Free, always
$0
Redeem an invite, connect with people, generate your own invites, and watch every moment your people share. Indefinitely, with no posting allowance and no trial that turns into a bill.
Pricing
The deal, in one breath.
Receiving is free, forever — joining your family here never costs anything. Sharing is a subscription, because servers are real: $2 a month or $15 a year. The price follows what VACUUM actually costs to run — if our costs drop, so does the price. Cancel in one tap. No ads, no brands, no data games, ever.
Plans
Monthly
$2 / month
Share your own moments. Cancel in one action, whenever you like.
Yearly
$15 / year
The same thing, paid once a year. Monthly comes to $24 over twelve months, so this saves you $9. Neither option is preselected and neither is the recommended one.
Prices are in US dollars and are the same everywhere. Local taxes (VAT, GST and equivalents) are added at checkout where they apply.
What a subscription gets you
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Posting your own moments
A moment is up to eight photos or short clips, delivered to everyone you are connected to. Video is up to 30 seconds each.
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Thirty-day delivery, then deletion
Everything you share reaches your people’s phones and is deleted everywhere — ours and theirs — 30 days later.
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Private replies on your moments
Reactions and one-to-one replies attached to the moment they are about, visible to nobody else, gone when the moment goes.
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Two active devices
Every account gets two, whether you pay or not. Your phone and one more.
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All twenty-four themes
Unlocked for everyone, paid or not. There is no premium appearance tier.
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Invites to hand out
Codes you give to the people you actually want here. Free accounts can generate them too.
How you subscribe
Checkout is not open yet. When it opens, you will subscribe here on vacuum.social, from your own account — the apps themselves contain no prices, no purchase flow and no link to one, on every platform, in one build. Receiving moments stays free either way, and nothing about the app stops working if you never subscribe.
Billing will be handled by Paddle, who are the seller of record and deal with VAT and GST wherever you are.
Questions before you buy: support@vacuum.social. Refunds are covered by the Refund Policy; the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy apply to every purchase.
What we commit to
Cancelling takes one action
No retention flow, no guilt screen, no are-you-sure funnel, no controls buried three levels down. One action, done.
The price follows the costs
There is no legacy rate and nobody is grandfathered: everyone pays the current honest price. It changes at most twice a year, is announced at least 60 days ahead, applies at your next renewal and never mid-cycle, and every change is substantiated in the annual report. If costs drop, the price drops.
Two devices, free or paid
Every account gets two active devices, whether you pay or not. A reader’s second phone costs us close to nothing, so it costs you nothing.
No trial that becomes a bill
If a trial ever exists, it ends and asks. Nothing auto-converts.
Lapsing costs you nothing you had
Stop paying and you revert to the free tier: connections intact, unexpired moments intact, read-only for new posting. Nothing is held hostage.
A failed payment is not a lapse
If a charge fails, posting keeps working through the retry window and you are shown the honest end date. Only when retries are exhausted does the account lapse.
Moments already sent still arrive
Anything uploaded while you were subscribed was paid for, and it is delivered even if your subscription ends first. Recipients did nothing wrong.
We publish where the money went
Once a year: roughly what came in, what infrastructure cost, what the maintainer was paid, with receipts. Demonstrated sunlight, not pledged virtue.
We say what happens if we close
VACUUM dies if the bills stop being paid. You would get notice, and you would lose nothing, because there is no archive to lose.
Refunds
If we ban your account, you are refunded the unused part of what you paid, prorated. The full refund policy says it in detail.
Buyer support, including refund requests: support@vacuum.social