Signal protocol
The gold standard of encryption, reviewed by cryptographers worldwide. With the Double Ratchet every message uses a new key: even if someone stole one, they couldn't read earlier or later messages.
Messages, calls and stories end-to-end encrypted with the Signal protocol. No phone number, no email, no tracking. Not even we can read you.
End-to-end encryption
It's not a setting you have to turn on. Everything you send is encrypted on your phone before it leaves and only decrypted on the other person's. The keys never leave your device: not us, not your carrier, not anyone intercepting the connection can read you.
End-to-end encrypted:
The gold standard of encryption, reviewed by cryptographers worldwide. With the Double Ratchet every message uses a new key: even if someone stole one, they couldn't read earlier or later messages.
Key exchange (PQXDH) combines elliptic curves with ML-KEM (Kyber) post-quantum cryptography. What you send today stays safe even if quantum computers arrive tomorrow.
Not even the server knows who sent each message. It only delivers encrypted envelopes and deletes them as soon as they arrive.
Every call is encrypted twice: DTLS-SRTP plus end-to-end keys on every audio and video frame. And your IP stays hidden behind a relay server.
The server doesn't know which groups exist or who's in them: name, photo, members and messages are all encrypted.
Your chats are stored in an encrypted database (SQLCipher, AES-256) and the keys are protected by your phone's security chip: Secure Enclave on iPhone, Android Keystore.
The app only talks to our real server (TLS with certificate pinning). Nobody can impersonate it, not even on public Wi-Fi.
Your backups are encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a key derived from your 12 words. Without them, nobody can open them.
Every chat has a safety number and QR code to check you're talking to who you think. If their key changes, we warn you.
Features
Signal protocol with post-quantum keys. Messages, photos, voice notes and calls are only decrypted on the phones in the conversation.
Sign up with an anonymous ID and 12 words to recover your account. We never upload your contacts or ask for personal data.
The server doesn't know who is writing to whom: it only delivers encrypted envelopes and deletes them on arrival.
Encrypted, one-to-one and in groups, with your IP hidden behind our server so nobody knows where you are.
Robot, deep, high or anonymous, in calls and voice notes. Applied on your phone before encryption: the other side only hears the changed voice.
Chats that delete themselves, plus view-once photos, videos and voice notes that vanish after viewing.
24-hour photos and videos just for your contacts, with replies, emoji and who has seen them.
Chats hidden behind their own PIN, out of your chat list and notifications.
The app can look like a calculator and open only with your secret sum. Plus PIN or Face ID lock.
Content is hidden in screenshots, screen recordings and the app switcher.
Every contact has a safety code and QR. We let you know if someone changes phones.
Groups, reactions, replies, forwarding, pinning, polls, location, private notes, folders and more.
A closer look
Every feature
Security
Before it leaves, the message is encrypted with keys that only exist on your phone and the other person's.
The server gets a closed envelope: it can't see the content or the sender, and deletes it once delivered.
Only the other person's phone can open it. Not us, and nobody along the way.
Questions
Very soon, on the App Store (iPhone) and Google Play (Android). We're finishing the last details.
No. You sign up with an anonymous ID and share it yourself, by link or QR code, with whoever you want.
Yes. It uses the Signal protocol with post-quantum keys, encrypts each message with a different key, hides who sends each message, double-encrypts calls and keeps everything encrypted on your phone too. Our server never has the keys: even if asked, we couldn't read anything.
No. The keys only live on your phones. Our server only sees encrypted envelopes and deletes them on delivery.
With your 12 recovery words you get your account back on another phone. Keep them somewhere safe.
Spanish, English, French and German, on iPhone and Android.
Yes: encryp2ecso5fsyntgdozveinjjg7h2kijqkeppwlfng2c2q6y2iy4ad.onion. With Tor Browser you'll see ".onion available" in the address bar.
EncrypChat is coming to iPhone and Android. In the meantime, write to us with any questions.