App guide · Spiral

Posts and comments

Share photos, videos and text with everyone, with your followers or only with yourself, and decide who sees what.

Create a post#

1. In Spiral, tap the round spiral button at the bottom right.
2. Write your text ("What's going on?"), up to 400 characters: the counter is next to the Post button. Use @ to mention people and # for hashtags.
3. Add up to 10 photos and videos from the Gallery or the Camera (icons at the bottom). With more than one they become a swipeable carousel.
4. Choose the audience: Public, Friends or Private (only you). New posts start as Friends.
5. Optional: Add place (pin icon), Tag a store, music, a Spotify song, for videos a Cover and Add subtitles, or a schedule (calendar icon).
6. Optional: tap the eye button to see a Preview.
7. Tap Post.

A post needs at least some text, a photo or video, or a Spotify song. Long videos are fine: uploads can take up to an hour. If you cancel while uploading, the app asks for confirmation. If you leave the editor before posting, what you wrote is kept in Drafts.

Preview before posting#

In the editor bar tap the eye button: you see the post exactly as it will look in the feed, with your photo and name, the text with mentions and hashtags, the photos and videos with the same cropping as the feed, the place and the Spotify song. From the preview tap Keep editing to change something, or Post to publish.

Who can see your post#

Someone who opens your profile from the web without an account sees at most your 12 latest public posts. People you have blocked, and people who blocked you, never see your posts.

Mentions, hashtags and location#

• @mentions: the people you mention get a notification and their name links to their profile.
• #hashtags work in every alphabet (for example #café, #España, #Київ, #東京): they are highlighted in full, you can tap them and search them. They make your public post appear on the hashtag's page, in Trends and in Explore suggestions for people interested in that topic. Advertisers can also target people by the hashtags they use and like.
• Location: shows the place on the post and puts it on LineMap; the country counts for your country's Trends. With Use my current location only your city and country are shown, rounded to about 1 km. Tap the X to remove it before posting.

Places and stores in posts#

Tell people where a photo was taken, or which store sold you what you are wearing. Both are free, in the app and on web.linework.app.

1. In Create post (or Edit post) tap Add place (the pin icon).
2. Choose how: Use my current location (only your city and country are shown), Show places near me (bars, restaurants, shops, squares nearby) or type in Search a place, city or address. You can choose any place, even far from where you are now.
3. Tap the place: it appears in the editor. Choosing another replaces it; the X removes it.
4. To tag stores, tap Tag a store, search in Search Bloop stores and choose up to 5 active, verified Bloop stores. Tap Done.

• The post shows 📍 the place's name under your name, and the tagged stores as labels. Tap the place to open its place page: map, address, Directions (Apple Maps or Google Maps), View on LineMap and the other Posts here.
• Tap a store label to open the store on Bloop. The store owner gets the notification "tagged your store … in a post"; tapping it opens your post.
• Privacy: only the place you choose is saved (its public address), never your phone's exact position. The app asks for location only while you use it and only when you tap Show places near me or Use my current location; on the web the browser asks only when you tap it. You can always search by name without location.
• Places come from OpenStreetMap. If you search a lot in a short time, wait a moment and try again.

Products in posts and videos#

Show what you are selling or wearing, and let people buy it without leaving the video.

1. In Create post or Edit post, first tag at least one store with Tag a store.
2. Tap Tag a product and choose up to 5 products of the tagged stores. Tap Done.

• In the full-screen video feed, the post shows a 🛍 Shop label with the name of the first product. Tapping it opens the product: photo, price, availability and quantity, with Add to cart (or Choose options if it has variants) and Go to cart. You then pay with the normal Bloop checkout.
• Only active products of the tagged stores can be tagged. If you remove all the stores, the products are removed too.
• For now product tags are in the app only, not on the web app.

Music, filters and drawing#

• Add sound: For you, Trending, New, Saved or search; choose the part of the track, keep or mute the video's own audio and set the music volume.
• Spotify: attach a song as a "Listen on Spotify" card (a link, not audio in the video).
• FILTERS on each photo or video: Natural, Warm, Cool, Film, B&W, Creative, with intensity; Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, tint, fade, highlights, shadows, grain and vignette; Save as my filter. Hold the photo to compare with the original.
• Draw (pen, marker, neon, eraser), text and stickers.

Video cover and subtitles#

• Cover: on a video in the editor tap Cover and drag the slider over the frames to choose the one shown on your profile grid, in the feed and in Explore. Tap Done. If you don't choose, Linework uses the first clear frame, never a black one.
• Subtitles: with a video of up to 10 minutes, tap Add subtitles in the editor. After you post, Linework writes them automatically from the video's audio (the language is detected by itself); you see Subtitles in preparation… on your video, usually for less than a minute. The post is published even if the subtitles can't be created.
• People watching tap CC on the video, in the Spiral feed or full screen, to show or hide them; the app remembers their choice.
• To correct them: ⋯ on your post → Subtitles. Tap a line to fix the text (the timings stay the same, an empty line is removed), or use Create again and Remove subtitles.

Schedule a post#

In the editor tap the calendar icon, pick date and time (your time zone is shown) and tap Schedule post. The editor closes and you see "Your post has been scheduled". Until then nobody sees the post; at that time it is published by itself (within a few seconds) and appears as a new post at the top of the feed.

Drafts and scheduled posts#

If you leave the editor without posting (X, back, or the app goes to the background or closes), the post is saved by itself in Drafts: text, mentions, photos and videos, place, stores, Spotify song and audience. You don't need to do anything.

1. Open your Profile and tap the tab with the pencil icon (Drafts and scheduled). It is visible only to you.
2. Drafts: tap a draft to continue editing it; the bin deletes it.
3. Scheduled: each post shows when it will come out. Use Change date/time (then Save) or Cancel scheduling: the post isn't published and goes back to Drafts, where you can edit it and publish or schedule it again.

Drafts are kept on your phone, not on your account: you don't see them on another phone or on the web. Scheduled posts are on Linework's servers and come out even if your phone is off.

Edit, delete or promote your post#

Open ⋯ on your post: Edit post, Delete post (with confirmation), Share post, Download, Subtitles (videos), or Sponsor post to show it to more people in the feed and stories: the Ads manager opens with the campaign already filled in (see Ads). Linework Fans creators also see Who can see this post (see Linework Fans).

Likes, reactions and comments#

• Tap the heart to like; long-press it to react with ❤️ 😂 😢 🔥 🙃. Each person has one reaction per post, which also counts as a like; next to the likes you see the most used emojis.
• Comments can be text, a GIF, a photo or a voice comment (up to 60 seconds). You can reply to comments and translate them.
• Photo in a comment or a reply: tap the photo button next to GIF and the microphone, then Choose from gallery or Take a photo. One photo per comment, up to 10 MB. Tap a photo in a comment to see it full screen.
• Under a post, Translate post translates the text into the app language; Show original only brings it back.

Repost#

A repost puts someone else's post on your profile and in your followers' feed, with its author in plain view. It is the quickest way to recommend something.

1. Tap the two arrows button under a post (in the video feed it is in the column on the right, next to the heart, comments, share and save).
2. The post appears in your followers' feed with Reposted by @you on top; the original author's name is highlighted and tapping it opens the original post. On your profile grid reposts have the two-arrows icon.
3. To take it back, tap the two arrows again (Undo repost): "Repost removed from your profile".

• The author gets a notification the first time you repost.
• Privacy: a repost never shows more than the original. If the author deletes the post, makes it non-public or blocks someone, the original disappears from the repost for whoever can no longer see it.
• Don't want your posts reposted? Turn off Allow sharing in Menu → Settings → Post settings.

Share#

• Repost to your Spiral (see above).
• Send in chat to one or more people.
• More opens your phone's share sheet; you can also copy the link. Linework links open directly in the app.

Download photos and videos#

Save the photos and videos of a post to your phone's gallery, for example a recipe, a map or your own post when the original is no longer on your phone.

1. Tap Share on the post (also from the video feed) and choose Download, or use ⋯ → Download.
2. The first time, allow access to Photos.
3. You see "Saved to your gallery": all the photos and videos of the post are saved, carousels included.

• You can always download your own posts. Other people's posts only if they are public posts of a public account and the author allows it. Exclusive Fans posts can never be downloaded.
• Your choice: in Menu → Settings → Post settings, Allow downloading my posts (on by default) decides whether others can download the photos and videos of your public posts, including those already published.

AI labels#

• Videos made with Linework's AI video tools show Made with AI on the post.
• Accounts run by Linework that post and comment automatically have an AI badge next to their name, in posts, comments and on the profile: they are not real people.

Other people's posts#

From ⋯: share, Download (if allowed), follow or unfollow, Hide Post (with Undo), Report post or block the author. Posts you report disappear from your feed. Reports are anonymous; reports of child abuse, terrorism and self-harm hide the post right away until it is reviewed. See Safety.

Good to know#

• Why can't someone see my post? Check the audience: with Friends only your followers see it, with Private only you. If your account is private, even public posts are for followers only.
• Can I change the audience later? Yes: ⋯ → Edit post lets you change the text and the audience.
• Where do my posts appear? On your profile, in the Spiral feed of the people who can see them, and videos also in the Home video feed. Public posts can also show up in Explore, on hashtag pages and, with a location, on the map.
• Where did my unfinished post go? In your Profile, tab with the pencil (Drafts and scheduled) → Drafts.
• Why can't I repost or download a post? Only public posts of public accounts can be reposted, and downloaded only if the author allows it. See Repost and Download.
• How do I get more reach? Post in public, use a few relevant hashtags, add a location for local posts, and use Sponsor post for the posts that matter.