Connect freely
Nothing between you and them
One server. One owner. No advertising network deciding what a conversation is worth.
Where a message goes
Two hops, not seven
Most messengers route a conversation past everything that pays for them. Blackbird has nothing to pay for, so there is nothing on the way.
What it is
Built for a circle, not for scale
Most messengers are free because you are not the customer. Blackbird is free because it is one person's work, on one machine, with nothing to sell.
Nothing is sold
No advertising, no profiling, no broker.
No tracking SDK
Nothing in the app reports back on how you use it.
Permissions on demand
Asked for at the moment they are needed, never before.
Updates inside
New versions arrive and install themselves.
The limit
No end-to-end encryption
Messages are encrypted in transit and readable on the server. Whoever runs that server can technically read them.
That belongs on the front page, not buried on one nobody opens. What is actually protected.