Private messenger · Android
In final testingFor lawyers, journalists, founders and executives, whose conversations carry real weight. You sign up with a username, not your number, and connect through personal invitations. On SeTalk, nobody can look you up by your number, because it never asks for it.
First month US$9.90, then US$99/month. Or US$285 for 90 days, US$950 for a year. Paid in Monero, renewed only when you choose.
The first-month price applies to your account's first payment, if it's the monthly plan.
The Android app is in final testing; the download is coming soon and sign-ups aren't open yet. iPhone is planned for a later phase. Read the limits before moving sensitive conversations.
Real situations
Five moments when people with a lot at stake choose carefully where they talk, and what SeTalk does in each one.
Lawyer
The figures are final, the client is anxious, and nothing should circulate before both sides sign.
How SeTalk helpsYour account has no phone number, email or real name attached, and the account service keeps no contacts and no messages.
Founder
Price, terms, who stays and who goes. One message in the wrong place can move the whole deal.
How SeTalk helpsDirect conversations are end-to-end encrypted, with an extra layer built to resist future quantum computers, on by default. Group chats don't have that layer yet.
Journalist
Your source took a risk to reach out. Give them a channel that never asks for their phone number.
How SeTalk helpsYou connect through a personal invitation link or QR code, with no phone number on either side. Your source needs their own SeTalk subscription.
Executive
The results are in, the announcement isn't. The board still needs to talk tonight.
How SeTalk helpsMessages and contacts live on your phones. Our account service never receives them.
On the road
New country, new chip, a number nobody knows yet. Your conversations shouldn't depend on which SIM is in the tray.
How SeTalk helpsSeTalk doesn't use your phone number at all. Swap the SIM and nothing changes in the app.
It works the same for any conversation you'd rather keep inside a small, known circle. Before you move anything sensitive, see what SeTalk can't protect.
Why no phone number
It's tied to your carrier, to the text-message codes from your bank and, in many countries, to your ID. Most messengers start with it.
SeTalk never asks for your number, not even once.
We're not the only ones: SimpleX, Session and Threema don't ask for one either. See the full comparison, with sources and dates.
In transit
Only you and your contact read it. The servers handle only the scrambled version, and still see that a message passed and when.
Illustration of a message: you write it in plain text, the server handles it scrambled and your contact reads it in plain text again.
#ForReal
No fine print. This is the complete record our account service keeps for a SeTalk account. Everything else stays on your phone, never reaches us, or is listed in the threat model. After you delete the account, the username stays blocked for 30 days, kept only as a hash. Invoices are kept for accounting, unlinked from the account.
See why it's safer · the path of a message, who learns what, and the limits
Messages travel through relay queues. Each queue has its own separate credentials, and the server keeps no record linking a queue to a person, or one person to another.
You and your contacts, in conversations.
Each direction of each conversation uses its own queue.
Only queues. No names, no phone numbers, no address book.
Updated October 11, 2026. If we are ever legally required to hand over data, we will publish what was asked and what we provided, as far as the law allows. Transparency report.
Paid in Monero. A card shows up on your bank statement and Bitcoin payments are public; the Monero blockchain doesn't show who paid, who received or how much. Why we only accept Monero.
Your messages and contacts live on your phone, not on our servers. That makes the phone the thing to protect. See the limits.
How it works
No forms asking who you are. Just what's needed to keep your account yours.
Pick a username and a password, save your recovery codes and set up an authenticator app.
Choose a plan and pay in Monero on this website. The rate is locked for 60 minutes.
The Android app is coming soon. When it's out, you'll sign in with your username, password and authenticator code. The first time you open the app, a short guide explains how SeTalk works and sets up an app passcode and a reserved profile.
Send a personal invitation link or QR code, then confirm the contact through another channel.
Built on SimpleX
SimpleX is an independent open-source project with its own free apps, and they're a good choice. SeTalk is a separate subscription service on that foundation: a familiar interface, servers we run and maintain, clear guides, and real help getting your small circle connected.
Your subscription pays for the service itself: the app, the servers and the help.
Pricing
You pay each period in Monero on this website, when you decide to renew. Nothing is ever charged without you.
US$99 / 30 days
US$9.90 on your account's first payment, if it's the monthly plan. Then US$99.
US$285 / 90 days
Save 4% · US$95/month US$297
US$950 / 365 days
Save 20% · about US$79/month US$1,188
First month US$9.90, then US$99/month. It applies only if your account's first payment is on the monthly plan. An offer invoice paid short or after it expired also counts as used. The amount that counts is always the one on the invoice issued by the service.
If your subscription expires, you still have 7 days to read your conversations and renew; after that the app is locked until you renew. Nothing is deleted. Each of your contacts needs their own subscription.
Security limits
Encryption is one part of protecting a conversation. A phone that's unlocked or compromised, a contact who saves or forwards a message, an invitation sent to the wrong person: no app fixes those, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Questions
The first release is for Android. An iPhone version is planned for a later phase; we don't promise a date.
No. SeTalk is a separate messenger. Your contact installs SeTalk and you connect through a personal invitation.
Yes. Each SeTalk account has its own subscription.
No. There are no automatic charges. Each period is a new invoice that you pay in Monero on this website, when you choose to renew.
With a card, your bank statement shows who you paid. With Bitcoin, payments are public forever. With Monero, the blockchain doesn't show who paid, who received or how much. The exchange where you bought it still knows you bought Monero. Why we only accept Monero.
No. You sign up with a username, a password and an authenticator app. Everything the service keeps is listed in "What SeTalk knows about you" above.
You have 7 days to read your conversations and renew. After that the app is locked until you renew. Nothing is deleted.
If your phone stays offline for more than 21 days, reading is locked until it reconnects, even with a paid subscription. Nothing is deleted: once the phone is back online, the app checks your subscription again.
No. Recovery codes only help you get back into your SeTalk account. Your conversations live on your phone; the codes can't restore them from a lost phone.
No. Your account opens with two of three: password, authenticator, recovery codes. Without two of them, nobody can recover it, including us. Your conversations on your phone are not affected by your account.
The Trail of Bits reviews cover the upstream SimpleX project, in the versions examined. SeTalk itself has not had an independent audit yet.
No. That guarantee doesn't exist, for SeTalk or any other app. SeTalk uses the encryption and privacy controls of its SimpleX base. The security of your phone and what the people you talk to do with your messages are still part of the risk. Read the threat model.
Compare SeTalk with other messengers · sources and dates included
First month US$9.90 on your account's first payment, if it's the monthly plan; then US$99/month. Android. Monero. Manual renewal.