Published October 4, 2026
What Is the Divine App? The Vine Reboot Explained
Divine (diVine) is the app bringing back Vine-style six-second looping videos. It launched publicly in 2026, built by Evan Henshaw-Plath ("Rabble," an early Twitter engineer) and funded by Jack Dorsey's nonprofit "and Other Stuff."
The basics
Every video is a six-second loop — the format that made Vine a cultural phenomenon before Twitter shut it down in 2017. Divine ships with a huge archive of restored classic Vines (hundreds of thousands to millions of clips, rebuilt from archives with likes, views, and comments where recoverable), and original Vine creators reclaimed their profiles to post new loops.
What makes it different
Three things: a strict ban on AI-generated content (human-made only, enforced through in-app capture and provenance standards), decentralized identity via Nostr (your followers aren't trapped on company servers), and a public benefit corporation structure with no equity for Dorsey. It's also open source.
How to get it
Free on the App Store and Google Play, plus the Zapstore. Details on our download page. Curious how it stacks up against the original? See Divine vs Vine.