Most encrypted apps protect a conversation with one key. Break it once and the entire history opens.
Vault uses a double ratchet: every single message gets its own key, derived fresh and thrown away.
So if an attacker somehow captures the key for message 42, they get message 42. Not 41. Not 43. The chain only moves forward, and it never reuses a link.
Then the whole thread deletes itself in 24 hours anyway.
Forward secrecy isn't a feature you notice. It's the one that saves you quietly.
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Every credential breach in the news has one thing in common: the company had credentials.
Vault doesn't. No password, no email, no security question, no phone number. There's no sign-in screen at all — you open the app and start talking.
Which means no password to reuse, no SIM to swap, no recovery flow to social-engineer, and no account anyone can lock you out of.
The cheapest way to survive a credential leak is to never hold one.
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Every call in Vault is relayed. On purpose.
A direct connection is faster, and it hands your IP address to whoever picked up. Most apps take that trade silently. Ring someone once and they know roughly where you are.
So we route every call through a relay instead. The person you're calling never sees your address, and the relay only carries encrypted media it can't decrypt — keys stay on the two devices.
Slightly more work for us. One less thing leaking from you.
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Here's the part most apps won't put in writing: which half of their product they can actually read.
Vault has two halves, and we'll draw the line for you.
Chats and calls are end-to-end encrypted with a double ratchet. Keys never leave your device. We cannot read them — not if asked, not if ordered, not if we wanted to.
Thoughts is a public feed. Anyone can read it, which means the server can too. It is not encrypted, and the app tells you that every single time you post.
That second paragraph is the one nobody writes. Most platforms would rather let "we take privacy seriously" cover both halves and hope you never ask which is which.
A feed pretending to be private would undermine the half that actually is.
No phone number, no email, no account. Everything expires in 24 hours.
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Every social platform is a permanent record you didn't agree to keep.
A post from 2014 isn't a thought anymore. It's evidence. And knowing that changes what people are willing to say out loud — usually into something safer, blander and less true.
Thoughts is a public feed with a 24-hour clock. Post it, argue about it, follow people worth reading. By tomorrow none of it exists.
Not a delete button you have to remember to press. An expiry date on everything, by default.
Live now on web and Android.
What would you post if it couldn't be screenshotted into your obituary?
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Nobody writes honestly on a platform that keeps receipts.
That's not a moderation problem. It's a memory problem. Every post you've ever made is still sitting there, ready to be quoted back to you in nine years by someone who wasn't in the room.
So we built Thoughts: a public feed on a 24-hour clock.
Post something, follow people worth reading, argue with strangers — and by tomorrow all of it is gone. Nothing accumulates into a permanent record of who you used to be.
One thing we say out loud: Thoughts is the half of Vault the server can read. That's what makes it public, and the app tells you so every time you post. A feed pretending to be encrypted would undermine the half that actually is.
Android app and web are live.
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Open Settings on your phone right now and look at what your messaging app has access to.
Contacts. Location. Photos. Microphone. Background activity. Most people tapped Allow years ago and never looked again.
Every one of those is a copy of your life sitting on someone else's server — not the messages, the life around them. Who you know. Where you sleep. What you photograph.
Vault asks for none of it. No contacts, no location, no photo access, no phone number, no background telemetry. Camera and mic only when you actually start a call.
Go check yours. It takes ten seconds and it's usually worse than people expect.
Android app is live.
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New in Vault: Posts.
A public feed where nothing identifies the author. No handle, no profile, no posting history, no account to lock. Every post deletes itself after 24 hours.
Most platforms make you build a permanent identity before you're allowed to speak. This one doesn't ask who you are at all.
Android app is live.
What would you say if it couldn't be traced back to you?
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Look at this grid long enough and you'll start telling yourself a story about the person it belongs to.
The 2am streak. The repeating 9am slot. The long Sunday session.
Now notice: not one message was read to make it. This is only who and when — the metadata your messenger stores whether or not it encrypts your texts.
Vault never records it. No contact graph, no account, nothing kept past 24 hours.
Android app is live.
What would your week look like drawn this way?
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Every company says they take your privacy seriously. Here's a better question:
If someone showed up tomorrow with a warrant for your account, what could they actually hand over?
For most messengers, the answer is a lot. Your number. Your email. Your contact list. Every device you've logged in from. Years of who you talked to and when — the metadata, which is usually more revealing than the messages themselves.
For Vault, the answer is nothing. Not because we'd refuse, but because those fields don't exist on our side. No name, no number, no email, no contact graph. Threads erase themselves after 24 hours.
A promise can be broken. An empty table can't be read.
Android app is live.
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I built the messenger I couldn't find anywhere.
The encryption of a security app. The reach of a feed. The groups and channels people actually use. One app, no phone number, no email, no account — and every thread deletes itself after 24 hours.
Most apps ask who you are before you send a word. Vault never asks.
I put the whole thing in a 15 second video.
Tell me what I got wrong.
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Every app is racing to remember more about you.
Bigger context windows, longer histories, better recall, more personalization. All of it built on the same thing: a permanent record of what you said and who you said it to.
We built the opposite.
Vault has no phone number, no email, no account, and no message history. Every thread encrypts on your device and erases itself after 24 hours. There's no archive to breach, sell or subpoena.
You can't leak what nobody kept.
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Write something you'd never put in writing.
That's the actual test of a private messenger, and almost none of them pass it — because whatever you send is still sitting on a server tonight, and next year, and the year after that.
Vault gives every thread 24 hours. Encrypted on your device when you hit send, erased before tomorrow. No name, no number, no account, no archive.
You can't leak what nobody kept.
Android app is live.
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Ransomware crews had another good week. The rest of us didn't.
Every one of those attacks pays off for the same reason: there was something worth stealing sitting on a server.
Vault doesn't keep anything. No name, no number, no email, no message history. End-to-end encrypted, and every thread erases itself in 24 hours.
Nothing stored means nothing to leak.
Android app is live. No account needed.
What's your messaging app holding on you right now?
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Another week, another breach.
Here's what nobody says out loud: data can't leak if it was never collected.
Every breach headline you've read this year had the same root cause — a company was holding something it didn't need to hold. Your number. Your email. Your contact list. Years of your messages sitting in a table, waiting.
So we built a messenger that holds none of it.
No name. No number. No email. Messages are end-to-end encrypted, and every thread deletes itself after 24 hours. There's no archive to steal, sell, or subpoena.
It's called Vault. Android app went live this week.
The safest database is an empty one.
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Our entire privacy policy fits in one post:
We don't know your name.
We don't have your number or email.
We can't read your messages.
Everything deletes itself in 24 hours.
That's it. That's the policy.
It's called Vault. The Android app went live this week.
Now go check what your messaging app knows about you — it's usually worse than you'd think.
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Your messaging app knows your phone number.
Which means it knows your name, your carrier, your bank's 2FA target, and everyone in your contacts — before you sent a single message.
Encryption doesn't fix that. E2EE protects what you said. It does nothing about who you are, who you talked to, or how often. Content leaks are rare. Metadata leaks are Tuesday.
Three questions for any app that calls itself private:
1. Can you sign up with no phone number or email?
2. Does your message history exist on their server at all?
3. Is your contact graph on their side, or only yours?
Most fail at least one. I built one that passes all three — Android app shipped this week.
Run those questions on whatever you're using now. The answers are usually worse than people expect.
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Vault is now on Android.
End-to-end encrypted chat and calls with no phone number, no email, and nothing kept. Every thread deletes itself in 24 hours.
Download it straight from the site — no store, no account.
vaultapp.space
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Signal is excellent. It still needs a phone number to register.
Not a flaw — a tradeoff. But it means one identifier links that account to you.
Vault made the other choice. No phone, no email, no account.
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Telegram vanished from the iOS App Store overnight. Worldwide. No explanation from Apple.
Existing installs work. Nobody new can download it.
Someone else owns the shelf.
Vault runs in your browser. Nothing to delist.
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