// no identity collection
Username and password. That's it. No email verification. No phone number. No SMS code. No tracking pixel. Nothing tying your account to a real-world identity.
Real privacy. Real ownership. No compromise. Sign in with a username — no email, no phone, no tracking. Self-host the whole platform, or use the live one. Either way, your conversations belong to you.
Most chat platforms demand your phone number, harvest your contacts, and store every message on servers you'll never see. NOX takes the opposite approach. Sign up with a username. Recover your account with a phrase only you know. And if you want, run the entire platform on your own machine.
Username and password. That's it. No email verification. No phone number. No SMS code. No tracking pixel. Nothing tying your account to a real-world identity.
Lose your password? Use the six-word phrase you saved at signup. No support tickets. No identity proofs. No data held hostage.
Run the whole platform on a single PC for a friend group, a guild, or a small community. Your hardware. Your rules. No cloud. No vendor lock-in.
Servers, channels, direct messages, voice channels, threads, replies, reactions, custom emoji, search, attachments, presence, typing indicators. Nothing missing.
No telemetry. No backdoors. No silent uploads. The platform does what it says it does — nothing more, nothing less.
Built by one developer with a single vision. No committee design. No feature creep. No quarterly metrics driving the roadmap. Every choice intentional.
Same interface, same features, three surfaces. Pick whichever fits your workflow.
Open NOX in any modern browser. No install. Works on any device with a screen.
Native window for Windows. System tray, auto-start, native notifications, auto-updates. Mac and Linux builds are on the way.
Push notifications. Photo upload. Swipe gestures. Designed for the small screen.
Designed to run on a single PC for up to about 50 concurrent users — friends, a guild, a small community. Backed by SQLite, served by Express, deployed in one command. No cloud. No third parties. No vendors.
$ git clone <repo>
$ cd nox-chat-app
$ npm install
$ npm run db:migrate
$ npm run db:seed
$ npm run dev # opens on http://localhost:5173