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Talk
Reply to a message or open a thread from it. React, run a poll, use your own emoji and stickers, and play sounds from the server's soundboard.
- Replies
- Threads
- Reactions
- Polls
- Emoji and stickers
- Soundboard
Your group chat, encrypted end to end.
ILLESTâ„¢ is servers and DMs, voice and screen sharing, a wallet and a page of your own. Every message is encrypted on your device, so the server only ever holds ciphertext.
illest.world/yourname
Create your accountFree to use, and nothing to install.
End-to-end encrypted, MLS (RFC 9420)
ILLEST in numbers
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Sealed on your device. Opened only on theirs.
Everything a conversation needs.
Reply or open a thread , react, run a poll, drop in files, each sealed with a key of its own, and set a conversation to disappear.
Forums for every topic, your own emoji and stickers, a soundboard, and search that runs on your device: the server could not search your messages if it wanted to.
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Files
Drop files anywhere in the conversation. Each one is sealed with a key made for that one file before it leaves your device, and a sound draws its waveform.
- Up to 10 files a message
- Larger files with Elite
- Waveforms for sounds
Drop to attach
- set-list.pdf2.1 MB
- rehearsal.wav38 MB
- poster-final-v3.png6.4 MB
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Forums
A channel where every topic is a post with a title and tags, shown as a list or a gallery. Each post's title, its words and the tags it wears are sealed.
- 20 tags a forum
- 5 a post
- List or gallery
- Pin, lock or close a post
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Disappearing
Set a conversation's messages to delete themselves: after an hour, a day, a month, or any number of hours up to a year.
- 1 hour
- 8 hours
- 24 hours
- 7 days
- 30 days
- Your own
- Off
- 1 h
- 8 h
- 24 h
- 7 d
- 30 d
- see you at nine
- bring the cables
- ok who has the key
05
Your search, on your device
Search reads only what your device has decrypted. The server could not search your messages if it wanted to.
- Ctrl F
- Runs on this device
tripCtrl F
- fri dinner, 8pm
- movie night list
- lake trip?? july
On this device
Servers, the way you know them.
For a crew, a community or a few friends. Every channel is encrypted the way a DM is.
owner1 person
Everything, the server itself included.
mods3 people
Time people out, slow a channel, manage messages and read the audit log.
regulars41 people
Talk, call, share a screen and open a room of their own.
newcomers12 people
Given on the way in, with the welcome the server wrote.
Six kinds of channel
Text, voice, stages, forums, announcements and, once boosted, a shop.
Rooms of your own
Join a door and get a room under it, gone 20 seconds after it empties.
Welcomes without a bot
Up to 10 welcome lines and 5 roles given to newcomers as they arrive.
Moderation
Timeouts from 60 seconds to a week, slowmode, 100 people's roles at once, an audit log.
Join a voice channel and you are in. Share a screen or a window and each person chooses to watch: until they press Watch, your picture is not decrypted on their device.
Encrypted on your device
Voice and screen are sealed on your device before they leave it. The server relays them and cannot open them.
Relayed, never direct
Calls are relayed, not peer to peer, so nobody in a call gets your IP address from it.
Stages
A few people speak, everyone else listens.
The controls you expect
Mute, deafen, push to talk, and a volume for each person.
A page that is all yours.
Build a public page on a canvas. Start from a template, drag in blocks, give each its own frame, depth, effects and motion.
ice.illest.oneMade on ILLEST by the person it belongs to, and live at this address. 
MonolithA tall black block with a body you can see the side of, turning wherever the pointer is. 
HologramA glass ID card with a sheen that follows the pointer and a number printed on it. 
DeckThree cards dealt at different heights, you in the middle. Placed by hand, so it never reflows. 
ArcadeA glowing cabinet on a curved tube: a boot screen, a clock to the next level, buttons to press. 
VinylYour track as a record turning above its sleeve, with the sound drawn round it in a ring. 
KeysYour name typed out in large letters, and your links as a row of keycaps with real travel. 
DioramaCut paper stood up in layers: a far backdrop, you in front of it, the words on a card nearest. 
PrismIridescent type over a deep ramp, with a portrait that turns and links edged in light. 
RackYour track read by nine instruments in a rack, each unit bolted in at its own depth. 
StackPanes of smoked glass, each holding its parts as tiles that stand off it at their own height. 
LetterpressA letter set in a serif on warm paper, flush to the left of the page. Nothing glows, nothing loops. 
IndexA numbered grid across the whole window: a huge name, a thick red rule, and everything in columns. 
ZineA photocopied cut-and-paste page: a torn-out title, a sticker, a taped-down clip and a wall of prints. 
PosterA gig poster the size of the window: a loop behind huge type, the track, the night's photos, and rain. 
ToyboxA shelf of toys: a picture that bobs, a name that pops in, and stickers that do what they say. 
LightspeedA glass card in a rush of stars that lean toward the pointer, part around it, and ring out from a press.
Your page is at illest.world/yourname, and with a subscription at yourname.illest.one.
Your names. Your money. Your page.
Your names. Your money.
Hold more than one username, sell names and items for USDC, and pay from a wallet only you hold.
- Ethereum
- Base
- Arbitrum
- Optimism
- Polygon
- Solana
- Bitcoin
mothlampwhat do i owe u for last night
kaiyosent u a request
Asked you forSolana
42 USDC
dinner, your half
7kQmX4dYw2Ph9Rt3sLc8VbN5aJe6Fz1GuK2oMqWy9xTeCheck the address against something other than this message.
Paid 42 USDC on Solana
Your deviceThe key stays here
- Unlocked hereYour wallet password opens the key on this device. It is not your account's password.
- Signed hereThe key signs this one transfer on your device. It is not sent to ILLEST.
ILLEST's serverNo key here
- Carried, not changedILLEST's server passes the signed transfer on to Solana. It holds no key, so it can carry it but never change it or spend.
The conversationBoth of you see it
- PaidA note that it was paid goes into the conversation, for both of you.
The people, the amounts and the addresses are made up.
Auctions, with ILLEST in the middle
Put an item, a role or a username up for auction and nobody has to trust a stranger. Every bid is paid to ILLEST and held there. Outbid, yours comes back in full at once. When the auction ends, ILLEST pays the seller and the winner gets what they won, as if they had bought it.
Names
Up to two usernames, five with a subscription, each in a colour, typeface and effects you choose. A name that changes hands is marked as new.
Market
A boosted server opens a shop and sells items and roles. Usernames sell in the ILLEST server's shop, paid in USDC on Solana.
Wallet
Made on your device from a recovery phrase only you have, with a password of its own. ILLEST cannot spend from it or recover it.
In a browser, anything that can run code on the page can reach an unlocked wallet, so keep everyday amounts there. The desktop app keeps the wallet's keys and signs in its own process, so the screen asks for a signature and is never handed the key that made it. The words of your recovery phrase do pass through the screen: when you create a wallet, when you import one, and when you ask to see them.
ILLEST, installed.
The same ILLEST in a window of its own, with its code built in.
Its code is its own
In a browser, the page's code comes from the server each time, so whoever runs the server could change it. The desktop app carries its code inside the app.
Your key, in the keychain
Your device's key is kept in your system keychain and used by the app's own process. What that does not cover is set out under Messages.
For your computer
The button gives you the build for the computer you are on. Every build the release has is listed under it: Windows, a Mac, Linux.
Your name is waiting.
Type the name you want. If it is free, carry it into sign-up. Free to use, and nothing to install.
illest.world/yourname
Create your accountSealed on your device
Free to use