Nerve vs Haven Private Circles

Nerve is a passkey-only messenger for direct conversations, private groups, public channels, and user-added media sources. PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS • Create a random Nerve ID without giving Nerve a phone number, email address or password. • Sign in with a passkey using your device's passkey provider. • Direct messages and private groups are end-to-end encrypted. Public channels and their posts are public by design. • Manage trusted devices and passkeys, log out, or delete your account. MESSAGES AND GROUPS • Start conversations by Nerve ID or @handle. • Create private groups and manage their members. • Discover, follow and report public channels. • Pin, mute and archive conversations. YOUR APPS AND MEDIA • Add compatible HTTPS manifests or MusicFree music-plugin links yourself. No media service or subscription is included. • Browse the catalogs and search options supplied by your chosen sources. • Play compatible video streams and listen to audio with a playback queue and background playback. • Play compatible torrent sources directly on your device, with peer and buffering information. • Save supported media locally and use system tools to open or share completed files. Only access and save content you have permission to use. • Music plugins run on your device. Review the source before installing and approve its requested connections. • Source providers receive the requests you send to them and may see your IP address. Torrent peers and trackers can also see your IP address. Nerve's backend does not host or proxy these media streams. Nerve is free and contains no advertising.

Haven is a private social network for the people who actually matter. No ads. No tracking. No algorithm deciding what you see. No company server holding your memories. Everything you share is end-to-end encrypted with hybrid post-quantum cryptography and travels between your devices over the internet — directly, or through a relay that can't read it — or over Bluetooth and Wi‑Fi when you're together offline. Even we can't read it. • Private circles — share with family and close friends in separate, invite‑only circles, and always see exactly who a post will reach • Posts, photos, videos & stories — with a modern camera, easy captions, and a song • Direct & group messages — with sender names, timestamps, and delivery checks, plus scheduled and screenshot‑protected secret messages • Group voice & video calls — 1:1 and group, with screen sharing, peer‑to‑peer, no call server in the middle • All your devices in sync — start on iPhone, pick up on iPad or Mac; your posts and messages follow you • Disappearing posts — you decide how long things stick around • Nearby sharing — works with no internet at all, phone to phone • Your relay does the heavy lifting — photos and videos go up once to a relay you run and friends fetch them from there, so your phone stays cool; or keep memories on your own S3 bucket • Stays out of your way — big transfers wait while you're on a call, or when your device is hot or in Low Power Mode • No account, no phone number, no email — your identity lives only on your device Haven is a stronghold for the people you love. It's built so that no one — not advertisers, not data brokers, not even the people who made it — can get between you and your circle.