At the centre of this shift is BeReal, a photo-sharing app designed to show a snapshot of what a user is doing at a certain point during the day, no matter how mundane.

BeReal doesn't allow you to curate. There are no filters. It simply gives users a random two-minute window each day to post one photo. When you post, the app uses both your front and rear-facing ...

And the concept is going down a storm with Gen Z, with BeReal this week becoming the No.1 non-gaming app in the US Apple App Store. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

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It's not just BeReal, either. Other buzzy apps, like photo-sharing app Lapse or anonymous Q&A platform NGL, have also seen downloads and active users "fall materially over the past year as ...

TikTok is killing off an in-app feature that was a close copy of the social media platform BeReal. The feature, called TikTok Now, was just launched in September and gave users daily prompts to ...