60-word description.
NOX is a privacy-first chat app for ongoing communities—servers, channels, voice rooms, and direct messages—without requiring a phone number, email, or cross-app identifier. It is built and run by one developer, has no behavioural advertising, and is developing a Signal Protocol direct-message layer alongside a future self-hosting system.
One line
“The chat app that doesn’t ask for your phone number.”
Major V4 brand direction.
Shroud replaces the older cyan/orange terminal-first landing direction with deep purple, smoke, darkness, mystery, a rotating wireframe globe, and the hooded NOX figure. The underlying product remains technical; the entry experience is now calmer, clearer, and conversion-led.
Primary accent
Mystic purple · default #8b5cf6
Background
Near-black violet · #050510
Mark
NOX wordmark and hooded central figure.
Voice
Direct, honest, minimal, technically precise.
Claims that can be used.
- Privacy-first community chat with servers, channels, voice rooms, and DMs.
- No required phone number or email for normal signup.
- No behavioural advertising or sold user profiles.
- Built and maintained by one developer.
- Signal Protocol DM encryption is implemented but not currently enabled.
Verify before publishing
- Current platform/store availability and build number.
- User counts and performance numbers.
- Encryption feature-flag status.
- Funding and organizational status.
- Current third-party service list.
Contact.
Press, quotes, product tours, and factual checks: [email protected].