Portable identity
An identity that travels with you across platforms, instead of being locked into one.
Your LinkedIn verified badge stays on LinkedIn. Your Tinder photo verification stays on Tinder. Your OLX KYC stays on OLX. Each one proves something useful, but the proof doesn't travel.
Portable identity is verification that lives in one place and is visible everywhere — Instagram bio, packaging tape, email signature, dating-app DM, QR code on a business card. Anyone can land on it from anywhere. The verification doesn't reset every time you change platforms.
Trust trail
The chronological list of what you've actually done — verifications, transactions, reviews — instead of a compressed score.
Reputation is usually shown as a single number (4.7 stars, Elite tier, etc.). Compression loses information. The trust trail is the un-compressed version — newest-first list of rows, each carrying one fact: "Confirmed order with Anya Sharma — 2 days ago," "Government ID verified — 3 weeks ago."
The trail's value comes from its honesty. New profiles start short. Three real transactions later it means something. Thirty later it means a lot. There's no shortcut — which is the feature.
See: The trust trail — why every interaction is one calm row.
Verified Human
A reputation tier for users who have completed a selfie verification (proving a real human is behind the account).
The minimum Realr badge that says "a real person is here." Requires a liveness selfie check — confirms someone alive is holding the device, not a bot or automated account.
Useful for: low-stakes interactions where the buyer needs to know there's a person on the other end. Combined with other verifications (gov ID, phone), it becomes much stronger.
Identity Verified
The strongest single Realr badge — government ID checked against a live selfie. Privacy-preserving: the document is never publicly shown.
Government ID (passport, Aadhaar, driver's license, etc.) uploaded once, verified by review, badge issued. Cross-checks the document against a live selfie so the person on the ID and the person holding the phone are the same human.
The document itself is encrypted and never publicly visible. Only the badge appears on your profile — viewers see "Identity Verified," not your Aadhaar number.
See: Identity verification 101 — what each badge actually proves.
Couple Verified
Two independent Realr accounts that have mutually confirmed they're in a relationship. Either party can revoke at any time.
Both partners actively accept the couple link. Both can revoke at any time. The badge appears on both profiles while linked.
What it proves: a social claim of relationship, with mutual consent on both sides. What it doesn't prove: legal status (marriage, civil union), duration, anything about finances or living arrangements.
Useful for: couples sharing trust together — joint accounts, co-hosting, joint creator businesses, long-distance relationships sharing one trust profile. The privacy guard means neither partner's private data leaks to the other.
QR verify
The act of scanning a Realr QR code to land on someone's trust profile — a short, calm moment that takes a stranger from suspicion to confidence.
The QR is the offline-to-online handshake. Print it on packaging, a business card, a window sticker, a poster. When a stranger scans it, they land on the seller's full trust profile — verified identity, real review trail, real interaction history. Three seconds to a trust decision.
QR-only fields (extra contact info, private bios) only appear when the visitor came via QR — not when they typed the URL directly. Lets sellers reward in-person scans with a slightly richer profile.
Trust handshake
The brief moment when two parties verify each other's identity before transacting — replaces the back-and-forth of asking for proof.
Two strangers in a DM, both about to transact, both quietly doing background work on the other. The trust handshake collapses that into 5 seconds: each side sends their Realr link, both verify in a tap, conversation moves to logistics.
The phrasing that works in real conversations: "happy to send mine first" — flips the ask from interrogation to reciprocity.
Accountability cost
How expensive it would be for a scammer to fake the trust signals on a profile — the only honest measure of how strong those signals are.
Trust isn't about being impossible to scam — it's about being more expensive to scam than the upside. Every verification raises the accountability cost of running a fake account.
Single phone verification: ~₹50 (burner SIM). Email verification: ~₹0 (throwaway address). Government ID verification + face match: ~₹2,000+ in document forgery plus risk of legal exposure. Each layer adds independent cost.
See: The accountability cost of a scam, and how to raise it.
Real review
A review that proves four things: the transaction happened, the buyer wrote it, the buyer was the actual buyer, and the tone is honest.
Most reviews you see online are decorative — five stars with no proof of an underlying transaction. A real review is attached to an order that completed in the product, written by the verified buyer of that order, with their attribution visible.
Realr reviews are surface every review (not just the five-star ones), don't let sellers delete bad reviews, and never aggregate ratings into a number that buries specifics.
Repeat buyer
A buyer who has completed multiple transactions with the same seller. The strongest single trust signal Realr tracks.
Buyers who came back are telling you the seller doesn't burn customers. It's the single loudest signal in any service business, and almost no one shows it. Realr tracks repeat-buyer rate and surfaces it on the public profile.
Why it matters: hard to fake at scale. You'd need to run repeated real transactions with real verified buyers, which would itself be evidence the business is real.
Visibility tier
Per-field privacy setting on your Realr — Public, QR-only, Connections, or Private. Lets you publish a profile without leaking sensitive data.
Every field on your profile has its own visibility setting:
- Public — visible to anyone who lands on your profile
- QR-only — visible only when the visitor arrived via a Realr QR scan
- Connections — visible only to people you've completed a transaction with
- Private — never shown publicly; lives only in your own /me view
Sensitive verification data (phone numbers, ID document contents) is always Private by default. Only the verification badge itself surfaces publicly.
Trust tier
A reputation level that emerges from your trust trail. Five levels: Verified Human → Trusted → Established → Highly Trusted → Elite.
Tiers are not bought, gamed, or self-set. They emerge from the underlying signal — number of completed transactions, repeat-buyer rate, dispute ratio, on-time delivery, verification depth. A higher tier means more independent evidence has accumulated, not that someone paid for a badge.
New profiles start at the lowest tier. Climbing happens one real interaction at a time. There's no shortcut.
Trust card
A shareable visual summary of your Realr — handle, top verifications, key reputation stats. Optimized for sharing in DMs, story posts, and chat bubbles.
The compact one-card version of your profile. Used inside the app's share sheet, downloadable as PNG, formatted 9:16 for story posts. Designed so a screenshot of a Realr is immediately recognizable to anyone who sees it.
Different from the full profile at realr.me/handle: the trust card is a snapshot for visual sharing; the profile is the canonical destination.
Verify widget
An embeddable badge sellers add to their own website — proves the visitor is on a real, verified business without leaving the site.
A small JavaScript snippet that renders a verified badge on any third-party site. Lets sellers prove "verified on Realr" directly on their own website without sending visitors away. Clicking the badge opens the full Realr profile in a new tab.
Available on Trust Lite and Pro plans. See pricing.
The 3-second test
A buyer should be able to decide whether to trust a profile in 3 seconds. Every Realr profile is designed against this constraint.
The frame Realr uses to design every public surface. Trust decisions in a DM, on a marketplace listing, or after a QR scan happen in seconds, not minutes. If the visitor needs more than 3 seconds to figure out whether they should proceed, the design has failed.
What earns 3 seconds: avatar + verified badge + tier label + one stat. The full trust trail is one scroll away if they want more, but the verdict happens at the top.