Quit Big Tech. Never look back.
Whether it's for an organization, a community, or a group chat with friends, Quiet lets you control all your data without running your own servers.
Downloads
Quiet is available for all major platforms. (And eventually the web, too!)
⚠ Quiet is in beta and shouldn't be used for activities requiring security.
How it works:
While apps like Slack, Discord, and Signal use central servers, Quiet syncs messages directly between a team’s devices, over Tor, with no server required.
Technical overview
Control your own data
Quiet stores your community's data only on your community's phones and laptops, so it's always under your control.
No server required
Quiet gives you a peer-to-peer network that just works, so you can be independent and private without running your own server.
The privacy of Tor, built in.
Even encrypted messaging apps like Signal can leak your phone number, who you talk to, your IP addresses, and your location. Quiet builds in the Tor privacy tool to protect that data behind a global network of volunteer relays.
Slackier than Signal
Quiet is more like Slack or Discord than Signal. Create your private space and invite people to join, with channels for different kinds of conversation.
*Avatars & DMs coming soon!
Our Mission
We are building Quiet to sharpen the tools open societies use to hold power accountable. The software everyone uses for work and sharing ideas has grown too dependent on company-run infrastructure, undermining free software's power to hold Big Tech accountable, distorting humanity's collective expression, and limiting bottom-up power. Our mission is to fix this, by building a Slack alternative that makes no compromises on safety or freedom.
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Roadmap
Quiet's peer-to-peer design makes it very different from most messaging apps, but that doesn't mean it can't have all the features that make online life fun, comfortable, and productive!
What's done & what's next
Team chat
Create a “community” for your team or organization and invite members.
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No email or phone number required
Unlike Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal, no email or phone number is required to create or join a community.
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End-to-end encryption
All data is encrypted end-to-end between member devices, using Tor.
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Channels
Organize chats in Slack-like channels, so conversations don't get messy.
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Images
Send and receive images, with copy/paste, drag & drop, and image previews.
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Notifications
Get desktop notifications for new messages, with optional sounds.
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Files
Send and receive files of unlimited size!
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Invite links
Share invite links, just like in WhatsApp, Signal, or Discord.
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Keyboard controls
Navigate and generally do stuff without using the mouse.
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Desktop apps
Quiet has apps for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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Android
Quiet works on Android, and F-Droid support is on the way.
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iPhone
Our iPhone app is available via TestFlight.
iOS notifications
Get notifications in our iPhone app. Apple requires some centralization for this.
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Multiple communities
Join multiple communities, like you would in Slack or Discord.
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Direct messages
Send and receive direct messages that are encrypted to the recipient and unreadable by other community members.
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User profiles
Add an avatar or bio.
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Mentions
Send @ mentions that notify other users.
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Removal
Remove users from your community.
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Message deletion
Delete individual messages and set timed deletion rules (“disappearing messages”) for the community.
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Status
See your own connection status and the online status of other users.
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Emojis & Reactions
Send emojis with emojicodes, and react with emojis.
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Account recovery
Recover owner accounts from a backup phrase.
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Private channels
Create private channels with multiple members that are unreadable to the community at large.
Quiet makes security, privacy and freedom convenient
Quiet gives communities more control over their software, data, and metadata than almost any privacy tool (even Signal!) while remaining easy to use.
Threat model
Breaches, never
Server breaches, where everyone's most private conversations spill out onto the public Internet forever, are a nightmare for any team. Quiet simply doesn't have servers. No servers, no breaches.
No phone numbers
Phone numbers should be private. While Signal and WhatsApp demand a phone number and expose it to everyone you talk to and whoever might access their phone, Quiet never even asks for a phone number.
Better location privacy
Signal and nearly every other messaging app expose your identity's IP address to a server, revealing your location. Quiet doesn't, and this matters! Location data can be used to harm you in surprising ways.
More than just encryption
Apps like Signal & WhatsApp do encrypt messages, but they still leak metadata, such as who you talk to and when, to whoever runs the server. Quiet uses Tor to protect that too.
Open source
Unlike Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, and the rest, Quiet is completely open source. This means there is no vendor lock-in. Developers can fork Quiet and create interoperable versions.
We make it look easy
Creating the same great group chat experience of Slack or Discord on a peer-to-peer network built on Tor is super hard. But Quiet works well, both on laptops and phones.
Contributing
Quiet welcomes outside contributions! If you’d like to work on Quiet with us, see Contributing to Quiet for information on how to get started.