Welcome to @Snapie,
The official home of "Hive Snaps" app — where you’ll find everything you need to know about the newly launched app, and get ongoing updates about this exciting project.
But first — what is Snaps?
Snaps is a fairy recent new feature introduced by PeakD to allow users to post short-form content (up to 280 characters) — much like tweets, status updates, or microblogs — directly onto the Hive blockchain.
👍 They’re perfect for:
- Quick thoughts and updates
- Short tips and recommendations
- Sharing a photo or a single idea
- Linking to longer posts or external content
🔑 Key Features:
- No titles required
- No beneficiaries or advanced options on payout
- Supports images, tags, and markdown
- Shows in a special "Snaps" feed on PeakD
- Great for casual engagement and discovery
In other words, a Snap is a post 'on-the-go' — great for letting your followers know what you're up to, it can help build your audience, and of course, it pays too.
Enter: Hive Snaps!
Up until now, Snaps was only accessible through the PeakD frontend on your browser (via desktop or a phone). Now, with Hive Snaps app you can post snaps directly on your iPhone or Android - much like with other social media apps such as X and Bluesky.
Developed by @meno and @joseamenac, Hive Snaps is designed to boost engagement on Snaps through an exclusive (Snap-centric) mobile app, that offers a familiar and friendly social media UI, and an intuitive UX - that makes snapping more fun.
🧚♂️ Hive Snaps Features include:
- Easy sign-in with only 'username' and 'private posting key'
- An expanded array of emojis 🧟♀️🧞♂️🧚♂️🧜♂️🧝♂️
- No downvotes - for good vibes
- Precise post timestamp (date and time)
- Gif button - cause you gotta!
- Big 🔵 button - to make a new snap
- Comprehensive User Profile
- Simplified markdown for snap making - but can display most markdown effects.
- Notifications: follows, upvotes, replies, mentions
- User and content search 🔎
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hashtags Snaps
Here is an example of the current UI by one of our beta-testers, @ankapolo:
🕺💃 Where YOU come in:
We are inviting anyone who is interested, to become Hive Snaps' first beta-testers and early adaptors to test-drive the app and give us feedback, report bugs, and make feature suggestions.
Share your thoughts about:
🔹 UI aesthetics
🔹 Any bugs encountered
🔹 UX logic and flow
🔹 How this app has affected your experience on Hive.
🔹 Features that can improve the app
To download the app follow the instructions:
🔽 For iOS, you must join Discord
🔽 For Android : Android
You can leave us feedback in the comments bellow, or on our Hive Snaps Discord channel.