Enso — the social app for one school at a time
Enso is a social app for the students of one school. It is free for everyone, carries no adverts, and nothing about an account can be bought.
Inside it there are messages and calls, communities with their own channels, a marketplace that is only your school, events, stories and reels — with no algorithm deciding what you see, and nothing that makes one student rank above another.
Joining is free and always will be. You need a username and a password — and, if your school has set an invite code, that too.
What you can do on Enso
Messages and calls
Direct messages with photos, GIFs, stickers, voice notes and video reactions, plus voice and video calls between two people.
Communities
A space for your class, your team or your club, each with its own channels, roles and member list.
A marketplace for your school
Buy and sell inside your own school rather than with strangers, with the same reporting and moderation as everything else.
Events
Events with real start times, RSVPs and attendee lists, hosted by a person or by a community they actually belong to.
Stories, reels and the Drop
Stories that go in a day, reels that do not, and one five-minute window each day when the whole school posts a photo at once.
Free now and study rooms
Enter your timetable and see which friends are free this period, or sit in a shared study room with a timer and a count of who else is working.
What makes Enso different
Nothing here runs forever. The Drop opens once a day for five minutes and then closes. A story lasts a day. The feed tells you when you have reached the end instead of quietly loading more. An app that never finishes is an app that keeps a fourteen-year-old on it at midnight, and every surface here is built to finish.
Your account is private by default. That is the setting you get by doing nothing, and it covers your posts, your stories and your profile together. Friendship is mutual and has to be accepted; there are no followers and no follower count.
Nothing about standing is for sale. Enso is free and has no adverts. The one optional purchase is decoration — a badge and a few colour themes — and it cannot buy points, levels, a place on the weekly board, reach or moderation.
Time spent is not scored. Study hours earn no points and stories earn none either, because a number you can farm by leaving a tab open is not worth having.
Safety, moderation and privacy
Most of the people on Enso are under 18 and no school administers it, so blocking, reporting and moderation are real features rather than a form that points at somebody else. Reports pick from a fixed list of reasons, enough reports hide something until a person has read it, and the outcome comes back to whoever filed it — a report that disappears is indistinguishable from a button that does nothing.
Written content is screened before it is published. Pictures, video and audio are not examined automatically, and the rules say so rather than implying more: human reporting is the detection layer for those, and a filter trusted further than it goes is how this kind of feature hurts somebody.
Enso holds no email addresses — account recovery is a code handed out when you join — and it has no adverts, no analytics SDK and no third-party trackers. Student content is not on the open web: every page that holds any of it requires signing in. The privacy policy lists what is stored and what leaves the server, and deleting an account is described on a page that needs no account to read.
Questions
What is Enso?
Enso is a social app built for one school at a time. It holds the things a school actually uses — direct messages and calls, communities with their own channels, a marketplace that is only your school, events, stories, reels and a daily photo drop — instead of a feed that never ends. It is used by students themselves; no school administers it.
Who is Enso for?
Enso is for the students of a single school, and most of them are under 18. That shapes the whole app: accounts are private unless you change it, blocking and reporting are built in rather than bolted on, and nothing on the app can be bought that would make one student rank above another.
Is Enso free?
Enso is free and carries no adverts. There is one optional purchase, Enso Plus, which is a one-off payment for thirty days and grants only decoration — a badge, a colourway for it and a few accent themes. It does not renew, so there is nothing to remember to cancel, and it cannot buy points, levels, a place on the weekly board, extra reach or moderation.
Is Enso free, and do you need an invite code to join?
Enso is free for everyone and there is nothing to pay to join or to keep using it. Signing up takes a username and a password. Some schools also set an invite code, which is a shared string handed out by whoever runs that school's deployment; where one is set you need it as well, and where one is not the link is enough.
Is Enso private, and who can see what you post?
An Enso account is private by default — that is the setting you get by doing nothing, and it covers posts, stories and the profile together. A private account's posts and stories reach friends and people in the same communities, and nobody else. Blocking closes contact in both directions. Nothing a student posts is on the open web: every page that holds student content requires signing in, and search engines are told not to index them.
Does Enso show adverts or sell data?
No. Enso has no adverts, no analytics SDK and no third-party trackers, and nothing about an account is sold. It asks for a name, a username and a password; there is no email address anywhere in the database, which is why account recovery is a code handed out at sign-up rather than a reset link.
How does moderation work on Enso?
Reporting and blocking on Enso are real features with a queue behind them. Reports pick from a fixed list of reasons, enough reports hide something until a person has looked at it, and the outcome of a report is sent back to whoever filed it. Written content is screened automatically before it is published. Pictures, video and audio are not examined automatically — human reporting is the detection layer for those, and the rules page says so rather than implying more. The rules are published and readable before you join.
Is there an Enso app for Android or iPhone?
Enso installs from the browser. Opening it and choosing Add to Home Screen on Android or iPhone gives an app that opens without an address bar, works from the home screen and receives notifications. An Android build is in preparation and is not on Google Play yet; there is no iPhone App Store listing.
How do you delete an Enso account?
Deleting an Enso account is done from the app's own settings, and the page at /delete-account describes it without needing an account to read. Deletion takes forty-eight hours, during which signing in cancels it. After that the account's posts, listings, messages and points are destroyed; a few things are kept and that page lists each of them and says why.
Is Enso run by a school?
No. Enso is run by the people who deploy it, not by a school, and there is no staff room to escalate to. That is why moderation, blocking and reporting are built into the app itself rather than being a form that points at somebody else, and why the rules and the privacy policy are published in plain language rather than as terms nobody reads.