Circles is an end-to-end encrypted social network app that enables
Circles is no longer being maintained by FUTO. You can find the latest version of Circles iOS at its [new home on Github](https://github.com/circles-project/circles-ios.git).
friends and families to securely share stories and photos while
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safeguarding security and privacy.
Mobile apps for [Android](https://gitlab.futo.org/circles/circles-android) and [iOS](https://github.com/cvwright/circles-ios) are under active development.
Circles is built on [Matrix](https://matrix.org/), and as such, it inherits many nice
properties from Matrix, including:
* Federation - Anyone can run their own server, and users on different servers can communicate with each other seamlessly.
* Open APIs and data formats - Circles uses standard Matrix message types, and it works
with any spec-compliant Matrix server.
* Security - Circles offers the same security guarantees as Matrix, using the same
E2E encryption code as in Element and other popular Matrix clients.
