Everyone in this room is a stranger. Most of them shouldn’t be.
Ceya shows you who’s actually around you right now — and who you already share a friend with. You turn it on for an hour, you meet someone, and then it’s off again.
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RADAR
See who’s actually here.
Open Ceya and you see the people in the same café, class or coworking space as you — but only the ones who chose to be seen, just like you did. No map, no feed of strangers from three cities away. Thirty metres, right now.
- No tracking
- Everyone visible chose to be
- Off again when your timer ends
MUTUAL FRIENDS
You’ve been oneperson away.This whole time.
If someone nearby shares a friend with you, Ceya tells you. Not a match — an introduction. It’s the oldest way people have ever met each other, and somehow nobody had built it for the room you’re standing in.
VISIBILITY
Off by default.On when you say so.
Ceya shows nothing until you turn yourself visible, and it stops the second the timer runs out. Choose who can see you — everyone, friends of friends, or no one at all. Whoever can see you can be seen by you. It only ever goes both ways.
ADDING FRIENDS · TWO WAYS IN
There is no search bar.
You can add someone who’s on your radar — meaning they’re in the room or near you — or you can send one person your own invite link. That’s it. No browsing, no following, no requests from someone three cities away. It’s slower than every other app, and that is exactly the point.
Not in the same room? Send your personal link over WhatsApp or email. One link, one person, your call.
YOUR INVITE LINK
ceya.app/u/clara
One link, one person. Send it over WhatsApp or email.
YOUR PEOPLE
A feed of onlypeople you’ve met.
Photos from the friends you made, in the order they posted them. No followers, no strangers, no algorithm deciding who matters today. It’s small on purpose — that’s the point of it.
You already know the feeling. A hundred people in a room and you talk to the two you came with. Somewhere in there is a person you’d have got on with for the next ten years — you just walked past them, and neither of you knew. Ceya is a very small fix for a very old problem.
PRIVACY
Private by design.
The apps that came before this one tracked you in the background all day and drained your battery doing it. Ceya only runs when you switch it on, only sees the thirty metres around you, and keeps no trail of any of it. That isn’t a policy we wrote — it’s the only thing the technology can do.
FAQ
Questions.
Is this a dating app?
No. There’s no swiping, no liking, no rating and no way to browse people you haven’t met. That said, we’re not naive — people meet people, and sometimes that turns into something. What we’ve built is a tool for the room you’re in, not a place to shop for faces.
Does Ceya know where I am?
No. It runs on Bluetooth, which only tells us that two phones were briefly close to each other. There is no GPS, no map, no address and no history of where you’ve been. We couldn’t reconstruct your day if we tried.
Who can see me?
Only the people you choose, only while your timer is running, and only if they can be seen by you too. Visibility here is always mutual — there’s no way to watch a room without being in it.
What if nobody’s nearby?
Then Ceya is quiet, which is honest. It works best where people stay a while: a café, a class, a coworking floor, a shared house. We open new places only when enough people are there to make it worth opening.
Why can’t I search for people?
Because a search bar turns people into a directory. You add someone who’s on your radar, or someone you sent your personal link to. It’s slower — and it’s the reason a mutual friend on Ceya is a real mutual friend.
Will it drain my battery?
No. Ceya uses Bluetooth Low Energy and only while you’ve switched yourself visible.
Can I block someone?
Yes, from any profile, and it takes effect straight away. They won’t appear on your radar and you won’t appear on theirs. You can undo it in Settings.
How old do you have to be?
18. No exceptions.
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
I spilled a beer on a stranger in Costa Rica. We said sorry, we said it’s fine, and that was the whole conversation. The next night, at a different party, we spoke again — and found out we had the same close friend in Munich. Ten thousand kilometres from home. It took an accident and a second chance to find out. That’s the part I couldn’t stop thinking about: how many we all walk past.
Luca
Founder, Ceya
Go find out who’sin the room.
It takes an hour and it costs nothing. The worst case is that you meet someone.