Balise

Balise · for people with something to show and say

Your moments deserve more than a caption.

Balise turns the photos behind what you love — a dinner, a bottle shared, something you cooked, a trip — into a Story you can shape with personal writing and chosen details, then share when it feels right.

Explore Stories See a creator’s flow

Start with a private draft. Make it yours. Share when you choose.

01 Story

Balise wrote the weekend while you were on the train.

It finds the trip, then writes it up: a title, the pictures in the order the nights happened, a line under each. You change a line or swap a picture. It’s yours before anyone sees it.

Story · written by Balise · draft

Japan by counters

Tokyo → Kyoto · 8–10 Nov 2024 · 31 photos

A Nikka 20 on Bar Higashi’s counter, then Kyoto’s eight courses two nights later.

  • A Nikka 20 Year Old with one large ice ball on a dark bar counter

    r1 · lead

    Shibuya, 22:37

    Eight seats, no sign, the whisky poured before you ask twice.

    Nikka 20 Year Old, one rock, Bar Higashi.

  • A small Japanese bar receipt on the counter, total ¥4,800

    r2

    The slip

    ¥4,800, paid at 22:41. The bottle is four minutes older than the receipt.

    Bar Higashi, the slip.

  • A kaiseki course on a wooden counter in Kyoto

    r3

    Kyoto, the counter

    Eight courses, no menu, the chef deciding. The last one arrived at 21:10.

    The counter, Kyoto.

The roll on this page is a demo. Yours writes your weekends.

I want that

02 Post

Then tap Post.

Open the Story, tap Post, pick Instagram or X. Three things happen, and none of them is posting.

1 · Photos
2 · Photos
3 · Photos

Balise prepares. You post.

It never posts for you, and it never will. Instagram’s own rules say so, and so do ours. The last tap is always yours, in Instagram’s own composer. Twenty captions a day; nobody has found the edge yet.

The originals stay yours.

Post uploads no new original. The photos go into an album in your own library, and the Story page shows the small copies it always did. A photo that is not on this iPhone stays out, and the sheet says so.

Instagram’s story dies in a day. Yours stays.

The QR on the cover points at the Story page, which stays up until you take it down, and says so when you do.

03 Your AI

Your agent can ask your camera roll too.

Connect Balise to Claude or ChatGPT and the same memory answers your assistant: the trip, the photos, the draft. Facts by default. Pictures only after you approve the exact request in Balise; access ends one hour after approval. How the connector works.

04 Invite only

Point it at last weekend.

Leave your email. Invites go out in small waves — when yours lands, five minutes on your roll and the first Story exists. That’s the only email.

The first 90 days are the whole thing, free. Then plans from $4.99 a month. iOS 17+. Pictures stay on your phone.

Invite only

I want that.

Balise is invite only for now. Leave your email and you’re in line. Invites go out in small waves. Yours comes with the setup steps.

Free for 90 days. No automatic charge.

iOS 17+. Pictures stay on your phone.