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About Keet
Keet sends messages, calls and files directly between participants instead of through a central server. Everything is end-to-end encrypted. No phone number or email is needed to start; your identity is secured with a 24-word seed phrase, and the app does not store personal information tied to your account.
Beyond one-to-one chats it offers audio and video calls built for large groups, public Rooms for meeting people with shared interests, and Broadcast Rooms where creators post to an audience that can react but not reply.
Strengths
- No phone number or email needed to sign up
- Messages, calls and files go directly between peers with end-to-end encryption
- Group video calls and broadcast rooms in the same app
Limitations
- Losing the 24-word seed phrase can mean losing access to your identity
- Peer-to-peer design depends on participants' devices rather than a server
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download and use.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Holepunch
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Private chats and group calls without handing a phone number or email to a service
- Categories
- Messaging
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Keet
Compare allSoftware that can replace Keet for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Jami
A fully peer-to-peer communication platform with no servers relaying your data and no personal information needed to sign up.
Jami is a GPL-3.0 GNU peer-to-peer platform with messaging, calls and screen sharing, but it has desktop builds only in the listing and relies on your own key backup.
Session
An encrypted messenger with no phone number and no account, routed through an onion network.
Session is open source, needs no phone number, and routes messages through an onion network and service nodes instead of direct peer connections.
SimpleX Chat
A messenger with no user identifiers at all, not even a random one, so there is no account to correlate.
SimpleX Chat is open source with no user identifier at all and relay servers you can self-host, across desktop, mobile and terminal.
qTox
A desktop client for the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol with chat, calls and file transfer.
qTox is an open-source desktop client for peer-to-peer Tox with chat, calls and file transfer, but offers no mobile apps in the listing.
Olvid
An end-to-end encrypted messenger that works without a phone number, email address or other personal data.
Olvid is an encrypted messenger needing no phone number or email on desktop and mobile, with unlimited file sharing, but its pricing is not stated.
Briar
Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Tor.
Briar is open-source peer-to-peer messaging over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Tor for Android and Linux, but lacks calls and is in maintenance mode.
Berty
An open-source peer-to-peer messenger that works without central servers and can operate offline.
Berty is an open-source peer-to-peer messenger for Android and iOS that can work offline, though developers say it is not yet ready for high-risk use.
Threema
Swiss encrypted messenger that works without a phone number or email.
Threema is a paid Swiss messenger with open-source apps and a random ID instead of a phone number, using servers rather than peer-to-peer delivery.
Keet as an alternative
Listings that name Keet as an alternative.
Quiet
A peer-to-peer team chat app that syncs messages between members' devices over Tor, with no server.
Keet provides peer-to-peer group chat, video calls and broadcast rooms with end-to-end encryption, but it is not open source.
RetroShare
A decentralized, encrypted friend-to-friend network for chat, mail, forums, channels and file sharing.
Keet provides peer-to-peer encrypted chat, calls and file transfers with iOS support, but it is not open source.
Status
A decentralised private messenger combined with a self-custodial crypto wallet and web3 browser.
Keet is a peer-to-peer messenger with calls and file transfers and no phone number, but it is not open source and depends on a seed phrase.
Similar software
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