No email · No phone · No legal name
A map of the walls,
built to outlive
the buff.
BUFFMAP is a living, community-built archive of street art — what's up, what got buffed, and who made it. Logged anonymously by the people who actually stand in front of the wall.
● UP · legal wall, exact pin
● BUFFED · 3 confirms
The thesis
Made to be
destroyed.
Street art is the only major art form that's designed to be erased. A piece lives for weeks, and when it goes, it goes completely — no archive, no provenance, no record it was ever on that wall.
BUFFMAP is the archive. Not a gallery. Not a real-estate app for empty walls. A record — built and verified by the people who actually walk the block.
The record of erasure is the product.
Buffed pieces never disappear from the map. They render as gray patches in a history nobody else is keeping. The wall changes hands. The archive doesn't forget.
How it works
Four steps.
No account required to look.
Spot it
Open the map, browse anonymously — no account, no login wall. Filter by style, status, distance, or artist.
Shoot it
Photos are stripped of EXIF and re-encoded on your device before anything touches the network. Faces and plates get a one-tap blur.
Place it — carefully
Exact pin, this block, this neighborhood, or off the map entirely. You choose the precision, per post, every time.
Track what happens to it
Still up, buffed, capped, damaged — status flips only after two independent confirmations. The old photo moves into the wall's timeline. Nothing gets deleted.
Reading the map
Every pin tells you what's still there.
Up
Confirmed on the wall within the last reporting window.
Capped
Gone over by another writer. Layered into the wall's history.
Buffed
Painted out or removed. Stays on the map — grayed, not gone.
Damaged
Weathered, tagged over, or partially destroyed.
Privacy is the product
We're asking people to geotag crime scenes.
A photo that's a portfolio piece for one writer is evidence for another. Every default here is built for the person with the most to lose — not the person with the least.
Zero email, zero phone, zero legal name. A handle and a passphrase — that's the whole account.
EXIF stripped on-device, then re-stripped on our end. The metadata never leaves in the first place.
Four levels of location precision — exact pin, this block, this neighborhood, or don't map it at all.
Delayed posting, up to 90 days, so a fresh piece can't be used to place you at a fresh wall.
Unmap on request — honored within 24 hours, no argument, no appeal process to slow it down.
Who it's for
One app. Opposite needs.
Same map.
Mara plans her Saturday around it.
Four thousand photos of murals on a phone she never organizes. Opens the map in a new city, has a three-hour route in under two minutes.
Paints illegally. Won't give up a phone number for anyone.
Documents everything, posts almost none of it. Wants to verify — visibly, in the app — that nothing identifying ever left the device.
Devon Rusk paints legally and invoices clients.
Needs verified attribution pinned to a real address — a lead pipeline that isn't a platform he hates.
Priya wants the five-year history of one wall.
Status, dates, layers, exports. The timeline is the whole point — what was here before this was here.
Get in
Start archiving before
the next buff.
BUFFMAP is in closed beta — San Diego, TestFlight and Play internal testing. No public app-store listing yet. Request access and we'll follow up as new cities open.
Browsing inside the app never requires an email or phone. A beta request is the only place either might come up — and it's optional.