Talks vs Obliv

Talks is a private messenger built for people who value their privacy. Your conversations are end-to-end encrypted, your messages disappear automatically, and nothing is kept longer than it needs to be. No feeds. No noise. No tracking of your chats. Just fast, secure, private conversations in 50 languages. GET STARTED IN SECONDS Sign up with just your phone number and a one-time SMS verification code. No email and no passwords. You can optionally import your phone contacts to instantly see which of your friends are already on Talks. Contacts are used only for matching and are never shared or sold. END-TO-END ENCRYPTION Your one-on-one chats are encrypted device to device. No one in between can read them, not even us. DISAPPEARING MESSAGES Set a timer and your messages are permanently deleted from our servers when it runs out. Gone means gone. VOICE AND VIDEO CALLS Crystal-clear one-on-one and group calls, connected peer-to-peer. 50 LANGUAGES A fully localized app plus real-time message translation, so you can talk with anyone, anywhere. LAST SEEN AND PRIVACY CONTROLS Decide who can see your online status and last seen. Turn it off and stay invisible. FREE AND PREMIUM Start free, with everything you need for private messaging. Go Premium to unlock unlimited messaging, voice, video and group calls, real-time translation in 50 languages, custom disappearing-message timers, larger file sharing, bigger groups, and an ad-free experience. Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://talks.ataforge.com/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://talks.ataforge.com/terms.html Questions? Email hello@ataforge.com Download Talks and take back your privacy.

Obliv is a messenger for people who want their conversations to actually disappear. No phone number. No email. No backups. No recovery. Just a six-digit PIN you memorise, and messages that vanish from our servers the moment your device acknowledges them. End-to-end encrypted on your device before anything leaves it. The server is zero-knowledge — it cannot read, index, or recover what you send. Features • Text, photo, video, voice notes, and files • Encrypted audio and video calls with native iOS call integration • Private group chats with automatic key rotation when membership changes • Contact exchange by QR code or short ID — no directory, no lookups, no phone book • Panic wipe after repeated wrong PIN attempts. No recovery. No exceptions. • Screenshot and screen-recording protection on sensitive screens • No analytics. No crash reporting. No advertising. No third-party tracking. • PIN-only unlock. No biometrics. No device-key storage. Threat model Obliv is designed for people who expect their devices to be seized, inspected, or lost. Your identity lives on-device, encrypted with a key derived from your PIN using a slow, brute-force-resistant function. Biometrics are deliberately unsupported — no one can unlock Obliv by holding your phone up to your face. If you forget your PIN, the identity is gone. This is the point. What we store On our servers: public keys so peers can find you, transient encrypted envelopes that are deleted the moment your device acknowledges them, and opaque push tokens for wake-up notifications. Nothing else. No message content, no contact lists, no conversation history, no behavioural data. Limitations Obliv is intentionally single-device. Multi-device support widens the attack surface and is not supported. If you reset your phone or reinstall Obliv, you start over. Obliv is independent. Not affiliated with Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, or any other messenger.