Private messages
Talk one to one. Message anyone, one-on-one — Echo can't read it. If you set up recovery, that backup is only as strong as the recovery code and PIN that protect it.
It stays yours
Your conversations.Never ours to take.
The private messenger for iPhone and Android. No phone number, no email. Free to start.
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Free to start. An iPhone beta today; the App Store and Google Play at launch.
Why Echo exists
Why most messengers are free.
It's a fair question, and the answer is plainer than it looks. Messaging costs real money to run. Somebody pays for it. When it isn't you, the arrangement is something else.
01 — Someone pays
A free app still has bills
Servers, storage, engineers, support, a legal team. All of that costs the same whether you paid a penny or not. Free never meant free to make.
02 — So the product moves
The app stops being the business
What earns the money isn't the messaging. It's your attention, and a picture of you assembled from what can be watched — who you talk to, how often, where you are, what you're likely to want next. That picture is the thing with a price on it.
03 — And the incentive follows
It gets better at knowing you
Once a company earns by knowing you, every decision after that quietly leans the same way. Not because anyone set out to be sinister. Because that's what pays for the thing you're using.
So how is Echo free? People on Pro and Family pay for it. Nobody pays by being watched.
Being watched became the internet's default setting. We think that's backwards.
Somewhere along the way, "free" started to mean you're the product. Your conversations, mapped. Your relationships, indexed. Your private moments, quietly kept — just in case they're useful later.
Echo takes a different position. Privacy shouldn't be a promise a company can quietly change. It should be structural — the way the walls of your home are structural. Not a setting you switch on. Not a clause in a document. Just how the thing is built.
It stays yours
Three words carry the whole product.
What you say, who you say it to, the shape of your day — it all came out of you, and it stays yours. Not mined. Not sold. Not ours to take.
Yours to say
We never hold the words
What you write turns into a locked block before it leaves your device. What we store is that block. Echo can't read your one-on-one, family or group messages, and doesn't read your Sealed Chats. No setting turns this off, and none of it is for sale. What Echo can see is who you talk to and when: one Echo Key to another, not phone numbers, plus the names you chose. Never what you said. If you set up recovery, that backup is only as strong as the recovery code and PIN that protect it.
Yours to be
We never ask who you are
No email. No phone number. No password. You pick a name your friends see, and that's the whole sign-up.
Yours to keep
There's nothing to sell
You pay us, or you use the free tier. Either way you're the customer — there's no second business quietly running behind this one.
See what we see
Watch a message leave. Watch what we're left with.
Most apps ask you to trust their privacy policy. We'd rather let you watch. Two phones, a conversation, and everything the network keeps about it, side by side, as it happens. Nothing here is behind a sign-in, because we don't need to know who you are to show you this.
Maya · her phone
Message
Sam · his phone
Message
One conversation, two phones. Echo is on iPhone today. Android is coming, built the same way.
Everything the network keeps — the complete record, as it happens
- Nothing yet. Send a message and watch what lands here.
Four things per message, and not one of them is a word. The block on the right is the message itself, exactly as we store it. We can keep it and hand it to the right device, and for messages sent since 12 October 2026 (one-on-one) or 25 October 2026 (family chats and groups), we cannot turn it back into language. If you set up recovery, that backup is only as strong as the recovery code and PIN that protect it.
A simulation, running entirely in this page. Nothing is sent anywhere, and you
are never asked to sign in — we don't need to know who you are to show you this.
The claim, in one place
Echo can't read your one-on-one, family or group messages, and doesn't read your Sealed Chats. If you set up recovery, that backup is only as strong as the recovery code and PIN that protect it.
What Echo can see is who you talk to and when: one Echo Key to another, not phone numbers, plus the names you chose. Never what you said. Echo can also see the dates and times on your family calendar. We read the Support chat, because it's addressed to us, and if you report a message, your app sends us a readable copy of it so a person can review it.
The full details, with dates, are in our Privacy Policy →
Privacy you can't inspect is just a nicer promise. We'd rather be judged on how it's built than on what we say about it.
What we do know
Being straight about this is the point. Delivering a message means knowing a little, and pretending otherwise would be the dishonest version of this page.
- That one account sent something to another Two random keys, not phone numbers.
- The display names you chose The name on each account. It can be anything you like.
- When it was sent So messages arrive in the order you sent them.
- Roughly how big it was A short note and a photo are different sizes. That much is visible.
- The locked block itself Stored, moved, and handed over.
What we can't know
Not "won't." These aren't switches we chose to leave off — there's nothing on our side to switch.
- A word of your messages Since 12 October 2026 for one-on-one chats, and 25 October 2026 for family chats and groups, Echo can't turn the block back into words. If you set up recovery, that backup is only as strong as the recovery code and PIN that protect it.
- Your email, your phone number, your real name Never asked for, so never stored.
Family chats, groups and the family calendar got the same second lock on 25 October 2026, and so does every Sealed Chat set up since then. Anything older, we don't read.
Who can reach you
Nobody can add you to anything.
Think about how much of what arrives on a normal day you never asked for — the group you were dropped into, the stranger who somehow has your number, the message that was never meant for you personally. None of that can happen here, and not because we filter it well.
01 — Nothing to find
There is no address to leak
Echo never asks for a phone number or an email, and there is no directory to browse. The only way to reach you is a key or a link you handed to someone yourself.
02 — Nothing to intercept
A conversation takes two yeses
Someone can ask. Nothing arrives until you say yes — the message is refused outright, not filtered into a folder you'll never open. Decline, and that is the end of it.
03 — Nothing to be swept into
Groups work the same way
You get an invitation, and you are not in the room until you accept. Nobody can put you in a thread full of strangers, because nobody can put you anywhere.
The honest edge
If you post your Echo Key somewhere public, people can ask — that is the one door you can open yourself. They still cannot reach you until you accept, declining takes a tap, and you can hand out a link that expires instead. We would rather tell you where the edge is than pretend there isn't one.
Spam was never really a message problem. It's an address problem — and Echo never gave you one.
What you get
Everything a great messenger does. Built quietly, for you.
Familiar on the surface. Fundamentally different underneath.
Family Hub
A private place for the people you'd protect with your life — kept separate from everything else.
Sealed Chats
Put a one-on-one chat behind a passphrase you choose. It opens with your passphrase, and Echo doesn't have it. Forget it, and what's inside stays closed.
Vanish Mode
Say it, then let it go. Messages that quietly count down and dissolve — on your terms, on your device.
Group Chats
Everyone in one place, and nobody added without saying yes.
Your Echo Key
No email. No phone number. No password. You get a random key that's yours alone — a locker number, not a name tag.
Ghost Signal
No spinning wheels, no "last seen." A living wave on every message you send — it pulses as your words leave, settles when they arrive, and glows a calm cyan when they're read.
Sending a soft pulse
Sent on its way
Delivered it arrived
Read they opened it
Calls
Talk, too.Your calls stay yours.
Call one person, or bring a few people into the same call. Voice only, by choice: no camera to check, nothing to tidy behind you. Just the voices you'd ring anyway.
One to one
Call anyone in your contacts
Free on every plan.
Group calls
A few people, one call
Starting one takes Pro or Family. Everyone you invite joins free.
Calls are locked between phones, and Echo doesn't listen.
Like your messages, who calls whom and when isn't hidden from us.
Chambers
Pull up a chair.A live room for the people you invite.
A chamber is a live audio room. A few people talk and everyone else listens, like a panel or a family story night. It's live and then it's over: Echo doesn't record chambers, and there's no replay.
Stage
The host picks who speaks
Listeners raise a hand, and the host brings them up. Good for a talk, a Q&A or a big family announcement.
Open mic
Anyone invited can tap to talk
There are 6 mics to start, the host can open up to 10, and everyone starts muted. Good for a group that just wants to hang out. The host can switch modes while the room is live.
- Listen free · host with Pro or Family. Anyone can listen when they're invited. Speaking on Stage and hosting come with Pro or Echo Family. In Open mic, the host's plan covers the people they invite.
- By invitation. You get into a chamber when the host invites you, or when it's opened in a group or family you're in. There are no public rooms and nothing to browse.
- Live, then gone. Echo doesn't record chambers. When the host ends it, it's over. Anyone can report or block someone from inside the room.
What we can see
What Echo can see is who you talk to and when: one Echo Key to another, not phone numbers, plus the names you chose. Never what you said. For calls and chambers: who called whom, when, for how long, and who was in the room. For messages: which groups you're in, when each message was sent, how big it was and whether it was read, plus family-calendar dates and times. We read the Support chat, and we get a readable copy of any message you report.
On iPhone at launch. Chambers comes to Android when Echo launches on Android.
Plans
You're the customer.
Never the inventory. A few dollars a month, from people who want the thing, pays for the thing. That's the whole business — there is no second one running quietly behind it. Echo is also free to start, and that's paid for the ordinary way: by the people on Pro and Family.
Privacy isn't a paid extra
On every plan, including Free, every message, photo and voice note is encrypted on your phone before it's sent, and Echo doesn't read your messages. You can delete any chat, or your whole account, whenever you want. Paid plans add more tools. They never add more privacy.
Free
Free
Everything that makes Echo Echo. No time limit, no ads.
Messaging
- Message anyone, one-on-one — Echo can't read it†
- Photos and voice notes
- Start group chats with up to 8 peopleAnd join bigger groups someone else started.
Calls
- One-to-one calls
- Join any group call you're invited to
Chambers
- Listen in any chamber you're invited to
- Talk in an Open mic chamber you're invited toThe host's plan covers you.
Privacy tools
- Vanish: messages disappear from your phone after 15 or 30 seconds
- Delete any chat, or your whole account
Family Hub
- Join a Family Hub free when a Family admin gives you a seat
Looks
- Dark and Light themes
Pro
$7.99/month
For one person who wants the full set.
- Everything in Free, plus
- Group chats with up to 100 people
Calls
- Start group calls with up to 32 peopleEveryone you invite joins free.
Chambers
- Speak on Stage in any chamber you're in
- Host your own chambers*Generous daily hosting, with a fair-use limit. Stage or Open mic, up to 100 listeners. Open mic starts with 6 mics, and you can open up to 10.
Privacy tools
- Vanish for 1 or 5 minutes
- Mutual Vanish: when the timer ends, the message is gone from both devices
- Sealed Chats: a chat that opens only with a passphrase you choose. Echo never has it.
- Clear your whole message history at onceFrom this phone and your Echo account's history. The people you talked to keep their copies.
Family Hub
- Create and run your own Family HubRoles, parental controls, quiet hours and a family calendar. Each person needs their own plan. Covering people who don't pay is what Echo Family is for.
Looks
- Every theme, including Midnight, Aurora and Ghost
Best for families
Echo Family
$29.99/month
You + 5 people · add up to 4 more people, for a higher monthly price shown in the app You plus 5 people. The people you add pay nothing.
- Everyone you cover gets
- Everything in Pro, on their own phone
- Start group calls
- Host chambers*Your family shares one generous daily hosting allowance.
Family Hub
- Parental controls, quiet hours and a private family calendar
- Separate family chats, with roles for Admin, Member and Child
- Children can only join chambers hosted by their own family
Seats
- You plus 5 people included
- Add seats for up to 10 people in totalAnyone beyond that can still join your Family Hub on a plan of their own.
* Hosting chambers has a daily fair-use limit. Bigger rooms with more open mics use it faster. On Echo Family, everyone you cover shares one daily allowance. If you get close, Echo tells you, and you'll have 15 minutes to wrap up.
† If you set up recovery, that backup is only as strong as the recovery code and PIN that protect it.
Prices are in US dollars for the US App Store, before any sales tax. Elsewhere, the store sets the price in your currency. Your exact price is shown in the app before you pay.
Echo is sold through the App Store. Plans aren't on sale in Google Play yet.
Plans renew automatically until you cancel. Cancel anytime in your App Store subscription settings. No free trial: Free is yours for as long as you like.
No ads. Ever. And no AI reads your messages.
Questions
The short answers.
How private is Echo?
Echo cannot read one-on-one messages sent since 12 October 2026, or family chats, groups and family calendar entries sent since 25 October 2026, or Sealed Chats first set up since 25 October 2026. Anything older is encrypted too, and Echo doesn't read it — that part still rests on our promise not to change our own code. Calls are locked between phones, and Echo doesn't listen. What Echo can see is who you talk to and when: one Echo Key to another, not phone numbers, plus the names you chose. Never what you said. Echo can also see the dates and times on your family calendar. If you set up recovery, that backup is only as strong as the recovery code and PIN that protect it. "See what we see," above, shows all of it.
Does my family need Echo too?
Yes — each person needs Echo on their own phone. They download it and tap your link. Setup takes under a minute, and there's no email or phone number to dig up.
How do I invite someone?
Share your Echo Link. One tap connects you — no phone number or email needed.
Is it on Android, or my computer?
Echo is for iPhone and Android, and both are built the same way. There's no computer version yet.
What if I lose my phone?
You set up a recovery code and a PIN when you join. Keep them somewhere safe. Echo never sees your PIN, so we can't reset it for you, and your backup is only as strong as your PIN.
Can I cancel any time?
Any time. Plans are sold through the App Store, so cancel in your Apple Account's subscriptions. You keep your plan through the period you've paid for.
What does it cost?
Echo is free to start, with no time limit. Pro is $7.99 a month. Echo Family is $29.99 a month for you and 5 people, and you can add up to 4 more people for a higher monthly price shown in the app. Those are US prices before any sales tax; your price, in your currency, is shown in the app before you pay. Plans renew every month until you cancel in your App Store settings. There's no free trial.
How does Echo make money?
From people paying for Pro and Family. That's the entire business. There's no advertising arm, and what we can see about you isn't for sale.
A quieter place to talk.
No phone number, no email. Pick a name, and you're in.
Get Echo →
On a computer? Scan with your phone's camera.
Free to start. An iPhone beta today; the App Store and Google Play at launch.