Retold: From whoever was standing there.
No feed decides what you see. You pick a place on the map and watch what the people who were there recorded: transcribed into your language, with the time, the place and whatever corroborates it.
Citizen reporting, by place · In development
What it does
- Map first — Browse by place instead of an engagement algorithm. Open a city and see what people documented there.
- Every language — Uploads are transcribed, captioned and translated automatically.
- Evidence, not verdicts — Independent corroboration, time, location, metadata and duplicate detection give context rather than a truth stamp.
- Safe to publish — Reporters control location precision, so documentation does not expose a home or a street.
- Built for blocked networks — VPN integration, alternate upload paths, strong compression and delayed sync are part of the design.
- The long game — Reports remain attached to place, forming a living historical map over time.
Stand there. Record. Publish.
- Record where it happened — A short video from the place itself. You set how precisely the location is published.
- It is transcribed and translated — Captions and translations are generated on upload, so a report travels past the language it was filed in.
- Context is gathered, not verdicts — Time, place, metadata and independent corroboration are shown alongside it. The reader draws the conclusion.
- Shape
- World map · optional feed
- Media
- Short field reports · captions · translations
- Trust
- Corroboration and provenance signals
- Clients
- Web first · Android and iOS after
- Status
- In development
Questions
Does publishing expose where I live?
You set location precision on every report. A city-level pin is a valid report; a street-level one is your choice, not a requirement.
Is this a fact-checking service?
No. It surfaces corroboration, timing and provenance, and leaves the judgement with the reader. A truth stamp would be a lie about what software can do.
What if my connection is throttled or filtered?
Uploads compress hard, take alternate paths and can sync later. Working on a bad network is a design constraint, not an afterthought.
Who owns the footage?
You do. Reports stay attached to the place they document and to the account that filed them.
Get Retold
Retold is in development, web first, with Android and iOS after. Nothing is open to the public yet.