Yonder
Get Yonder
Talk where there's no signal.
Yonder sends messages, photos and voice notes from phone to phone over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct. No internet, no account, no phone number. Other Yonder phones carry your message onward, sealed, until it reaches the person it's for.
For Android 7.0 or newer. Free, with no ads.
What's in it
Chats and groups
One to one or the whole group, with replies, reactions and read ticks.
Photos, voice notes, files
Under 101 MB through the mesh; bigger ones straight over Wi-Fi Direct.
Maps that work offline
Share where you are; saved maps work without internet.
Check-ins and SOS
Send "I'm safe", or an SOS that more phones carry, even into a muted chat.
See who's near
A radar of who is within reach, and how strong.
Hidden and locked
Go Hidden and your name is never broadcast. Lock a chat with a PIN.
Nothing about you goes to us
No accounts, and no server between you and your friends. Messages are encrypted end to end: only the person they're for can read them, and the phones that carry them hold sealed copies.
No ads, no analytics. The internet is used only while you're online, for the map (map pictures, by itself too around you and around locations shared with you, and places you search for) and to ask this site once a day whether a new version is out, sending nothing about you (you can turn that off). Those services, and Cloudflare, which carries this site's traffic, see your internet address; the map services also see which areas are downloaded. Privacy policy
What it can't do
- Reach someone when there's no Yonder phone anywhere between you. Your phone keeps trying for 7 days.
- Call or text phone numbers, or message people on other apps. Yonder talks only to Yonder.
- Replace emergency services. An SOS alerts the people you chose, through Yonder phones; it doesn't call for help.
- Run on iPhone. Yonder is for Android.
Get Yonder
Install it before you go, on every phone in your group. Already have it? Settings, Share Yonder passes it on, phone to phone.