Frequently Asked Questions

The Basics

OffGrid is a private, secure messaging app that doesn’t store any messages or metadata–leaving no digital footprint.

Your chats are completely untraceable. Your true identity is never revealed.

OffGrid gets you as close to an in-person conversation as humanly possible and technically feasible, digitally, while remaining practically usable.

An alias ID and password—that’s it.

You can change your alias ID anytime, and when you do, the old one gets wiped from our servers like it never existed.

  • No messages are stored—ever. Once you leave a chat, the messages disappear for good.
  • Only real-time chats are possible between online users.
  • No access to your camera, location, or contacts.
  • Our Killswitch deletes your entire profile instantly, wipes your data from our servers and your device, and closes the app.
  • Since both users must be online to add each other as contacts and online statuses are not visible, no spam is possible.

    • While other apps might encrypt your data, OffGrid skips collecting it in the first place.

Let’s test that claim:

1. Can you send a message to someone who’s offline? If yes, that message is sitting somewhere.
2. Can you see old messages after leaving a chat? If yes, they’re being stored.

OffGrid doesn’t play those games.

Only your alias ID and password, both encrypted. That’s it.

  • No personal data, metadata, or app activity gets logged or stored.
  • Your contacts stay encrypted on your device, and we can’t access them.

We don’t do password recovery since we don’t store personal data. If you forget it, you’ll need to start fresh with a new account.

Pro tip: Write your password down somewhere safe.

No. Your contacts live on your device and stay there.

To show contacts on multiple devices, apps have to store them on servers which OffGrid does not do.

OffGrid is for anyone who needs private, secure, untraceable, and anonymous communication–people who handle sensitive information or are required to maintain confidentiality. This includes:

  • Senior management, business owners, entrepreneurs, boards of directors
  • Venture capitalists and angel investors
  • Financial professionals, traders and market analysts
  • Cybersecurity professionals
  • Legal professionals
  • Medical professionals
  • Influential individuals and celebrities
  • Educators, researchers, and scientists
  • Government and law enforcement officials
  • Family and friends seeking truly private conversations

OffGrid ensures secure, untraceable communication for anyone who values privacy and security.

Comparisons

Snapchat says it deletes messages, but it collects and stores some of the most extensive metadata of any social app, including:

  • Profile info: Name, phone number, email, date of birth, all which link to your personal identity.
  • Usage: Friends lists, chat partners, snap streaks, and story views.
  • Activity: Search history, filters used, ads viewed.
  • Cookies and tracking from linked apps.

Snapchat keeps data for business purposes and can share it with advertisers, business partners, or in response to external demands for disclosure.

OffGrid doesn’t store messages or metadata—period. Messages vanish as soon as you leave the chat, leaving no trail. No personally identifiable information is collected, allowing you to maintain anonymity.

Since OffGrid doesn’t collect data in the first place, there is nothing to share. Whatever limited and minimally required data we do have does not link back to your personal identity.

Signal is a great app for privacy, but it still collects some metadata, including phone numbers and timestamps. Here’s how OffGrid stands apart:

  • No phone numbers or emails: OffGrid only requires an alias ID and password. Signal needs your phone number for registration, which links back to your real identity.
  • No stored messages: Signal temporarily stores messages on its servers if the recipient is offline and permanently on the device unless you enable disappearing messages. OffGrid never stores messages—on servers or devices.
  • No contact syncing: Signal scans your phone’s contacts to find other users, while OffGrid does not have access to your phone’s contacts. Your OffGrid contacts (added through the app) are encrypted and stored only on your device.

OffGrid takes privacy one step further by collecting no metadata at all, making it impossible to trace your activity.

While Telegram offers encryption, OffGrid prioritizes privacy in every aspect. Here’s the difference:

  • No phone numbers: Telegram requires a phone number for account setup; OffGrid doesn’t.
  • No message storage: Telegram stores messages on its servers by default, while OffGrid erases messages as soon as you exit a chat.
  • Contact privacy: Telegram syncs and stores your contacts on its servers, while OffGrid keeps them encrypted locally on your device.
  • Encryption: Telegram encrypts messages only in Secret Chats, whereas OffGrid ensures all messages are fully end-to-end encrypted.

OffGrid’s approach eliminates data collection entirely, making it the go-to choice for ultimate privacy.

With OffGrid, messages exist only in your phone’s temporary cache. Once you exit the chat or close the app, they’re wiped completely. Nothing stays on our servers or your device, except your encrypted alias ID and password for authentication.

WhatsApp stores messages, even disappearing ones, on Meta’s servers. That data is shared with advertisers, other Meta companies like instagram, Facebook and Threads, and is known to be regularly shared with external agents.

OffGrid is designed for those who want protection from predatory algorithms, exploitative data mining practices, maximum privacy and zero data collection.

Security

OffGrid’s end-to-end encryption is just as strong as Signal, WhatsApp and other big, familiar names.

What makes OffGrid different? We don’t store messages or metadata. This means your chats stay completely anonymous and secure—no data, no trail, no worries

Even on end-to-end encrypted platforms (like WhatsApp), metadata—such as communication times, IP addresses, and locations—remains unencrypted and can reveal a lot about a user’s social network, habits, and location patterns.

This data can often be as revealing as the actual message content itself, allowing third parties to analyze who you interact with, when, and from where.

This information is then exploited for commercial benefit or intrusive, unethical surveillance.

OffGrid minimizes metadata collection to an alias ID and password, ensuring your communications remain private and untraceable.

Whatever metadata is generated to execute required operations, such as routing a message to the correct recipient, is automatically deleted once the operation is complete. All files (such as photos, videos or documents) are stripped of all their metadata before being sent.