A social network for real people

Seal Social

Social media was supposed to bring us closer. Somewhere along the way, it stopped being about people. We're building a place that puts that right: just your family and friends, every one of them real.

We'll only write when founding places open. No spam, and your email is never sold. Privacy

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  • No ads
  • No data sales
  • No trackers on this page
  • $12 a year, five accounts to give

Something broke along the way.

Open any social app today. Many of the accounts aren't people. AI-generated posts flood your timeline. The algorithm decides what you see, and it optimizes for outrage, not connection. Meanwhile, the company behind it tracks every tap, every scroll, and rents that portrait of you to whoever pays the most.

You didn't sign up for that. Nobody did. The promise was simple: stay in touch with the people you care about. That promise got buried under ads, bots, and engagement tricks.

It isn't broken by accident.

Free apps earn their money from advertisers. The longer you scroll, the more they earn, so the feed is built to hold your attention, not to show you your friends. Fake accounts make the numbers look bigger, so nobody is in a hurry to clear them out.

Now they'll sell you a checkmark for $8 to $15 a month. A checkmark you can buy only proves you paid. It doesn't give you back a feed of your friends, and the bots stay in.

A company can sell you a checkmark. It can't sell you trust. That has to be earned, one promise kept at a time.

Our promises, in writing.

Each one comes with a way to check it yourself. If we ever break one, you'll be able to tell.

  1. 01

    Every account is one real person.

    Everyone checks a government ID once, and one person gets one account. Nobody can pretend to be your son on a new account, and someone you block stays blocked.

    How to check: The seal next to every name. It can't be bought separately: it comes only from the ID check.

  2. 02

    Your feed is your friends, in order.

    Posts from family and friends, in the order they shared them. No suggestions and no rage-bait. When you're caught up, it tells you.

    How to check: The feed ends. You'll see “You're all caught up.”

  3. 03

    No ads, and your data is never for sale.

    Your membership is our only income. There's nobody else to answer to.

    How to check: No trackers or analytics on this page, or anywhere on Seal Social. Your browser's privacy tools will show you.

  4. 04

    We check your ID once, then let it go.

    A specialist provider runs the check. We never receive the photos, and we ask the provider to delete them as soon as it's done.

    How to check: The full list of what we keep is below. It's short.

  5. 05

    You can leave with everything.

    Download everything you've posted and delete your account whenever you want.

    How to check: Both buttons are in your settings from day one.

What we keep about you. All of it.

We keep

  • Your real name
  • Your country
  • Your birth year
  • One-way fingerprints of your ID number and of your name and birth date, which can't be turned back into either

We never keep

  • Photos of your ID
  • Your selfie and video
  • Your document number

The details are in our privacy notice, written in plain words.

$12 a year. Five more to give away.

Your account, tax included. Every year it comes with five gifts: whole accounts for the people you'd bring along, each one theirs, not shared. While other services charge you for sharing a password, we'd rather you brought people. And people ask how $12 is possible when others charge more than that every month for one checkmark. Here's the honest answer:

  • There's no ad business to feed. No sales teams, no tracking systems, no shareholders waiting on engagement numbers.
  • We build only what people need. Your page, your feed, your friends, your messages. No endless video, no AI feed.
  • A small team in Nepal. Our costs are lower than Silicon Valley's, so your price can be too.
  • Once a year, one payment for you and your gifts. Fewer card fees, more of your money doing real work.

Where your $12 goes, for you and five gifts

Sales tax or VAT, where you live
up to $2.08
Payment processing, one payment for all six
$0.88
ID checks for you and five gifts, first year
$1.80
Photos, 2 GB each, if all six fill theirs
up to $4.74
Servers and email
$0.12
Building and running Seal Social
the rest
From ads or selling your data
$0.00

Our estimate at 10,000 paying accounts, checked 29 October 2026, counting all five gifts given and every limit used to the full. We'll publish real numbers once we're running.

Founding places

The first 100 places go to invited testers, free. The next 500 members keep $12 a year for as long as they stay, even if the price goes up.

What exists today.

Only a few invited testers are inside, trying it in-house. Nobody from outside joins until the ID check works, because without it the seal would mean nothing. Here's where it stands. We film every step and post it, including the parts that don't work.

  1. [✓]This page and the founding list
  2. [✓]Sign in with a passkey, no passwords
  3. [✓]Your page, in four styles
  4. [✓]Posts, photos and articles, to the world or just your friends
  5. [✓]Leave whenever you want, with everything
  6. [→]Prove you're real, then we forget your ID
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Who's building this.

Anish Wagle, smiling, in front of forested hills in Nepal

I missed what social media used to be. A place to share photos with family, catch up with old friends, and talk to the people who actually matter, without wondering if any of them are bots.

I'm a computer engineer. After six years in the corporate world I moved back to my hometown in Nepal. I don't know yet whether one small team can build the fix, so I'm finding out in public on my YouTube channel, Prayogsala. Seal Social is made by Wagle Universal Solutions, the company I founded.

Anish

Anish Wagle, founder

Fair questions.

Do I have to show my real name?

Yes. Your verified name shows on your profile, next to a username you pick. That's how everyone knows who they're talking to. If you need to stay anonymous, Seal Social isn't the right place, and we'd rather say so now.

Who can I give my five accounts to?

Anyone you choose: a partner, a parent in another country, a friend. Each gift is a whole account of their own. They verify their own ID and get their own page and space, and you never see their posts or anything else in it. Gifts renew with your year, and each year you choose who gets them.

Who checks my ID?

A specialist identity verification provider runs the check. We never receive the photos of your document or your face, and we ask the provider to delete them as soon as the check is done.

What if the price has to change?

Founding prices are locked for as long as you stay. The numbers on this page are estimates, and we'll publish the real ones once we're running.

When does it open?

We don't know yet, and we won't guess a date. We're building it one feature at a time, on camera. Join the founding list and we'll email you when places open.

We're building this carefully.

We'll open in small batches, so we get the foundation right. If this is the internet you miss, put your name down.