Koo co-founder Mayank Bidawatka has launched a new app called PicSee, designed to help users rediscover photos of themselves stored in their friends’ phones. The app eliminates the need for awkward requests like “send me my pics” by automating the photo-sharing process.
PicSee works by scanning your gallery to identify friends and connecting you with them. Once both sides approve, photos are exchanged automatically, giving each user 24 hours to review what’s being shared before it leaves their phone. The app is built on a “give-to-get” model, users receive photos of themselves only after sharing photos of their friends, making the process truly mutual.
Emphasizing privacy, PicSee ensures that photos are never stored on external servers. All data remains encrypted on users’ devices, and the app blocks screenshots while filtering sensitive images. “It’s probably one of the safest photo apps ever built,” Mayank said.
Despite its soft launch, PicSee has already gained momentum, active in 27 countries and 160 cities, with over 1,50,000 photos exchanged so far. Impressively, 30% of users have discovered more photos of themselves on PicSee than in their own galleries.
As billions of photos are taken worldwide every year, PicSee aims to make sharing as effortless as capturing them. “We’re building this with all our heart. PicSee is here to bring your memories home,” Mayank added.
