Everything you expect. Nothing you have to give up.

One to one and in groups, encrypted end to end and carried over Tor.

Record, send and play, in chats and in groups.

A camera inside the app. Location and camera details are removed from pictures before they leave your phone.

Send documents and other files. They go exactly as they are: Avano removes hidden data from photos and videos, not from a PDF or a Word file, so check those before you send.

Record a short clip and send it.

Share where you are as a single message. Nothing keeps tracking you afterwards.

Quote a message, correct one you sent, or ask for it to be taken back.

A quick reaction, one per message.

Find anything across all your conversations. Avano decrypts your messages in memory to search them and keeps no index.

Set a timer and messages delete themselves on both phones.

See when your messages were read, in one-to-one chats. Typing indicators are yours to switch on.

Ask to be reminded about a chat later. The notification shows only the app's name.

Unsent text is kept per chat, archived chats leave the list, and a blocked contact simply disappears.

Both themes, following your phone or set by hand.

Make a group, invite people with a link, leave whenever you want.

Add and remove members, rename the group, hand it over to someone else.

Every member can check that the whole group is seeing the same conversation. Something most encrypted messengers cannot promise.

A phone that missed part of a group asks for what it lacks, instead of silently showing a gap.

Star a message for yourself, or pin one for the group.

The same attachments as one-to-one chats, delivered to every member.

End-to-end encrypted with post-quantum key agreement, and relayed so that neither caller learns the other's address.

Calls travel outside Tor, so the call relay sees your network address, and the other caller's, for the length of the call and up to about a minute after it. It never hears or sees what is said, and the app tells you before every call.

One to one, through the same call relay, at a fixed rate for the whole call, so the traffic does not follow the picture. Not on iPhone yet.

Your identity is created on your phone from twenty-four words. Nothing is registered anywhere.

Add someone with a one-time link. It stops working the moment it is used.

Both phones show a code and read one. Done in seconds.

Compare a number in person or scan it, and you know nobody sits in the middle.

Set on your phone and sent only to your contacts. There is no profile on any server.

Your twenty-four words bring your identity back on a new phone. Choose trusted friends as recovery helpers and your contacts come back too; any two of them together could read your contact list, so choose people who would not.

Your passphrase is tied to a key held in the phone's hardware. Locked, everything is sealed and the keys are gone from memory.

A quick-settings tile locks Avano without opening it. On the iPhone, the app locks itself the moment it leaves the screen.

A second door inside the app, with its own passphrase, for documents that stay on your phone unless you share one, sealed, with a contact.

One action removes the account, the messages, the keys and every file the app made.

Built into the app, no separate install. Our relay is reached only as an onion service, so it never learns your address.

Where Tor is blocked, paste a bridge line or point the app at a proxy you already run. The iPhone screen for this is coming.

While Avano is open it sends at a steady rate, so someone watching your connection cannot tell when you send a message. Photos and files still upload in a burst when you send them. Free, and on by default.

Neither Apple nor Google is told a message arrived for you. On Android the app alerts you itself, saying only its own name; on iPhone it shows no alert yet, so a message waits until you open Avano.

With message alerts on, an optional service keeps Avano receiving in the background, even on a locked phone, for up to 24 hours after you last open it.

Protection on the key exchange and on every message after it, for the years ahead.

On Android now; on iPhone the picture path is not built yet.

Linked to your phone. One phone per identity; a second phone at the same time is refused, and there will be no desktop app.

On the list.

Your phone never fetches a preview, so no website learns you opened a message.

Your messages exist only on your phone. Nothing to leak, nothing to hand over.

Your address book never leaves your phone. You add people with a link or a code.