Mayank Bidawatka, co-founder of the Indian social network Koo, is back with a new idea. After Koo’s shutdown last year, Bidawatka has launched PicSee, a new photo-sharing app that reimagines how friends exchange photos. The app is available now on both iOS and Android. PicSee uses face detection to automatically find photos of your friends in your camera roll and share them.
Everyone has photos of their friends that never get shared. Sometimes we forget, and sometimes they get buried in thousands of other pictures. Bidawatka wanted to fix that. “I’ve been thinking about the problem of personal photo sharing for years,” he said. After Koo’s closure, he took time to refine this idea, and that’s how PicSee was born.
PicSee automatically scans your gallery for faces of friends. When both of you are on the app, it can detect photos of each other and suggest sharing them. Once your friend accepts your share request, they get the first batch of photos you have of them. The app keeps running quietly in the background and finds new photos too. You can review what you are sending, but if you forget to share them, PicSee will automatically send the photos after 24 hours.
One of the biggest concerns with any photo-sharing app is privacy. PicSee’s design makes this a top priority. All face recognition happens on your device, not on company servers. The app sends photos over an encrypted connection and stores them locally. Nothing goes to the cloud. You can even recall photos after sending, which removes them from your friend’s app too.
To make things safer, PicSee also filters out NSFW content and blocks screenshots. This gives users more confidence in sharing personal moments without worrying about misuse.
While the idea is interesting, its use case is limited to people you are truly close to. Most users are unlikely to enable automatic sharing with everyone they know. Another challenge is habit. People already share photos through apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Snapchat. Convincing them to move to a new platform will require PicSee to prove it offers something genuinely easier and more meaningful.
PicSee is already working on expanding what it can do. The team plans to introduce shared albums, duplicate detection, album suggestions, and even integration with Google Photos and iCloud. There are also plans to extend the face detection system to videos.
The app already includes a chat feature, which allows users to comment directly on shared photos. The goal is to make PicSee not just a sharing tool, but a social space built around real, personal photos.
