about

Where short videos become conversations.

Tubaar is a short-video social platform built around discovery, participation and community. One video creates a Pulse. People respond with Echoes. Those Echoes build Scenes.

A creator crew reviewing footage on a Kinshasa rooftop at blue hour
Kinshasa, blue hour
the story

Tubaar grows from the experience and technology behind Ontryst, a social app that helps people discover and connect with the people around them. Building Ontryst taught us something simple: the big platforms were never designed around where people actually live. Our languages came last, our cities were an afterthought, our culture got flattened into a hashtag.

Tubaar takes that local-social idea into video. Where Ontryst begins with people nearby, Tubaar begins with content and creators nearby — expression, entertainment, creativity and community, starting in the places global platforms underserve.

It is African-first without being limited to Africa. Creators, music, humour, dance, fashion, languages and daily life from Kinshasa, Lagos and Abidjan shape its early identity. The platform itself stays open to the world — and worldwide Scenes connect anyone who cares about the same thing, wherever they are.

PulseThe feed. Two ways to watch: a card with context, or edge-to-edge full screen. For You, Nearby, Following.
EchoA video answer tied to the video it answers. Reaction, remix, continuation, correction — always credited, always in the chain.
ScenesCommunities around an interest, a place or a moment, with prompts, challenges, a chat and moderators.
what we believe

Six things we won't trade away.

01Around you firstDiscovery starts with your city and your culture, then opens to the world. Local is a feature, not a fallback.
02Conversations, not repostsAn Echo keeps the original creator in the frame. Credit is automatic and chains stay visible.
03Communities with structureA Scene has prompts, challenges, a chat and moderators — a place to belong, not just a hashtag.
04Familiar, but oursInstantly understandable, clearly different. The structure is the differentiator, not the colour palette.
05Safe from day oneReporting, blocking, comment filters, message requests, teen protections, reasons and appeals — built before growth, not after.
06Light on dataBuilt for the networks people actually have. A data-saver mode is a first-class setting, not an afterthought.
the company

Made by Nevolut.

Tubaar is built and operated by Nevolut S.A.R.L.U., headquartered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, together with its European Union branch Nevolut S.R.L. in Romania. The team works from Kinshasa and Bucharest.

Tubaar and Ontryst share one account system and one company. One sign-in works in both apps; what you do in each stays in that app unless you choose to publish to both.

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