VybemoSafety, in plain words
An app where people rate outfit photos can turn unkind quickly if it is built carelessly. This page lists what Vybemo does about that, one rule at a time. It is written for anyone deciding whether to trust us, including parents, app store reviewers and reporters.
Scores are private. One word is public.
Every fit on Vybemo gets an average out of 10, fixed as its score 48 hours after posting. That number goes to the person who posted the fit and to nobody else. It sits on their own profile, next to how men and women rated the fit differently.
Everyone else sees one word. It is the word from the rating ladder that the average lands on, such as cute, strong or fire, and it shows only to people who have already rated the fit. Nobody gets publicly ranked a 3.
We did this because we have all read the replies under a post asking strangers to rate an outfit out of 10. A public number turns unkind quickly. A word tells people the fit was good without handing anyone a stick.
The score a poster seals before posting is more private still. It is never shown to anyone, at any point. How the sealed score works
What the poster sees
7.4
Sample average. Private to them.
What everyone else sees
heat
A word. No number, ever.
Rate the outfit, not the body
The thing being rated on Vybemo is a fit: the clothes, the colours, how it was put together. Every post can carry its brand, its category and the closet it belongs in, so it is plain what the subject is. On phones that support it, you can blur your face before posting, and the blur is done on the phone.
A rating is one number from 0 to 10, given with one gesture. The points system pays raters for landing near the crowd’s average, and in city battles near the score the poster sealed. Being far off earns the least, so there is nothing to gain from being harsh for fun.
Remarks about a person’s body, face, skin or weight have no place on Vybemo. The community guidelines say what is not allowed, and anything that crosses the line can be reported from inside the app.
City battles are rated blind
In the Arena, the part of the weekly city battles where fits are rated, three things are hidden: the handle, the city and the crowd word. The rater sees an outfit and nothing about who posted it or how it is doing.
That keeps follower counts and city loyalty out of the rating. It also means nobody can be singled out in a battle, because nobody knows whose fit they are rating. How city battles work
DMs have to be earned
Where is that block print shirt from? Been hunting for one in indigo.
- One message
- Text only
- Waits for you
A second message cannot be sent until you reply.
A chat on Vybemo opens between two people who follow each other. That is the normal way in, and it means both sides chose it.
Anyone else gets one request. It is text only: no photos, no links and no shared fits. It waits in a separate Requests list until you decide. Replying accepts it. Declining is silent. The sender is not told, cannot see whether you read it, and cannot send another.
To send a request at all, an account has to pass the trust rules. They look at how old the account is, whether it has a profile photo and whether it has posted at least one fit of its own. A blank account made five minutes ago cannot send a request to a stranger.
You choose who may send you requests: everyone, people you follow, or nobody. An invite to a group room from someone you are not connected to lands in Requests as well, so a group is never a way around the gate. Accounts that keep getting reported or declined lose the ability to send requests for a while.
Sharing a fit into a chat works in accepted chats only. It is never possible inside a request.
Seen, typing and online stay inside accepted chats
Read receipts, the typing indicator and online status exist only inside chats you have accepted. A stranger never sees them. Someone who sent you a request never sees them. Someone you blocked never sees them.
Online status is deliberately vague. It says Active now or Active today, and that is all it says.
There are two switches in your privacy settings: one for showing when you are online and one for read receipts. They are reciprocal. If you hide yours, you do not get to see other people’s.
Block and report, and what staff can see
You can block anyone on Vybemo. You can report a fit, a message, a whole chat or an account. When a report involves a chat, a snapshot of the recent messages is attached to it as evidence, so unsending a message afterwards does not erase what was said.
Staff never browse private chats. The only messages a moderator sees are the ones inside the evidence snapshot of a report that somebody filed.
One more thing you should know: chats on Vybemo are not end to end encrypted. We would rather say that plainly here than let anyone assume otherwise.
A map that does not follow you home
The style map shows which neighbourhoods are dressing well and what each city is wearing. It shows areas. It does not show where any person is.
- Neighbourhood level. A pin means Bandra West or Indiranagar. It does not mean a street, a building or a cafe.
- Opt in. Nothing of yours appears on the map unless you choose to put it there.
- Never live. The map does not show where anyone is right now.
- Never precise. There are no exact coordinates on it to find.
There is nothing to buy
There is no shop on Vybemo, no buy link, no affiliate link and no sponsored fit. The brand and size on a post are there because people always ask, and nobody earns a commission when you read them.
Points are a record of how accurately someone reads fits. They have no money value, and they cannot be bought or cashed out.
You sign in with your email and a password, and we confirm the email with a one time code when you sign up. Passwords are stored only as a hash, and several wrong tries in a row lock sign in for a short while.
Vybemo is for people aged 18 and over
You have to be 18 or older to use Vybemo, and setting up a profile asks for your date of birth. If you believe somebody under 18 is using the app, write to us so we can look into it.
Our child safety standards are published in full.
If something goes wrong
Inside the app
Block the account and report it. A report made from a chat carries its evidence snapshot with it.
By email
Write to hello@vybemo.com and say what happened. The contact page also lists the Grievance Officer, whose timelines are set by law.
Know the rules
The community guidelines say what is and is not allowed. The child safety standards cover the things we treat as most serious.
Built carefully, out now
If this is the kind of place you want to post a fit, get the app. Everything on this page is how it works from your first post.