Reality Registry
Check it yourself
Don't take our word for it. Take the file.
Reading a verification page means trusting our page. So here is a real sealed photo. Download it, put it through WhatsApp, and check it yourself — free, no account, and you control the file the whole way.
Yes, it's a leaking sprinkler on a suburban footpath. We would have preferred a collapsing bridge, but nothing newsworthy has happened within walking distance of the office, and staging one would rather defeat the purpose. The dull subject is arguably the point: nothing here is set up.
Three minutes
What to do.
Step two is the one that matters. Anyone can verify a file that hasn't been touched — the hard part is proving it after a messaging app has taken it apart and rebuilt it.
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Verify the original
Download the photo above, then drop it into the verifier. It should come back Verified — Original: byte-for-byte identical to what was sealed on 17 August.
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Now break it
Send that photo to yourself on WhatsApp, iMessage or Instagram, and save the copy that arrives. It is now a different file — recompressed, probably smaller, with the metadata stripped.
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Verify the wreckage
Upload that copy. It should come back Verified — Shared: not the original file any more, but it carries the same hidden identifier and still matches the sealed photograph's overall appearance — sealed at the same moment.
Reading the result
What the verdicts mean.
Authenticity isn't a yes or no. A photo can be genuine and heavily compressed, or genuine and cropped — so the answer says which.
Byte-for-byte identical to the sealed file. Nothing has touched it since capture.
Compressed or downscaled by a messaging app or social platform, but it carries the original's hidden identifier and matches its overall appearance. This is a pass, not a warning — it's what almost everything looks like by the time it reaches you. One limit: a small, local edit — a changed number, a swapped face — may not shift the overall appearance enough to be caught.
Cropped, rotated or letterboxed after capture. The underlying content still matches — but the framing you're looking at isn't the framing that was sealed.
The content itself has been altered, or parts of it are missing.
No watermark found. Usually it means the file was never sealed with Reality Registry — most photographs in the world haven't been. It is not an accusation.
Straight answer
Where you still have to trust us.
Nobody can move the time window — not you, and not us. The fingerprint is on a public blockchain, and the clocks it's pinned between belong to nobody here: no earlier than a public beacon whose value didn't exist before it was published, and no later than the Polygon block that recorded it. Both are public archives that will outlive this company, and anyone can check that part with no help from anybody. Photos get a second, independent floor from the Ethereum chain, because the app fetches it on the phone at the moment you shoot; video doesn't, and the verification page shows you which bounds it actually has rather than rounding up. What does still run through us is re-checking it: rebuilding the proof uses the registration record we hold.
Step 3 is different. Pulling the watermark out of a recompressed copy runs our extractor. It's the same maths every time and we don't get to choose the answer, but it is a dependency on Reality Registry continuing to exist. We'd rather you heard that from us than worked it out later.
One more, because people assume otherwise: this proves a file was sealed at a particular moment and hasn't changed since. It does not prove a camera was pointed at the real world. No phone can prove that today — not ours, not anyone's.
Convinced? The app is free to start.
Ten sealed captures a month, no charge. Checking a file someone sent you is always free and never asks you to make an account.