Getting started
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Create your account
Open Wivo and tap Create account. Wivo gives you 12 secret words — that is your account. No phone number, no email. Pick a name and a username and you're in.
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Keep your 12 words safe
Your 12 words are the only way back into your account. Save them in your password manager (iCloud Keychain or Google Password Manager) or write them down. Never share them — Wivo will never ask for them.
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Secure your account
From your chats, open Secure your account to add an optional PIN, an optional recovery email, and an optional phone number so friends who have your number can find you.
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Find friends
Share your username or your QR code, or let Wivo check which of your contacts use Wivo. Friends who saved each other's numbers are connected automatically; everyone else gets a friend request first.
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Start a chat
Tap a friend and say hi. Every message, photo, voice note and call is end-to-end encrypted from the first word.
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Verify a contact
In a chat, open the contact's profile → Safety number. Scan each other's QR code. If the numbers match, nobody is in the middle.
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Sign in on a new phone
Tap Sign in, type your 12 words, then your PIN if you set one. Message history is not restored — by design, your old messages never leave your old phone.
Account & sign-in
8 featuresYour account is 12 words. No phone number is needed to sign up or sign in.
Anonymous signup with a username
Pick your own username or let Wivo suggest one.
12-word secret phrase
Your account key. View, copy or check it any time in Settings → Security.
Optional PIN
An extra lock for signing in on a new phone. Reset by recovery email or after a waiting period.
Optional recovery email
Add, change or remove it. Wivo warns you that an email makes you less anonymous.
Account recovery
Recover with your username and email code. A waiting period protects you, and a “Not me” alert lets you cancel a recovery you didn't start.
Optional find-me phone number
Lets friends who have your number find you. Stored as a keyed hash, never used to sign in, removable any time.
Age check
Wivo is for people 13 and older.
Profile setup
Name, username and photo — change them whenever you like.
Chats
30 featuresEverything you need to talk, all end-to-end encrypted.
One-to-one chats
Reply and quote
Forward
Copy
Edit sent messages
Edited messages show an “edited” label.
Delete for me / delete for everyone
Deleted messages leave a small placeholder.
Pin messages
Saved Messages
Keep important messages in your own private space.
Emoji reactions
With an animated reaction picker.
Mark a message as sensitive
It stays blurred until tapped.
Translate a message
On your phone, nothing is sent to a server.
Search inside a chat
Message search
Jump to message
Disappearing messages
From seconds up to a year, including “after viewing”. They vanish from both phones.
Scheduled messages and calls
Send later, with repeat.
Voice messages
With live waveform and auto-play of the next voice message.
Link previews
Built by your phone, never by our server. Can be turned off.
Paste suggestions
“Read more” for long messages
Big emoji
Emoji-only messages are shown large.
Read receipts
Optional.
Typing and recording indicators
Online and last seen
You choose who can see them.
Clear chat
Report a chat or message
Friend-request lock
Strangers can't flood you: new chats start with a request and a single message. Say hi with a quick “wave”.
Share a contact
Share your location
Sealed inside the encrypted message.
Dangerous file warning
Wivo warns you before opening risky document types.
Chat list
12 featuresYour home screen, organised your way.
Pin chats
Archive chats
With an Archived filter.
Mute chats
Block from the list
Delete chats
Select many chats at once
Filters
All, Unread, Archived, Groups, Saved and Requests.
Keep muted chats archived
Search chats, contacts and people
Message requests inbox
Accept, block or delete messages from people you don't know.
Join a live group call from the list
Stories row
Reorder the stories at the top of your chats.
Photos, videos & files
15 featuresShare in full quality — encrypted before upload.
Gallery picker
Select many photos and videos at once.
Albums
Send several photos as one album.
Files and documents
PDF and Word documents.
Caption before sending
Image editor
Draw freehand, arrows, lines, boxes and circles; add text; undo and redo.
Crop
Video editor
Trim before sending.
View-once media
Opens once, then it's gone.
Save to gallery
Full-screen viewer
With quick reply and video controls.
Upload progress
Wivo Capture camera
Camera with creative lenses and AR photos.
Stickers
Sticker picker, your own sticker collection and the Wivo Express pack.
Sensitive media filter
Blurs explicit images and videos.
Location removed from videos
Hidden GPS and camera details are stripped before sending.
Groups & channels
17 featuresGroups for your people, channels for your audience.
Create a group
Create a channel
Group photo
Public or private groups
Announcement-only mode
Only admins can post.
Permissions
Choose who can send, share media and add members.
Roles
Owner, super-admin, admin, moderator, member and guest.
Promote, demote, remove
Ban and unban
With a banned-members list.
Add members
Edit name and description
Leave or block a group
Group disappearing messages
Member list and search
@mentions
With mention notifications.
Membership notices
See who joined, left or changed role.
Encrypted group messages
Members read it; anyone outside the group gets noise.
Calls
16 featuresVoice and video calls, end-to-end encrypted.
Voice calls
Encrypted end to end, with signed key fingerprints checked on both sides.
Video calls
Mute, speaker and camera flip
Noise suppression
Switch a voice call to video
Add a person to a call
Picture-in-picture
Keep talking while you use other apps.
Minimised call banner
Group calls
Every audio and video frame is encrypted before it reaches the media server.
Invite people to a group call
Host controls
Mute or remove participants.
Ask someone to turn on their camera
“Live” group call alerts
Call history
With filters and missed-call badges. Select and delete entries.
Always relay calls
Hides your IP address from the person you call.
Encrypted badge
Shown only after the connection is verified, with a warning if it can't be.
Stories
19 featuresMoments that disappear after 24 hours — encrypted end to end.
Photo and video stories
Text stories
Voice stories
Story editor
Post many at once
With a caption for each.
Choose your audience
Everyone, friends, only you, or selected friends.
Visibility duration
Allow or turn off comments
Viewers
See who watched.
Likes and Sparks
Text and voice comments
Reply in chat
Share a story with friends
Download or delete your story
Report a story
Hide or mute someone's stories
Saved stories
Kept encrypted.
Story archive
Story layouts
Frosted Peek, Tiles, Timeline, Orbs, Day Dial, Dock and Filmstrip.
Privacy & security
17 featuresPrivacy isn't a setting in Wivo — it's the default.
End-to-end encryption
Double Ratchet with a post-quantum key exchange (X25519 + ML-KEM) for one-to-one chats.
Sealed sender
One-to-one messages arrive in a sealed envelope; the server doesn't record who sent them.
Silent notifications
Alerts say only “New message” — no names, no text.
Last seen, profile photo, about
Choose who can see each.
Online status and read receipts
Turn them off any time.
Who can message or call me
Blocked users
Screenshot alerts
Know when someone captures your chat (and screen recording on iPhone).
Screenshot blocking on Android
Can be allowed per your choice.
App lock
PIN or Face ID / fingerprint.
Single-session mode
Only one phone signed in at a time.
Security notifications
Recent logins
Safety numbers
Scan a QR code or compare 60 digits.
Key change notice
Wivo tells you when a contact's security key changes.
Key transparency
Identity keys are checked against a public log.
Encrypted key backup
Protected by your 12 words and your optional PIN.
Notifications
8 featuresHear what matters, keep the rest quiet.
Message, group, story and friend notifications
Haptics
Do Not Disturb schedule
Preview options
Name and message, name only, or nothing.
In-app notifications
Per-chat mute
For a while or forever.
Per-chat sound, vibration and mentions
Activity centre
Look & feel
8 featuresMake Wivo yours.
Themes
Light, Dark and Wivo.
Accent colour
Automatic dark mode
On a schedule.
Per-chat colours
Bubble styles
Sun, Snow, Glass and more.
Wallpapers
Photo or colour, dimmed in dark mode.
Typing indicator styles
Ink, Ghost, Rhythm, Avatar, Blur and Wivo.
Voice message and timer styles
Storage & data
7 featuresControl how much data Wivo uses.
Network usage
Auto-download
Separately for mobile data and Wi-Fi.
Use less data
Including during calls.
Data alerts
Background data
Clear or delete all chats
Battery tips
Help your phone ring reliably.
Profile & friends
11 featuresEdit profile
Username availability check
QR “Add me” code
QR scanner
With torch and scan-from-photo.
Friends list
Friend requests
Contacts
See which contacts use Wivo.
Contact profile
Shared photos, voice notes and files in one place.
Profile views
Opt-in only.
Help centre
Delete account
Only on Wivo
13 featuresThings you won't find anywhere else.
Hidden Drop
Leave a message or story locked to a place on the map.
The hunt
Follow cold, warm, hot to find it. It unlocks only inside the zone.
Zone size and expiry
Small, medium or large zones, with a photo and an expiry.
Fake-location detection
Gifts on the map
Pick who can open it, the radius and the expiry, and get a receipt when it's opened.
Send a story as a gift
Memory Map
Pin your memories to places, with exact, city or country precision. Backed up encrypted.
“Years ago here”
Wivo reminds you of memories from the place you're standing.
Travel stamps
Collect stamps and track your world progress.
Live translation
On your phone, in 59 languages plus Kurdish Badînî. Translate what you send, or always translate a chat.
Sticker maker
Turn any photo into a sticker, or make animated clip stickers.
Share into Wivo
From any other app.
Kurmanji in Arabic script
Languages & accessibility
4 features47 app languages
Including Kurdish Kurmanji, Sorani and Arabic-script Kurdish.
Follow device language
Right-to-left support
Everywhere, including stories.
Screen reader labels
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