Official tour
The Midnight Select tour
The same tour that’s built into the app: what makes Midnight Select different, in under a minute. Tap the right side for the next card, the left to go back, and hold to pause.
No phone number. Just a @username.
Sign up with a name you choose. Nobody can look you up by your number.
Mirrors the tour in the app (Android 0.269 and iPhone build 44 or later). Pictures are illustrations.
All cards
No phone number. Just a @username.
Sign up with a name you choose. Nobody can look you up by your number.
Every private chat is locked. Groups too.
End-to-end encrypted by default with the Signal Protocol. The servers and cells that carry it can’t read it.
Your contacts never leave your phone.
No address-book upload and no matching on a server. You add people by @username.
A network people run.
Messages travel through cells people run on their own computers. Today a message crosses at most two cells, three with Hide my IP.
No ads. No tracking.
There are no ads and no tracking code in the app. The apps, relay and cells are AGPL-3.0 licensed.
AI that stays on your iPhone.iPhone
Writing help runs entirely on this iPhone. When AI replies for you, it’s always labelled AI.
No internet? Texts can still hop.Preview · off by default
With Offline mesh on and the app open, a text to someone you chat with can hop through nearby phones over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, still end-to-end encrypted. Texts, photos, voice notes and files up to 3 MB, and offline voice calls to a nearby phone over Wi-Fi; still being tested between real phones.
A wallet only you control.Test network · no real money
Your keys stay on your phone. Private (shielded) payments are being tested on Midnight’s test network, with no real value.
Why Midnight Select
Early and in testing. Independent security audit before public launch.
Midnight Select WhatsApp Telegram Sign up without a phone number End-to-end encrypted by default, groups too Contacts never uploaded Carried by cells people run No ads Checked October 10, 2026. WhatsApp has used end-to-end encryption by default for chats and groups since 2016.