LushPash

Messages and calls that stay yours.

LushPash is a messenger for Android and iPhone. Chat, send voice notes, call by voice or video, and keep up with your groups.

Your messages, photos, voice notes, files and calls are end-to-end encrypted. Only the people you send them to can open them. We cannot.

In private testing. Public release coming.

Your own bubbles change colour as a message moves on: sent, delivered, read.

What it does

The short version. More detail will follow nearer the public release.

  1. Private by design

    Messages, photos, voice notes, files and calls are encrypted on your phone and decrypted only on the phones of the people you send them to. You can compare safety numbers with them, in person or by QR code.

  2. Voice and video calls

    One to one, or with a whole group.

  3. Messages that go when you want them to

    Set messages to disappear after they are read, a few seconds after opening, when you leave the chat, or after a time you choose. Photos, videos and voice notes can be sent to be viewed once.

  4. Invisible Mode

    Nobody sees you online, typing, or when you were last seen. It is fair both ways, so you do not see theirs either.

  5. Locked and hidden chats

    Put a chat behind a PIN, Face ID or fingerprint. Or hide it from the chat list altogether.

  6. A Lush number

    A ten-digit number of your own to share with people, in place of your phone number.

  7. Straight talk about screenshots

    On Android, screenshots are blocked in chats you protect. On iPhone they cannot be blocked, so the other person is told instead.

  8. And the everyday things

    Replies and reactions. Messages scheduled to send later. Translation that happens on your phone. More than one device linked to your account.

What we can and cannot see

A messenger has to hold some things to work. Here is the outline.

We cannot see

  • Your messages, photos, videos, voice notes and files.
  • Your calls. We keep a record that a call happened, never what was said.
  • Your address book. If you ask the app to find friends, numbers are checked and not kept.

We keep

  • Your phone number, stored as a keyed hash, to create your account and send sign-in codes.
  • Your profile, shown to others according to your privacy settings.
  • Anything you post publicly. Public statuses and public channel posts are not end-to-end encrypted.

Ads and tracking

No ads. No tracking.

We do not sell your data or share it with data brokers.

Where things stand

In private testing with friends and family.

LushPash runs on Android and iPhone today, for a small group of testers. It is not in the app stores yet. A public release will follow.