# TwoKey: Paired Messaging — Only people you've met

> Only people you've met (iPhone/iPad app by I Totally Need That LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/twokey-paired-messaging/id6803808810 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [I Totally Need That LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6798848224)
- Category: Productivity, Social Networking
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-03
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is TwoKey?

TwoKey is a messaging app for conversations that must stay between exactly two people.

Before you can message someone, the two of you have to be in the same room: one phone shows a code, the other scans it. Without that step the two phones cannot open a conversation at all. There is no username to look up, no phone number to find, and no link that lets a stranger reach you.

WHAT IT DOES
• Pair face to face by scanning a code from the other person's screen.
• Confirm you are talking to the right person by reading twelve characters aloud. They match only if nobody is in between.
• Message text is never written to your phone's storage. There is no history to recover from a lost device.
• Your contacts are kept, encrypted, so you do not meet again every time you close the app.
• Agree how long messages live, as something both people accept.
• Message text is hidden from screenshots and screen recordings, and both people are told when one is attempted.
• A keyboard built into the app, so what you type never passes through a third-party keyboard or the predictive-text dictionary.
• Notifications name nobody unless you choose otherwise, and never show message text.
• Lock the app behind Face ID and a code of your own.
• Back up your contacts, encrypted, with a recovery key only you hold.

WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
• It cannot stop the other person photographing the screen with another camera. Nothing can.
• It cannot help if either phone is compromised.
• It has not yet been independently security audited. The app says so, and we would rather say it than imply a review that has not happened.

PRICING
Free to download. Scanning someone's code and replying is always free; you are never asked to pay to keep talking to someone.

Starting conversations of your own, by showing your code, is free for 14 days from your first pairing. After that it needs a yearly subscription: Personal, up to five conversations you started at a time, or Unlimited. If a subscription ends, nothing is deleted; the conversations you started pause until you subscribe again.

PRIVACY
No account. No phone number. No analytics, advertising or tracking of any kind. We cannot read your messages; the keys never leave the two phones. The camera is used only to read a pairing code.

Privacy policy: https://itotallyneedthat.com/twokey/privacy/
Terms of service: https://itotallyneedthat.com/twokey/terms/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlimited | $49.99 | per year |
| Personal | $19.99 | per year |


## Is TwoKey safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess TwoKey.

## Is TwoKey legit?

TwoKey: Paired Messaging appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for TwoKey is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-11-09

• An in-person check when pairing. On iPhones with an ultra-wideband chip (iPhone 11 and later, except iPhone SE), the two phones must be held together, within about 30 cm, before a pairing completes. A code photographed from across a room can no longer be used to pair.
• Your keys are now sealed by your iPhone's Secure Enclave. One change to know about: restoring your iPhone from an iCloud or computer backup no longer brings your TwoKey contacts back. Make a TwoKey backup (Settings › Back up my contacts) — that is how contacts move to a new or restored phone.
• If someone you pair with uses TwoKey+, our app for professionals, and keeps a record of your conversation, TwoKey tells you before you pair and shows it in the conversation for as long as it is true.
• A new layout with three tabs: Contacts, Pair and Settings. TwoKey opens on your contacts, or on pairing if you have none yet. After pairing, each phone names the other, and the pairing code no longer carries a name. Contact support, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are in Settings.
• The TwoKey keyboard has a row of numbers along the top, and the app lock is set up and entered on it.
• Conversations on the same Wi-Fi now move to the relay as soon as the other phone closes TwoKey, instead of waiting on a connection that had gone.
• Smaller fixes and improvements.

### 1.0 — 2026-11-03

No release notes.

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