A social network where every reply comes from a verified person.

perso is a social network where everyone who posts or replies has passed an ID check. It is paid for by memberships and has no ads.

Each member completes a one-time identity check with our verification provider, Didit. You scan a government photo ID and take a quick selfie for liveness. perso never sees your raw ID images.

Your ID document images and selfie are never stored by perso, and never touch our own servers. Verification runs inside Didit's secure environment, and the verification session is deleted there as soon as your check completes. Didit's retention for perso's account is set to 30 days, so any session not deleted immediately is deleted within 30 days. From the check, perso keeps a small set of details, including your verified name, a confirmation that you are over 18, a reference identifier, the verification method, the date of verification, and a one-way identifier derived from your document number, which we use to prevent the same document from opening more than one account, to support account recovery, and to refuse recovery of an account that has been banned.

Anyone can read their posts in the Public Square, so their work stays discoverable. But interacting anywhere on perso, replying, commenting, liking, reposting, or following, takes membership, and every member is ID-verified, so everyone who takes part is a real, ID-checked person, not an anonymous account or a bot. That sharply reduces bots, spam, trolls, and low-intent behavior.

It means we confirm you are a real person, so others know they are interacting with a real human.

The person who runs an organization's account takes part like anyone else: they become a member and verify their own ID. To work with perso as an organization, tell us on the partnership form.

Because subscriptions keep the platform sustainable, ad-free, and less vulnerable to bots and abuse. There is an old saying about the internet: if you are not paying for the product, you are the product. On free platforms, your attention and your data are what is being sold to advertisers, and the app is designed to extract as much of both as it can. perso is paid so that this is not true here: you are the customer, not the product. The small membership fee is what lets us work for you instead of for advertisers. It funds a network where everyone who posts or replies has verified their ID, with no ads and no attention-farming. Your home feed stays in simple chronological order, because we have no business reason to distort it. The fee also supports the identity check that every member passes before taking part. In short: a small monthly fee buys you a place where the incentives point at you, not at your data.

perso costs €4.99/month on Android and €5.99/month on Apple.

We believe in transparent pricing. Apple charges higher platform fees, so the price on Apple is slightly higher. We prefer to explain that clearly rather than hide it somewhere else. App-store commissions on digital subscriptions are commonly significant, often in the 15% to 30% range depending on the platform and program.

The difference is who can see your post. A Public Square post is visible to everyone, including people who are not on perso, so your work stays discoverable. A perso Square post is visible only to members, and every member is ID-verified. Interaction works the same in both: only members can reply, like, repost, or follow, which is why bots and anonymous accounts cannot take part anywhere on perso.