People who run a group
Your running club, your year group, your games night. One announcement channel, as many group chats as the thing needs, and nothing posted twice.
People & Community · Social messenger
Rindit
Your feed and your group chats, in one app.
Rindit is a social network with a messenger built in, where any conversation — including a group chat — can be switched to end-to-end encryption. Every other app made you choose: a messenger where the social part is decoration, or a social network with a messenger nobody would pick on its own. So the group you actually belong to ends up in two places, and half of it never sees the half that matters. Rindit is one app because the people are the same people. Your feed is the things that can wait. Your chats are the things that cannot.
Invitation-only testing · iPhone app awaiting Apple review
Who it is for
For the group you actually belong to
Anyone split across two apps
The announcements live in one app and the conversation in another, so half the group misses the half that matters. Here the feed and the chat are the same place.
People who want a feed that is not ranked
Your timeline shows what friends posted in the order they posted it. The thing you scrolled past yesterday is still where you left it.
Why Rindit
The messenger is the good one
Encrypted group chats
Not just one-to-one. Switch on end-to-end encryption for a whole group, and the conversation is sealed on the devices in it — only the people in the group can read it.
Leaving actually means leaving
When somebody leaves an encrypted group, the key changes, so they cannot read what is said afterwards. Almost no app explains this, and fewer do it.
One app instead of two
Announcements, the group chat and the feed in one place, so a group stops being split between an app for talking and an app for telling.
A timeline nothing ranks
Posts appear when they were posted. Stories, clips, channels and suggestions sit in trays you can scroll sideways — and turn off for good, which means off.
Free, and your conversations stay out of the ads
No paid tier and nothing held back. You will see ads, but they are never targeted using your messages, who you talk to, or which groups you are in.
No password to steal
Sign in with your phone number or email and a passcode sent to it. Nothing to reuse, leak or be phished out of you — and a registration lock guards your number.
How it works
From the early list to your group
Join the early list
Leave an email address on rindit.com. You get one message, when you can actually sign in — not a newsletter.
Sign in without a password
Use your phone number or email address and the passcode sent to it. Outside the United States, use an email address.
Bring your group across
Start a community with an announcement channel and the group chats it needs, and share an invite link. Groups hold up to 100 people.
Switch on encryption where it matters
Turn on end-to-end encryption for any conversation, one-to-one or group. The key rotates whenever someone leaves.
Post to the feed, talk in the chats
The things that can wait go on the feed; the things that cannot go in the chat. Nothing has to be posted twice.
A messenger with nothing missing
Everything you would expect, and a few things you would not
- Messages that arrive in order
- Groups up to 100 people
- Invite links, admins and pinned messages
- Disappearing messages, edits and retraction
- Polls, voice notes and replies
- Stories deleted after a day
- Vertical clips up to 90 seconds
- Communities with an announcement channel
- All your channels on one screen
- Registration lock
What encryption does, and what it does not
Rindit says this up front rather than in a footnote, and so do we. Encryption is set per conversation and you switch it on, so most messages are not encrypted until you do. Encryption hides what was said — never that it was said. An encrypted conversation is out of reach because it cannot be read; the promise that ads never use your conversations is a policy Rindit intends to keep, and one that cannot be checked from outside.
Where it is right now
Rindit is built and it works, but it is not open to the public yet: the iPhone app is uploaded and awaiting Apple's review, and testing is by invitation in the meantime. You can also open Rindit in a browser. There is no Android version, and none is being written.
Pricing
What it costs
Rindit
Freepaid for by advertising
- All messaging
- All encryption, including groups
- The whole social side
- No paid tier, no limits that lift
Every part of Rindit is free: all the messaging, all the encryption and the whole social side. There is no paid tier and nothing held back to sell you later. It is paid for by advertising, and the ads are never targeted using your messages, who you talk to, or which groups you are in.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is Rindit?
Rindit is a social network with a messenger built in. Your feed and your group chats live in one app, and any conversation, including a group chat, can be switched to end-to-end encryption.
Are Rindit group chats end-to-end encrypted?
They can be. You switch on end-to-end encryption per conversation, and that works for group chats as well as one-to-one, which most messaging apps cannot do. Conversations are not encrypted until you turn it on.
What happens when someone leaves an encrypted Rindit group?
The encryption key changes. A person who leaves cannot read anything said in the group afterwards.
Is the Rindit feed ranked by an algorithm?
Your timeline is not ranked: posts appear in the order they were made. The one ranked screen is the vertical clips feed, and Rindit says so, because short video is unwatchable in posting order.
How much does Rindit cost?
Rindit is free, with no paid tier and nothing held back. It is paid for by advertising, and ads are never targeted using your messages, who you talk to, or which groups you are in.
Does Rindit need a password?
No. You sign in with your phone number or email address and a passcode sent to it. Outside the United States, use an email address. A registration lock stops a texted passcode alone from claiming your account on a new phone.
Can I use Rindit now?
Not publicly yet. The iPhone app is built and awaiting Apple's review, and testing is by invitation in the meantime. Join the early list on rindit.com to get one email when it opens.
Is there a Rindit app for Android?
No. There is an iPhone app and Rindit works in a browser, but there is no Android version and none is being written.
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