Messaging that keeps up
Send a message and it is there. Typing indicators and read state so you know where you stand, and it reconnects on its own when the signal comes back.
Stay close. Chat naturally.
JessChat is a messaging app for the handful of people you actually talk to. Messages, photos, voice notes and calls, one to one or in a group.
Coming soon on iOS and Android.
How safety works
What it does
Everything here is in the app today. Nothing on this page is a plan.
Photos and video
Share a photo straight from the camera roll at full quality, or a video clip up to 90 seconds. Both are prepared for sending so a big file does not mean a long wait.
Voice notes
When typing is the wrong shape for what you want to say, hold to record and send it as a voice note.
Voice and video calls
Call one person or a group. Mute, switch camera, and carry on in a picture-in-picture window where your device supports it.
Groups
Make a group, name it, add people. Everything that works in a conversation works in a group, calls included.
Notifications you control
Get told when a message or a call arrives. Turn previews off and the notification says a message came in without showing what it says.
Block and report
Block anyone and they can no longer message or call you. Report an account, a message, a photo or a group for a moderator to review.
Your devices, your call
Every device signed in to your account is listed, with when it was last used. End any session you do not recognise and it signs out immediately.
Photos and video that just send
A photo off a modern phone is enormous, and a video is worse. The app handles that for you instead of making it your problem.
Big photos get smaller, not worse
A high-resolution photo is resized before it is sent, at a size chosen to keep it looking right on a phone screen. You pick the picture. You do not think about the file.
Video up to 90 seconds
Clips are prepared for sending so they arrive quickly and play straight away, without the wait that usually comes with sending video in a chat.
Calling
Voice and video, one to one or with a group.
- Voice and video calls. Start a call from any conversation.
- Group calls. The same call, with everyone in the group.
- Mute and camera controls. Turn your microphone or camera off at any point in a call.
- Picture in picture, and screen sharing. Available where your device and platform support them. Which features you get can vary by device.
Safety, and what we can actually see
The useful version of this section is the specific one, so here it is.
Blocking and reporting
Blocking stops someone messaging or calling you, needs no reason, and is not announced to them. You can separately report an account, a message, a photo or video, or a group, and a moderator reviews it against the guidelines.
What moderators cannot do
Being a moderator does not come with the ability to read conversations. The tools have no feature that opens a thread or plays back a call, and the only message content a moderator sees is content somebody attached to a report. The server enforces that, not the dashboard.
Privacy, stated plainly
JessChat is not end-to-end encrypted. Traffic between your device and our servers is encrypted in transit, and data is encrypted at rest, but messages are stored in a form our servers can read. That is what lets them reach your other devices and the people you send them to.
We say so here rather than leaving it to the policy, because implying more protection than exists would change what you choose to send. If you need end-to-end encryption, JessChat does not currently provide it.
- No location, no contacts, no ad identifier. JessChat finds people by username and never reads your phone's address book.
- No third-party analytics or advertising SDK. We do not build an advertising profile of you, and we do not sell data.
- Your data is used to run the service. What we keep and why is listed in full in the policy.
- You can delete your account whenever you want. It happens immediately, and it cannot be undone.
Your account stays yours
End a session on a device you do not recognise, block anyone you do not want to hear from, and delete your account from the app or from here. Deleting does not need the app installed.