every trip deserves a proper ending

The trip
you'll forget
you won't.

Create a book for a trip, a night out, a summer — anything. Everyone adds memories. It seals when it's over. You open it together, a week later, when it already feels like the past.

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hundreds of groups already archiving their year
the problem

Every app you use was
designed to make
you forget.

Stories

Gone in 24 hours. Designed to disappear — so you post more, not so you remember more.

The algorithm

It decides what you see. Your friend's best memory from March never made the feed.

The group chat

14,000 messages. Somewhere in there is the photo from that night. Nobody's going back to find it.

None of them were built to archive your year. Fold was.

what fold is

One book.
One year.
One group.

No public profile. No explore page. No strangers. Just the people who were actually there.

01

Start a book at the top of the year.

Name it, invite your group with a code. Everyone gets in. You start posting — photos, captions, anything worth keeping.

02

Add memories as they happen.

Your whole group contributes all year. No algorithm. No likes. No pressure to perform. Just the year, in order.

03

December 31st, it seals. Forever.

The book locks at midnight. Open it when you're ready — in January, or five years from now. It'll be exactly as you left it.

2024sealed
2025sealed
2026● live
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Your shelf grows. One year at a time.

the rules

The constraints
are the point.

Every limitation is deliberate. Remove any one of them and Fold becomes every other app.

01

No deletion.

Once you post, it stays. You have 24 hours to caption it. After that, it's part of the record — exactly as it happened.

02

No algorithm.

January comes before December. Nothing gets ranked, boosted, or buried. No for-you page. No explore tab. Just your year, in order.

03

It seals.

Midnight, December 31st. The book locks. Open it in January. Open it five years from now. It'll be exactly as you left it.

the ritual

The unlock
ceremony.

The book seals. When you open it — a week later, a month later, two years later — a private countdown runs. Then your year plays back, month by month, in chronological order. No edits. No curation. No algorithm. Just what actually happened.

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your year is ready.

experience the ceremony →

I forgot most of last year. This year I actually have something to show for it.

Maya, 20the bloc
0days left in 2026

Don't let this year
be another one
you forget.

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free · no ads · no algorithm · seals dec 31

pricing

No ads. No tracking.
Just the book.

Free

$0/year
  • 1 active book per year
  • Up to 6 members
  • 200 photos total
  • Permanent archive access
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$24/year
  • Unlimited books
  • Up to 12 members
  • Unlimited photos
  • Priority support
  • Early access to new features
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Groups

$49/year
  • Everything in Fold+
  • Up to 20 members
  • Multiple books per year
  • Group admin controls
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