your people.your world.
Post your life. Build your zones. Go live. The social app made for Africa and the diaspora — from Kinshasa to Lagos, Paris to Atlanta — and open to everyone.
Post it. Zone it. Go live.
One app for the whole of your social life — your feed, your communities, your people. Built around how we actually connect.
Your feed, your culture.
Photos, stories, voice notes, a track on loop. Share life as it happens — in the languages you actually speak.
Communities you build.
Your city, your sound, your faith, your hustle. Join zones around what you love — or start your own and bring your people in.
Presence, not just profiles.
Go live, pull up to lives near you, talk face to face on audio and video. Real conversations with people who get you.
What's happening tonight.
their feed.
their rules.
their world.
we built
our own.
The big platforms were never built for us. Our languages came last, our cities were an afterthought, our culture got flattened into a hashtag. Ontryst starts from the opposite place: Africa first, the diaspora with it — and everyone welcome.
It's a social platform where the timeline speaks Lingala and Swahili, where your community has a home you control, and where "nearby" means your actual street in Kinshasa, Lagos, Paris or Atlanta — not a server on another continent.
Found their people, in their own words.
We're picky on purpose.
Every account is selfie-verified before it touches the feed. Bots get nuked. Stolen photos get nuked. Anything that touches a minor is a permanent, no-appeal ban, reported to the appropriate authorities.
We'd rather be smaller and safer than the other thing.
Read our Child Safety Standardsyour people
are here.
Three minutes to set up. One verified selfie. Your feed, your zones, your world — from day one.