Connect with someone
Share a link, scan a code, or meet in person. No phone number or email address required.
In development
Private messaging that keeps working.
Chat with the people you care about, whether you are online, nearby, or completely off-grid. No phone number. No tracking. No company reading over your shoulder.
Not another app-store promise. Komms is being built in public. Everyday downloads are not ready yet.
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⌁ End-to-end encrypted
Today
Delivered nearby
No internet needed
No internet needed
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No phone number
Your identity belongs to you.
No central server
There is no single off switch.
Open to everyone
The code is public and free.
Simple on the outside
It feels like messaging.
It works almost anywhere.
You should not need to understand networks or encryption. Komms handles the complicated part in the background.
Message like normal
Send private messages and share with groups in an app made to feel familiar from day one.
Komms finds a way
Online or off, Komms chooses an available route. Your conversation stays the same.
The launch app
A full messenger.
Not a protocol demo.
The goal is everything you rely on in a modern private messenger, rebuilt for direct connections and unreliable networks.
Launch target Next up
Launch target
Conversations that feel complete
Text, replies, reactions, editing, formatting, voice notes, delivery states, read receipts, and typing indicators.
Launch target
Photos, video, and files
Share media, documents, and view-once moments. Large files wait for Wi-Fi or internet instead of flooding a radio mesh.
Launch target
Private groups
Group chats, mentions, replies, polls, roles, admin controls, and private invites without exposing membership.
Next up
Private voice and video calls
Encrypted calls over internet and local Wi-Fi, with an honest explanation when a radio-only connection cannot carry live media.
Launch + next
Your chats, on your devices
Native mobile and desktop apps, nearby device linking, secure transfer, and mnemonic-protected local backups.
Launch + next
Privacy controls you choose
Disappearing messages, view-once media, screen lock, safety-number verification, blocking, and key-change warnings.
And all the useful little things
See the honest feature scope
Search · pins · folders · muted chats · archive · scheduled messages · note to self · themes · dark mode · custom icons
Different on purpose
No public feed, no cloud account, and no pretending a 1,000-person video group can work over LoRa. Komms keeps the familiar messenger experience and changes the parts that require a central service.
Made for real life
Stay in touch when life gets patchy.
Most days, the internet works. Sometimes it does not. Komms is being designed for both.
Bad signal
Keep a group chat moving at a festival, on a train, or anywhere the network is crowded.
Internet outage
Reach family and neighbours through local connections when home internet goes down.
Far off-grid
Pair Komms with affordable radios to send messages over long distances without cell service.
One conversation, many routes
You keep talking.
Komms keeps trying.
A regular messenger usually needs its company's servers. Komms is designed to move the same sealed message through whatever is available.
Go under the hood⌁ Same sealed message
Private by design
Your conversations belong to the people in them.
Komms is designed without an account provider sitting in the middle. That means less information to collect, scan, sell, leak, or switch off.
What Komms can and cannot protect- ✓Messages are locked on your device
Only the intended people hold the keys to read them.
- ✓Your history stays with you
It is stored locally, encrypted, exportable, and truly deletable.
- ✓Anyone can inspect the code
Komms is open source and designed to stay that way.
An honest status update
Promising, working, and not ready for everyone yet.
The core technology, internet transport, encrypted storage, and an early desktop app already run from source. Friendly installers, mobile apps, and an independent security audit are still ahead.
Follow the roadmapGood questions
The short, honest answers.
What exactly is Komms?
Komms is a private, open-source messaging app in development. It is designed to let devices communicate directly, so your conversations do not depend on one company or one central server.
Can I download it today?
Not yet. The core technology and an early desktop app already run from source, but easy installers for everyday users are still being built. Developers can follow and run the project on GitHub.
Does it really work without the internet?
That is one of the main goals. The same private message is designed to travel over the internet, a nearby connection, an affordable radio, or even an encrypted file carried by a person.
Is it safe for high-risk situations?
Not today. Komms is still in development and has not completed an independent security audit. It should not yet be relied on by people in high-risk situations.
Who owns Komms?
Komms is an open-source project. Its public license means anyone can inspect it, improve it, or build on it, and public versions must keep their source open too.
Will it have the features I already use?
That is the product goal: rich private messages, groups, media and files, voice notes, calls, disappearing messages, linked devices, backups, and familiar chat organization. Some features need to wait for a faster connection, and features that fundamentally require a central service are intentionally different.
Ready for the technical version? See how Komms works, or open the complete documentation.
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