this, please download and convince all your friends to.

There’s something special about just sharing with friends and/or family the images of your day. It’s an intimate social platform, and I like that.

Tan bueno. La app perfecto para amigos cercanos. Por FAVOR… JAMÁS agregue ads.

👍👍

This is an awesome app that has great design and well balanced feature set for engaging with friends and family in a very personal way. I’m loving the interactions and fun my group of close people have been able to enjoy here.

Great product just wish more people were on it. Wonder if they could tie in some better writing features for description rich photos

I have two other friends on Retro and the push notifications are so good I don't text them anymore - we just have discussions in the comments of posts. Retro is perfect, and I don't want a single thing to change.

This is my favorite photo sharing app, full stop. Posting is effortless and fun. The UX is thoughtful and intuitive. There aren’t any ads so I have no idea how it’s going to stay afloat but I sure hope it does!

Do yourself a favor, download Retro and tell your friends and family about it (maybe even delete instagram if you feel like it)

Friends and family with none of the clutter! So great!

this app is a throwback to the days of the original social networks. The promise of sharing freely with your friends and family and nothing else. The desire to share with close friends has not changed but the platforms have moved on. this app brings back those delightful moments. Loving it so far. Make sure you invite your friends in order for Retro to shine.

This is what I wish Instagram was; Simple and unobstructed by posts from thousands of random people and ads. I hope Retro gains traction so the people I actually care to share with will consider using it. I’ve already tried inviting a few so we’ll see how that goes.

I got this app because a friend recommended it to me, and I can confidently say it’s become my favorite social media app! There’s so much less pressure and creative freedom unlike instagram, Snapchat, and BeReal.

Love that I’m able to share in a space that I’m comfortable in, but hard to find people that I want to share with. Kind of feels like an enhanced gallery since I have weak ties on it right now.

I have some friends that I would be happy to have them see my posts but their posts often contain images of people that I don’t want to see in my close circle social media. It would be great if I could hide their posts from my feed so we can still be friends without causing me psychological harm.

Beautifully made. Also kinda of like the best from Instagram and BeReal.
Quick viewing - strories ui for albums.
Very private - only your friends can access.
Fun, encourages connection on a private level - you need to share a week to see a friends week.

It’s a nice way to share photos of my day to day with my long distance friends without the pressure to perform like other social media sites. AND I’m not getting sucked into watching thirty second videos/ads for three hours.

This is great!! the best part it’s only your friends, although now I have take more pictures lol 😂

This looked like a great app, but as a creator I read the terms and make sure my art is not going to be taken advantage of and it really feels like that is the case with Retro. When you post in Retro you’re giving them a license to distribute and sell your images if they so like. Do you think we’ll get a cut? Probably not. I’m planning to delete Retro .

I’ve been looking for an app to capture and share personal photos for life’s big and small moments. Since many photos include photos of my kids, privacy is super important to me as is having control over use and visibility of the photos. And this app has delivered!

I love how easy it is to post and review photos, and the weekly and yearly recaps are a wonderful delight. I also love how it incentivizes posting by locking the week until you post, which prevents followers from lurking without sharing. The whole design and experience makes it feel more intimate and real unlike other social media that ends up feeling performative and full of ads.

If you’re looking for a more personal, honest social photo sharing app, this is the one for you!

I was looking for an app to connect with my friends who live far away (because we aren’t great with texting..) I don’t know why it was so hard to find an app to meet our needs?? We’ve tried to stay connected with Instagram, Snapchat, Locket, and other messaging apps but this is the one that stuck! 💓 I love that you can upload from your album, upload videos, the Recap feature, that each week is separated, and the UI is cleann! There are no captions, so we just type a comment and it works the same. Honestly, it’s basically a filtered version of my camera roll and I love it.
(Would love if there was a cute widget for Retro 🙈)

great casual photo journaling app with a laidback friends feature. doesn't feel like overly curated instagram and is a great way to document your life weekly using photos. please keep ads off. the only big piece of feedback i have is to please move the add friends section down on the friends tab.. i've gotten 9 friends to join Retro so far (some of which have also got some of their friends to join as well) and i don't like how it's split my friends into 2 scrollable pages instead of just fitting more friends onto on page and pushing the invite/add section a bit lower. i get there's a big focus on inviting since this is a new app but the invite page already has this so it's redundant to keep it so high on the friends page. also i'd love a feature to be able to reorganize my friends as right now they are in order of when i added them and can't be moved around which is frustrating especially with only being able to see 6 friends per page. a simple hold/drag/drop just like reorganizing apps on homescreen would be intuitive and easy. thanks for creating a great app so far!

When I saw an ad for this pop up, I really assumed it was going to be another flash in the pan photo sharing app with a poor user interface.

Instead, I was met with a surprisingly easy to use and incredibly fun social platform. The potential is here to rival that of Instagram, and most likely surpass it. this app will definitely become super popular if it hasn’t started to uptick already.

good ux, understand the value prop! please add captions to photos :) and potentially some better discovery? part of what makes instagram / twitter interesting is the ability to connect with new people -- I'd like to see this app build something that makes it feel default more "alive" in! also, out of curiosity... how are you planning to monetize?