A mobile app for everyday phone users

MEDIA BOARD

Save a photo or a video, drop it on a board, find it again in two taps. Your media, sorted the way you actually think about it.

  • Boards by topic
  • Share in one tap
  • No feed, no noise

The camera roll was never a filing system

A phone gallery sorts by one thing: the day the file landed on it. That works for a week. It stops working the moment you are looking for the kitchen you photographed last spring, the clip a friend sent you about a bike rack, and the three screenshots you took of the same recipe.

MEDIA BOARD puts a second layer over that pile. A board is a subject you care about — a flat you are renovating, a trip you are planning, a band you keep finding videos of — and anything that belongs to it goes on it. Photos you shot, videos you saved, things people sent you. The file stays where it is; the board is how you get back to it.

Nothing is scored, ranked or pushed at you. There is no stream that refreshes while you are trying to remember what you were looking for. You open a board, you see what you put on it, and that is the whole idea.

What the app does

Boards you name yourself

Make a board for anything — Bathroom tiles, Climbing trips, Dinner ideas. No fixed categories to squeeze your life into.

Photos and video together

Stills and clips sit on the same board. A thirty-second video of a technique belongs next to the photo of the result, not in a different app.

Sort by topic, not by date

Move items between boards, group them into sections inside a board, and reorder them so the thing you reach for most is on top.

Share a board, not your gallery

Send one board to one person. They see what is on it and nothing else from your phone.

Boards two people fill

Open a board up so someone else can add to it — useful when a trip, a move or a wedding is being planned by more than one of you.

Browse other people's collections

Public boards are there to look through when you want ideas instead of a search box and an empty screen.

Ways people set it up

Tell us which of these you are after and we will point you at the right build.

Personal boards

One phone, your own collections, nobody else looking.

  • Unlimited boards by topic
  • Photos and video on the same board
  • Sections inside a board
  • Nothing public unless you make it so
Most asked for

Shared boards

For the trip, the move or the project being planned by more than one person.

  • Invite people to a single board
  • Everyone adds and reorders
  • See what was added since you last looked
  • Close the board again when it is done

Public collections

For people who collect on a subject and want others to be able to browse it.

  • Publish a board with a link
  • Readers browse without adding
  • Keep your other boards private
  • Unpublish at any point

MEDIA BOARD is in early access — what you get and when depends on the device you use, so ask before you plan around it.

From install to a board you use daily

  1. Start one board

    Not twelve. Pick the subject you currently lose things in and name the board after it.

  2. Send media to it

    Add from your camera roll, or share into MEDIA BOARD from wherever you found the photo or clip.

  3. Tidy as you go

    Drag items into order, split the board into sections once it gets long, move strays to a board where they belong.

  4. Share the board, not the phone

    Send the board to one person, open it up so they can add, or publish it for anyone to browse.

What you end up holding

After a few weeks the useful thing is not the app — it is the boards. A board called Flat that holds every photo of every radiator, tile and door handle you have considered. A board called Bikes with the four repair videos you keep needing. A board you and someone else built for a trip, still there after the trip, worth opening again.

That is the honest promise: less time scrolling backwards through a gallery, and a place to put the next thing you find so you are not scrolling backwards tomorrow either.

Who it is not for

If you want an audience, follower counts and a feed that moves, this is the wrong app. MEDIA BOARD is quiet on purpose. It is for collecting, keeping and handing things to the handful of people who want them.

Ask about early access

Leave your name and email and tell us what you would use a board for — it decides what we build next.

  • A person on the product team reads every message, not an autoresponder.
  • We reply with where early access stands and what works on your kind of phone.
  • Your details are used for that reply and nothing else.