Onym Messenger vs PrivaMesh

Onym is a private messenger built on one idea: your conversations are yours. END-TO-END ENCRYPTED Only the people in your group can read what's sent. Onym's servers never see your messages. NO PHONE NUMBER, NO EMAIL Your identity is a cryptographic key you own — not your contact info. Create one in seconds, and make as many as you like. NO CENTRAL SERVER Group membership is anchored on the Stellar network, not owned by us. There's no company account that can lock you out. START A CHAT WITH ONE LINK Spin up an encrypted group and share a single invite link. People join later without exchanging any keys. BRING YOUR OWN INFRASTRUCTURE Onym carries messages and media over open Nostr relays and Blossom servers. Use the defaults, or point the app at your own instances for maximum privacy. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES Keep contacts and chats cleanly separated. Switch between identities with a tap. YOU HOLD THE KEYS A recovery phrase restores your identity on a new device. Lose it and no one — including us — can recover it. Onym doesn't ask who you are. No accounts, no profiles, no tracking, no ads. Just private conversations you control. Built by people who think privacy is a right.

PrivaMesh is an end-to-end encrypted messenger. No phone number, no email: your account is a 12-word recovery phrase that stays on your phone. HOW MESSAGES TRAVEL Each message is encrypted on your phone and written to the public Solana blockchain, where only the person you write to can read it. Our relay passes it on and pays the network fee; it cannot read your messages and keeps no copy. You never need or handle cryptocurrency. ON YOUR PHONE Keys, contacts and decrypted chats stay on this device. Saved Messages come back when you restore your phrase on a new phone; chats with other people don't. PROTECTION • A new one-time address for every message • Optional Face ID lock for your keys • Disappearing messages • Safety numbers to check a contact in person • A duress code that erases the account from this phone PRICING Your first account gets 10 free messages a month. PrivaMesh+ subscriptions and message packs add more through In-App Purchase; PrivaMesh+ also adds a PrivaMesh+ badge and up to 3 accounts. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage them in your Apple ID settings. Anything you send stays on the blockchain permanently: unreadable without the keys, but impossible to delete.