Crossed Paths

Have we met
before?

Your photos already remember every street you stood on. crosd reads only the where and when written into them, draws your trace, and — with mutual consent — shows where your path crossed someone else's, before you ever met.

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iPhone · photos never leave your phone · both sides must say yes

Same bench, four days apart.Near miss · Yıldız Park
Same ferry, opposite decks.Crossing · Karaköy — Kadıköy
Two rows apart, same concert.Crossing · KüçükÇiftlik Park
Same street market, 11 minutes apart.Near miss · Feriköy
How it works

Three steps. No accounts,
no maps shared.

1

Draw your trace

crosd reads only the location and timestamp already written into your photos — on your phone — and turns years of them into a private map of where your life has been.

14,208 photos → 312 places
2

Invite one person

Send a one-time link or show a QR code. It works once and dies in 24 hours. Nothing is compared until the other person says yes.

crosd.app/i/k7m2xp · expires 24h
3

See where you crossed

Both of you see only the overlaps — the square you both stood in, and when. Never each other's full maps, never the photos.

× 2 crossings · 1 near miss
Privacy

Built so we couldn't peek,
even if we wanted to.

The whole point of crosd is a secret shared by exactly two people. The design makes anything else impossible.

Photos stay on your phone

The images are never opened, uploaded, or shown to anyone — crosd only reads the coordinates and dates your camera already saved into them.

Hashes, not places

Before anything leaves your phone, every place-time becomes a one-way code. The cloud compares codes; it never sees coordinates.

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Both sides say yes

Nothing is compared until the other person accepts your invite. Decline, and no one is told anything more than that.

Only the matches

Neither side ever sees the other's map — just the moments you were both in the same place. Delete your trace and it's gone from the cloud too.

Precision

You choose how close
"crossed" means.

Room

~50 m

The same café, the same platform, the same room. The closest — and the rarest.

Street

~150 m

The same block at the same time. The default — close enough to have passed each other.

Area

~1 km

The same neighbourhood, the same festival, the same shore. The widest net.

FAQ

Fair questions.

Does crosd upload my photos?

No — never. Your photos are not opened, uploaded, or analysed as images. crosd reads only the location and timestamp metadata your camera already wrote into them, entirely on your phone.

What does the other person actually see?

Only the crossings: the place-square you were both in, and when. They never see your full map, your photos, or anywhere you went alone — and you never see theirs.

What if I decline an invite?

Nothing is compared and nothing is revealed. The sender only learns that you declined — invite links also work exactly once and expire after 24 hours on their own.

Can I hide places like home or work?

Yes. Mark any place hidden with a radius around it and every photo taken there is excluded before anything is ever compared — the other side can't tell something was hidden.

How far back does it go?

As far as your photo library does. If your oldest geotagged photo is from 2009, your trace starts in 2009 — and so do your possible crossings.

Can I delete my trace?

One tap removes your synced trace from the cloud; deleting your account removes everything else with it. Delete means delete.

Someone's path has already
crossed yours.

Find out where — without either of you giving anything else away.

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