A Private Ritual

One honest photo a day.

Capture what matters, both sides of it. Front and rear camera, once a day. No feeds. No pressure. Just your life, becoming a time capsule.

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The Faciem capture screen on an iPhone: a warm sunlit room from the rear camera with a small front-camera selfie tucked into the corner.
Yours only Stored locally. Encrypted. Always yours.

What We Believe

Built on three quiet convictions.

Your life is not content.

Your data stays on your device. Nothing leaves it unless you choose to.

Ritual over volume.

One intentional capture a day is more meaningful than a thousand unthinking ones.

Time is the reward.

The value isn’t in the moment. It’s in looking back. Days become perspective.

Front and rear.
At once.

One tap fires both cameras simultaneously. You get the self and the scene: the rare truthful pairing that shows what your day actually felt like, not just what you pointed at.

  • Capture

    One tap, no countdown

  • Saved

    Both frames, together

  • Feedback

    A haptic when it lands

Two photos paired together: a sunlit room and the person who captured it, like a single dual-camera frame.

One capture. Then put it down.

Faciem is built around a single daily moment. No endless scroll of near-duplicates. No camera-roll bloat. The constraint is the gift. It makes the one capture mean something.

A single phone resting face-down on a warm surface: the day’s one capture, set aside.

A year, visible at a glance.

Faciem’s timeline is quiet and chronological. Scroll through the months to see your face, your rooms, your outfits settle into something, a life being lived rather than performed.

  • Order

    Chronological, top to bottom

  • Detail

    Tap a moment to zoom

  • Algorithm

    None

A contact-sheet grid of a year of daily captures. Each print shows what the rear camera saw, with a small selfie from the front camera tucked into the corner, across changing seasons, weather and light.

Seven days. One quiet scoreboard.

A weekly summary shows your streak, this week, and all-time, with equal honesty. There’s no punishment for missed days. Just a reminder that showing up is its own reward.

  • Streaks

    This week and all time

  • Tone

    One line of encouragement

  • Pressure

    No badges, no guilt

One week of daily captures, stacked. The first is a morning: coffee and toast on a sunlit counter, with a small selfie tucked into the corner of the frame.

Watch the year you actually lived.

Faciem weaves your daily captures into a private film you can generate anytime. The longer you’ve shown up, the more there is to watch. Share it, keep it, show it to whoever earned the invitation. Or watch it alone. It’s yours.

  • Speeds

    Slow to fast

  • Export

    Native share

  • Rendered

    On your device

On your phone, by default.

Faciem has no account system. Your archive lives on your device by default, and any feature that would change that ships off by default, opt-in only. What you capture lives where you captured it: in your pocket, not ours.

No account Just open and capture
On-device SwiftData local store
No trackers Zero analytics, zero SDKs
Your data Export + delete, any time

Pricing

Everything it does today is free.

The whole app. No trial, no tiers, nothing saved back for a paid version.

Faciem

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The whole app. Not a trial.

  • Front + rear capture, every day
  • Timeline + Week
  • Timelapse, three speeds, share anywhere
  • Full export, JPEG + JSON
  • BeReal import
  • Private by architecture, not by policy
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Everything Faciem does today is free, and it stays free. If we ever build something that costs us money every month to run, like keeping a copy of your archive somewhere safe off your phone, that would be its own optional thing. We would tell you plainly what it costs before you paid for anything, and nothing you already have would move behind it.

The app disappears, and the year remains.

FAQ

Questions people quietly ask.

Still curious? Email us. Real answers, not canned copy.

Is Faciem really free to use?
Yes, all of it. Daily capture, the timeline, the week, the timelapse, and full export. There is no subscription, no trial, and nothing held back for a paid version. If we ever build something that costs real money every month to run, it will be its own optional thing, and we will tell you what it costs before you pay anything.
Where do my captures live?
On your device, in SwiftData. By default, no server is involved, so if you delete the app, your captures go with it. Export before you delete.
Can I miss a day?
Yes. Faciem records skips without judgment. Missing a day is part of the year, and still worth showing up the day after.
Will there ever be cloud sync?
Not in v1. Your captures live on your device, and you can export all of them whenever you want. Whether an optional off-device backup makes sense later is something we are still working out. If it ever ships it will be opt-in, off by default, and priced for what it actually costs to run.
When can I make a timelapse?
Anytime you like. The timelapse weaves your daily captures into a private film at three speeds, and it gets richer the longer you show up. There is no day-count to reach and nothing to unlock first.
Can I share my captures?
Individual moments and the timelapse both, anywhere you want. Faciem never auto-shares anything.
Can I bring my BeReal photos?
Yes, all of them, and it's free. Settings → Data → Import from BeReal reads your BeReal GDPR export (a .zip) and adds those days to your timeline, entirely on-device. Every retake comes across too, not just the last photo of each day. We tested it on a real 1,408-post export: 1,407 came in, and the one that didn't was missing from BeReal's own archive, which the app told us in plain words rather than failing quietly. Stopping partway is safe, it tells you exactly how much was saved, and running the same file again finishes the job. To get the export: in BeReal, go to Profile → Settings → Help → Contact us and request a copy of your data. The zip usually arrives within a couple of hours, sometimes up to two days.
What happens if an import or a save goes wrong?
It tells you. Faciem never reports success it didn't earn: if something fails to save you get the real count of what was kept, and an import that hits an unreadable file gives you the date, the reason in plain words, and what to do about it. Nothing is quietly dropped, and the background tidy-up can't touch an import that's still running.
Will it nag me?
No. One reminder a day, at a consistent time inside the window you choose, and taking your photo cancels it. First run asks for one thing at a time, and the Photos permission is an in-app card after your first reveal, never a system dialog thrown over the moment you're trying to capture.
Will it ask me to delete things to save space?
Never. Storage tells you what you have, like "1,413 moments, June 2023 to July 2026", and nothing else. Faciem does not warn you about space and does not suggest deleting memories. Keeping them is the point.

Start Your Year

Two seconds a day.
A year you can hold.

Faciem is coming to the App Store. The whole app is free when it lands: capture, timeline, week, timelapse, and your archive exportable whenever you want it.

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