Crossings
How many times you've seen each other before you met
On a person's card in a venue or event room, AOA shows how many times you've already been close by. Where and when opens up once you've both agreed to meet.
Lina
In the room now
You've crossed paths 3 timesPlus 2 shared places at different times
Where and when shows after a mutual honk
The same coffee shop on Saturdays, the same gig last autumn, photos from the same embankment on the same evening. People walk the same places for years and never know it.
When the card in the room says "you've crossed paths 3 times", the two of you already share a bit of history. It makes the first word easier.
How we know
Only real places where you both were count
The same venue room
You both entered an AOA venue room with the tag on the table or a QR code and were there at the same time.
The same event
You were both at the same event on AOA.
Photos from the same street
Optional. A match is when you both took photos within ~200 m of each other, less than an hour apart.
Shared places at different times
AOA venues you've both been to, but on different days. They show as a separate line under the number.
Who sees what
The number first. Details when you both want them
You both see the number
"You've crossed paths 3 times" appears on the person's card in a venue or event room and in an AOA Connect meeting suggestion. With no crossings, the card says nothing.
Where and when, after a mutual honk
The venue, event, district and date open up once you've both agreed to meet. In AOA Connect, once you've met. Until you both agree, nobody works out where you've been.
Details with Premium
Everyone sees the number. The list of places and dates opens with Premium for the person looking.
What Premium includes
You've crossed paths 3 times
- Coffee shop in PodilBoth in the room · 14 March 2026
- Jazz night at a bookshopShared event · 2 November 2025
- PodilPhotos nearby · 7 August 2025
Been there at different times
- Coworking near the Golden Gate
- Coffee shop in Lukianivka
Only the two of you see this. We never show photos or exact addresses.
Photos and Timeline
Your phone reads only the date and place from a photo
Open Settings, go to Crossings and pick photos from your gallery. Your phone reads the date and place each was taken, and the photos stay in your gallery.
On iPhone it works right in the browser. On Android the browser doesn't get the location from photos, a limit of Android itself, so add a Timeline file from Google Maps there. Timeline works on iPhone too.
The photo itself stays on your phone
Privacy
What we don't see and never show
Crossings are counted so that neither we nor the other person learn where you live, work or spend your days.
Photos never leave your phone
We don't see or store them. Your phone does the counting, and only the date and a place rounded to ~100 m reach our server.
Home and work are dropped
Your phone drops the places where you take photos most often. Home and work from Timeline are dropped too.
No points, no addresses
The other person only ever sees the AOA venue name or the district, and the date.
Details only with consent
Where and when is visible only after a mutual honk or your meeting in AOA Connect.
Off in one tap
One switch turns Crossings off both ways, one button deletes every point from photos and Timeline.
Minors and blocking
Crossings don't work with minors. A block turns everything off between two people.
Open the person's card in an AOA venue or event room. If you've been close by before, the card shows how many times. To find more matches, add photos or a Timeline file in Settings, under Crossings.
Being in the same AOA venue room at the same time, at the same event, or taking photos within ~200 m of each other less than an hour apart. AOA venues you've both visited on different days show separately as shared places.
No. Photos never leave your phone, and we don't see or store them. The other person only sees the AOA venue name or the district and the date, and only after a mutual honk.
No. Before a mutual honk you both see only the number. Nobody works out where and when until you've both agreed to meet. In AOA Connect, until you've met.
The browser on Android doesn't get coordinates from photos: that's how Android limits access to where a photo was taken. So there you can add a Timeline file from Google Maps. Home and work are dropped from it right away.
Everyone sees the number of crossings. The list of places and dates opens with a Premium subscription for the person looking.
In Settings, under Crossings, with one switch. Then neither the number nor the places are counted in either direction. The same page has one button that deletes every point from photos and Timeline.
Maybe you've already met
Step into a venue room and see who's around. If you've crossed paths before, the card will tell you.