About Twigum
What Twigum is
Twigum is a small, private, invite-only chat for family and friends. Messages, photos, and videos are encrypted on your device before they're sent. Older versions stored a backup of your encryption key on the server, protected by a key made from your password, so the server operator could in theory have opened it. New backups are locked with a recovery key that stays with you, and accounts that had an older backup will get new keys in an upcoming update.
Each Twigum server is run by its owner, not by a big company's cloud. You can use it in your browser, or with the phone and desktop apps.
What matters here
- Privacy by default. Your email and phone number stay hidden unless you choose to share them. No ads, no tracking.
- A calm forest campsite look, like gathering around a fire.
- Gentle sounds, which you can turn off any time.
- A little fun, like the snapping helper that clears away deleted messages.
- Easy on everyone: readable text, and less motion if your device asks for it.
- Simple to get around: your chat list is home, and Back always brings you there.
Thanks for being here. Pull up a log by the fire.
Emoji styles: Twemoji © Twitter, Inc and other contributors, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Noto Emoji © Google LLC, licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (flags: public domain). Fluent Emoji © Microsoft Corporation, MIT License. Pictures optimized for size only.
Sounds: Forest ambience “wind in trees” by chimerical on Freesound, CC0 (public domain).
Stickers: the character stickers are original Twigum art. Classic Reactions stickers are Fluent Emoji © Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.
MIT License (Fluent Emoji)
MIT License Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE