It's like TikTok's stitch feature — except that's the whole point. Someone posts 15 seconds. You add the next 15. Then someone you'll never meet adds the next. No solo posts, no followers, no algorithm. Adding is the welcome behavior.
HOW IT WORKS
Open the camera. Record 15 seconds. Tell a Karen story, ask a question, drop a confession, leave something unfinished. The hook is the bait.
Anyone scrolling the feed can tap + Add Part 2 and record the next 15 seconds. Their face. Their reply. Their twist. Then a different person adds Part 3. Then a different person adds Part 4. One Part per person, per chain, forever — nobody can farm engagement, nobody can outshout you. Every Part is a different voice.
Open the app later. Each new Part plays full-screen, one after the other. Your 15 seconds turned into a whole story — built by people you've never met.
A QUIET PROMISE
You can't farm engagement here. There are no follower counts, no leaderboards, no boost-this-post nudges, no algorithm deciding who's worth seeing.
And you can't outshout anyone. You get one Part per chain — ever. Post it, walk away. The next Part is somebody else's turn.
The only metric is: did somebody continue your story?
Make it weird. Make it honest. Make it dramatic. Make it small. People will pick up the thread — or they won't.
The rest of the internet is loud enough.
The moment someone opens the camera to add the next Part of a chain you’re watching, you see it. A soft red pulse. A running chat with the other people watching. A small window of their camera view, updating every half second.
You sit still and wait for a real human to show up. They frame the shot. They walk around the kitchen. They laugh at something off-camera. They hit record.
Then the 15 seconds arrive in the chain, they walk away, and every trace of the live window vanishes forever. The Part remains. The moment doesn’t.
StickyLoops is a free iPhone app where every video is the start of a chain. You record 15 seconds, and anyone in the world can record the next 15 seconds to continue the story. No solo posts — every clip is either a hook or a reply to one.
Yes. Free to download, free to post, free to watch. No subscriptions, no premium tier.
Because they turn every post into a popularity contest. On StickyLoops the only metric that matters is whether someone wanted to add the next 15 seconds to your story. That’s a better signal than a heart count, and it can’t be farmed.
No — one Part per person, per chain, forever. Once you’ve added your 15 seconds to a chain, that’s your voice. The next Part belongs to somebody else. This is the rule that makes StickyLoops different from every other social video app: nobody can post 10 times to the same chain and drown out other people. Every Part is a different person.
Tap the green “Add Part N” button on any video. The camera opens already bound to that chain. Record 15 seconds, post, and your reply becomes the next Part for everyone who watches.
When somebody opens the camera to add the next Part of a chain you’re watching, you see a soft red pulse: “Someone is recording Part N right now.” Wait 30–90 seconds and their Part arrives in the chain, live, while you watch. Nothing to scroll past — you sit and wait for a real human to show up.
Yes — if the recorder opts in. When they’re in the camera, they can turn on a small chat overlay for viewers. Everyone watching can talk to each other in real time. When the recorder posts or leaves, the whole conversation vanishes forever. No history, no thread, no farming.
Only if they opt in. StickyLoops has a “Camera Peek” toggle on the record screen. When it’s on, everyone watching the chain sees a small window of the recorder’s camera view, updating about twice per second. They see how many strangers are watching them the whole time. Peek turns off the moment they post, cancel, or leave the screen. Nothing is stored on our servers.
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