Features

Everything you can do with Hidesay

From everyday chats to ideas you’ll only find here. Here’s the app, one thing at a time.

Chats and messages

The everyday stuff, done with care.

  • Messages, photos, videos, files and voice notes
  • Replies, reactions and mentions
  • Messages you can edit, forward, pin or delete for everyone
  • Scheduled sending and messages that disappear on their own
  • Tools to touch up photos and videos before you send them
The chat between Giulia and Marco: they’re planning a walk by the lake, with a heart as a reaction.
A message’s menu: reply, copy, translate, forward, pin, show how it’s protected.

Groups and channels

For when you’re many, or have something to tell many.

  • Groups with admins and permissions
  • Invites with a link
  • Channels: you post, subscribers read, comment and react
  • Public groups and channels, which also show up in Discover

A group with visible history shows old messages to people who join later: to do that, those messages stay readable on the server. The app tells you before you turn it on.

The group Sabato insieme: four friends choosing where to go for an outing.
The channel Idee per il weekend, with a post about Lake Braies and a reaction.

Discover

A feed to find groups and channels you don’t know yet.

  • Posts, photos and videos from public groups and channels
  • Hearts, comments and sharing
  • One tap to join the group or channel
  • Content picked around your interests, and you decide what you see
The Discover feed: a photo of Lake Braies posted by the channel Idee per il weekend.
Photo in the app: Adert, CC BY-SA 4.0

Hidesay AI

An uncensored artificial intelligence that sits in your chat list like a contact. And it’s free.

  • Answers anything, with no censorship or filters, even on uncomfortable topics
  • Helps you write and searches the web
  • Looks at the photos you send it
  • Creates images, if the request is allowed
  • Listens to voice notes: your phone transcribes the text
  • Knows the app and explains how things work
  • Free, with a number of answers and images per day

To answer you, the AI has to be able to read what you write, so this chat isn’t private like the ones between two people. Write the things that should stay between you and someone else in a private chat.

All about Hidesay AI
The chat with Hidesay AI, with the first suggested questions and the label saying it’s encrypted with PGP.

Voice and video calls

When a message isn’t enough.

  • Voice calls and video calls
  • They start from the chat with one tap
  • Protected just like messages
  • You choose who can call you
The sheet for calling Marco Bianchi: voice call or video call.
A call with Marco Bianchi.

Messages that disappear

For the things that shouldn’t stick around.

  • Secret messages: a photo, video or voice note that opens only once
  • Disappearing messages, which vanish on their own
  • Delete for everyone, from the other phones too

Translations and transcriptions

Chat with people who speak another language, get a voice note without listening to it.

  • Translate a message, or a whole chat, into your language
  • Transcribe a voice note into text
  • It all happens on your phone: messages never leave it to be translated

Your way

Make the app look the way you want, and your profile too.

  • Light and dark themes and colors to choose from
  • Chat wallpapers
  • Different styles for bubbles and fonts
  • Stickers you make, packs and GIFs
  • A profile with a photo, cover, bio and username
The Appearance screen: light, dark or system mode, and themes to choose from.
Marco Bianchi’s profile, with username, bio and key security code.

Neat and tidy

For when the chats start piling up.

  • Folders and archive
  • Locked chats that open only with your fingerprint
  • Saved messages, a chat all to yourself
  • Several accounts on the same phone
The side menu: new group, new channel, contacts, saved messages, archived chats, locked chats, folders.

Account and sign-in

Sign in the way you prefer, and decide how locked down you want to be.

  • An account with your phone number, or without one
  • Two-step verification and app lock
  • Linked devices under control
  • A protected copy of your key, for switching phones
  • Delete your account right from the app
The welcome screen: create an account with your phone number or sign in with the 16 digits.

Bots

Accounts run by a program, for services and automation.

  • Anyone can create a bot from the @bot console
  • A Bot API documented online
  • Before your first message the app tells you how the bot reads what you write
Bot API and Python library

Discover the rest by using it.

Every version of Hidesay brings something new: you’ll find what’s new on the Download page.

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