The only way into your circle is to tap phones in real life. Your network is exactly who you've met — and the people they've met. No contact-list scraping, no friend suggestions, no strangers sliding in.
How it works
No sign-up forms, no contact import. You meet someone, you tap phones, you can chat — and so can the friends they've already tapped. It's how introductions used to work, just digital.
Hold your phones together. NFC does the handshake in under a second — no codes, no QR scans, no "what's your number."
Their face appears in your Tapped tab. You can message them, send photos, share GIFs — same as any chat app.
Anyone they've tapped becomes a friend-of-a-friend you can message too — with attribution showing who introduced you.
Your social graph extends exactly two hops — people you've tapped, and the people they've tapped. No further. No randos. No bots. Real life only.
Why TapYap
Family group chats. Small clubs and crews. Sports teams. The school carpool. Workplace lunch group. Tight, local circles where everyone has met in person — that's the whole point.
Your identity is generated on first launch and lives only on your phone. Never tied to a SIM, an email, or a Big Tech account.
You won't get pinged about your dentist, your high school crush, or anyone you "may know." If you didn't tap them, they're not there.
When Astrid taps Bo, both of your circles see each other — with a clear "via Astrid" label so you know who vouched for them.
Made a tap you regret? Forget Person wipes the connection from your phone. No mutual block lists, no public unfollow.
The real-life-meeting gate means strangers can't reach anyone in your circle. The only way in is a phone someone you trust actually held.
Photos, voice notes, GIFs, group chats, replies, reactions, message edits, disappearing messages. All the basics, none of the friction.
Bonus
When the cell signal disappears — festival crowd, basement venue, plane mode, school WiFi blocked — TapYap quietly switches to a local Bluetooth mesh.
Messages hop phone to phone through nearby friends until they reach their destination. No internet required. The app doesn't tell you to switch modes, and it doesn't make a thing of it — chat just keeps working.
Free to download. Works on iPhone and Android. The smallest social network you'll ever join.