Short videos, up to a minute, with a fair start

Reels are Asyncbit's short-video format: vertical videos up to 60 seconds long. You can record one straight from your browser or upload a clip you've already made, and you can post reels from the Android app too. Files can be MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 60 MB, with a caption of up to 2,000 characters.

A minute is a useful limit. It's long enough to show how you fixed a bike chain, cook a quick breakfast or play the chorus you've been practising, and short enough that people actually watch to the end. That matters, because how much of a reel people watch is one of the things that decides who sees it next.

Reels are ranked by completion rate, engagement and recency. Completion rate is how much of the video people watch; engagement is the likes, comments, saves and shares it gets; recency keeps the list fresh. New reels that don't have many views yet get a boost, so a first reel from a new account isn't competing on equal terms with one that has already been watched thousands of times. Nobody can pay to promote a reel — Asyncbit has no ads.

Reels sit under the same rules as every other post. They're always posted under your name — only confessions, Q&A questions and polls can be anonymous — and they fall under the community guidelines like everything else. Posting a reel earns 10 points by default, which counts toward your level and the leaderboards.