Free · zero spam · no ads

Private chat for the people you actually know.

HandoChat is a free place to message and call your friends, family and coworkers. Nobody can reach you unless you said yes, and there's nothing to install: it runs in your browser and sits on your home screen like an app.

Zero spam
No messages from strangers
No phone number
No ads, no tracking

Zero spam. Strangers can't message you.

Nobody can send you a single word until you've said yes. There's no public directory, no "people you may know" and no way to look you up, so there's nobody to spam you. Block anyone without them being told.

Voice calls, encrypted end to end

Calls are encrypted with keys made on your two devices for that one call. If a network forces a call through a relay, the relay only passes along scrambled audio. A six-digit safety code lets you both check that nobody is listening in between.

Passwords that disappear

Send a password or code as a secret. It stays sealed until your friend opens it, and the moment they do, it's deleted from our server. They can copy it without it ever showing on screen.

Photos, files and links

Share pictures, documents and links in the same conversation. Notifications say who wrote and what kind of thing it was, never what it says, so your lock screen stays private.

Small business Free

Let customers write to you, without the spam that comes with it.

Turn on Open inbox and anyone on HandoChat can message you right away, with no request to accept first. You also get a public link to put on your website, your card or your shop window. Customers open it, sign in, and they're talking to you.

One switchOpen inbox is under You. Turn it off and new people need a request again.
A link that's yoursIt never runs out while your inbox is open. Turning the inbox off retires it, and turning it on again gives you a new one.
Still in controlBlock anyone, any time. Everyone else keeps their own inbox closed, so a business can't message people who haven't contacted it.

Enterprise Coming soon

Your team's conversations, on devices you approve, under your company's control.

Handover Enterprise gives each company its own private workspace. Employees talk, call and share inside it, only from devices the company has approved, and the company decides who's in, what's kept and for how long.

Ask ZilverNet about early access

Company-approved devicesOnly phones and computers your company has approved can open the workspace. A lost or retired device is cut off in one step.
Protected by the companyConversations are encrypted and stay in your company's own workspace, separate from anyone's personal chats.
Managed by the companyAdd and remove people as they join and leave, set how long messages are kept, and see a record of who did what.
Connected to your company's dataHandover links to the systems your business runs on: your ERP, CRM, inventory, helpdesk and databases. Look up an order, a customer or a ticket right from a conversation, and get alerts from those systems where your team already talks. Each person sees only what their role allows in those systems, and the data stays where it is.
AI agents on your teamChat with AI agents from ZilverNet NeuroBots as easily as with a coworker. They run inside your company, and before they take any real action they show you exactly what they'll do and wait for a person to say yes.

How it works

Get invited.A friend who's already here sends you an invite link or a friend request to your email address, or you open a business's public link.
Sign in.Use an account you already have. There's no new password to make up and no phone number to hand over.
Talk.Message, call and share with the people you've accepted. Add HandoChat to your home screen and it opens like any other app.

What we can and can't see

Privacy claims are easy to make, so here is exactly where things stand.

Protected

Voice calls are encrypted end to end. We never have the keys and we never hear them. Audio is never recorded or stored.
Secrets are deleted from our server the moment they're opened.
Messages and files are encrypted on the way to us and encrypted while stored, and deleted automatically after 30 days.
Notifications never include what was sent.

Not yet

Messages are not end-to-end encrypted yet. They're encrypted on our server with our key, which means the service could technically read them. End-to-end encrypted messages are the next thing we're building.
Like any service, we see who talks to whom and when, so we can deliver messages and calls. A profile photo, if you add one, is shown only to your friends.

No ads. We don't sell, share or mine your conversations, and there are no tracking scripts on this site.

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. There's no paid plan and no ads. HandoChat is the chat side of Handover, a tool IT teams use to send scripts and passwords to the computers they support, and it's free for anyone who's invited.

Why can't I just sign up?

On purpose. Being invite-only keeps out spam, scams and strangers. Ask someone who already uses HandoChat to send you an invite link or a friend request, or open the public link of a business that uses it.

Can a business send me ads?

No. A business with an open inbox can be messaged by anyone, but it can't message you until you've written to it or accepted its request, the same as anyone else. And you can block it at any time.

Do I need to install an app?

No. It works in Safari, Chrome, Edge and Firefox, on phones and computers. On an iPhone, tap Share and then "Add to Home Screen" to get an icon and notifications.

Which accounts can I sign in with?

Can I delete what I sent?

Yes, any message you sent can be deleted for both of you. Everything else is deleted automatically after 30 days.

Is there a limit on how many people can join?

For now, yes. HandoChat is growing slowly and by invitation, so it stays quick and spam-free.

Have an invite? You're one tap away.

Made by

ZilverNet

ZilverNet builds the tools that IT teams use to watch over the servers, networks and sites they're responsible for, and to put AI to work on them safely. HandoChat grew out of that work.

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