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Messages, photos, files and voice notes are encrypted on your phone. Only the devices in the chat can read them.
New · v1.2.0Vero Messenger
Your conversations stay yours.
A private messenger for chats, calls, groups and more. Every message and photo is encrypted before it leaves your phone — and the keys that unlock them never leave your device.
Private voice & video calls
One-to-one and group calls are end-to-end encrypted too.
Safety numbers
Compare a number in person to make sure nobody swapped a key in the middle.
Phone and desktop, in sync
Link a computer by scanning a QR code. Every device gets its own keys.
Encrypted backups
Unlock your backup with a passphrase, a recovery key — or both. Move chats to a new phone.
Disappearing messages
Set a timer per chat, or a default for every new chat you start.
Groups & communities
Every member’s devices get their own key slot. Communities bring related groups together.
Channels, stories & bots
Broadcast to followers, share stories with chosen people, or build a bot or mini-app.
On your computer, too.
Open Vero in any modern browser, scan the QR code with your phone, and the computer gets its own keys and your recent chats. You can see and unlink every device from Settings.
Install it like an app from your browser, or grab the Android app — installed apps check for new versions and update themselves.
How it stays private
What’s protected — and what isn’t yet.
Vero tells you plainly what its servers can see. We think that honesty is part of privacy.
Only your devices can read
- Messages, photos, videos, files and voice notes
- Voice and video calls
- Group messages and community announcements
- Your backups (passphrase or recovery key)
- Your private keys — kept in each device’s secure keystore
Vero’s servers can see
- Who talks to whom, and when
- Group and community names, descriptions and member lists
- Profile details like your name and username
- Channel posts — channels are public broadcasts, not end-to-end encrypted
- Messages you send to a bot can be read by the bot’s owner
Finding friends by phone number is opt-in; lookups use hashes and are rate-limited.
How a message travels
Scrambled on your phone. Unscrambled on theirs.
In between, Vero’s servers only ever handle ciphertext.
01 · Your phone
“See you at 7?”
Encrypted with keys kept in your phone’s secure keystore.
02 · Vero servers
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Deliver it, but can’t read it. They do see who it’s for, and when.
03 · Their phone
“See you at 7?”
Decrypted on their device — and on each of their linked devices.
Vero, screen by screen
38 screens in the web app, grouped by what they do.
View as table
| Area | Screens |
|---|---|
| Linked devices & backup | 9 |
| Chats & groups | 8 |
| Communities & channels | 6 |
| Stories | 4 |
| Privacy & safety | 4 |
| Bots | 2 |
| Profiles | 2 |
| Calls | 1 |
| Payments | 1 |
| App updates | 1 |
Source: Vero’s public route map at atherhost.online/_sitemap
Built on proven pieces
- libsodium for the cryptography — X25519 key exchange, XChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption and Ed25519 signatures
- Safety numbers derived with iterated BLAKE2b from every device’s public identity key
- Row-level security and private realtime channels, so data is only reachable by conversation members
- One app, everywhere — the same codebase runs on Android and in your browser
From Vero’s source and its in-app “How it stays private” notes.
Read the story — and the docs.
Why we built Vero, how it works in plain English, and a complete guide to every feature.