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Silk is spun from countless threads, each fragile alone, yet woven together they become unbreakable. For centuries, secrets traveled the Silk Road: messages carried not by one path, but by many.
A messaging app that weaves connections the way silk weaves threads.
Kinu is encrypted messaging that doesn't depend on cell towers, WiFi, or any single point of failure. When the internet goes dark, Kinu keeps you connected through a mesh of nearby devices.
The Moment You'll Need This
You're three miles from the trailhead.
No signal. Your group split up an hour ago. With any other app, you'd be shouting into the wind. With Kinu, your message hops from phone to phone until it reaches them, even if they're a mile away.
When Infrastructure Fails
The power's been out for six hours.
Cell towers are down. Your family is across town. Everyone's checking their phones, hoping for a miracle. Kinu users are the miracle. Their devices form a network that doesn't need infrastructure.
When Networks Overload
50,000 people are trying to text at once.
The festival. The protest. The game. Cell towers buckle under the load. But Kinu doesn't care. It routes around the chaos, device to device, finding a path when there shouldn't be one.
When Privacy Matters
You just want a private conversation.
No scanning for ads. No metadata harvesting. No backdoors for governments. Not because we promise, but because it's mathematically impossible. We can't read your messages. Nobody can, except the person you sent them to.
How It Works
Your message finds a way.
Messages hop from device to device until they reach their destination.
Bluetooth Mesh
When offline, Kinu uses Bluetooth to find nearby devices. Your message jumps up to 10 hops to reach its destination.
Cloud When Available
With internet, Kinu works like any modern messenger. Fast, reliable, synced across devices. Built on the Matrix protocol.
Seamless Switching
You never think about it. Kinu automatically picks the best path. Your conversation stays unified.
End-to-End Encrypted
Every message is encrypted before it leaves your device. Even relay phones can't read a word.
The Difference
Not another chat app.
Other messengers
- ✕ Need cell towers or WiFi
- ✕ Scan messages for ads
- ✕ Harvest metadata about who you talk to
- ✕ Fail during emergencies
- ✕ Closed source. "Trust us."
Kinu
- ✓ Works like a normal messenger when you have signal
- ✓ Keeps working when infrastructure fails
- ✓ Can't read your messages. By design.
- ✓ Minimal metadata, encrypted when possible
- ✓ Open source. Verify it yourself.
Trust Through Transparency
Don't trust us. Verify.
Kinu is open source. Every line of code is public. Security researchers, cryptographers, and curious developers can audit exactly how your messages are protected. Privacy claims mean nothing without proof.
Be part of something different.
Kinu is launching soon on iOS and Android. Join the early access list.
© 2026 Kinu Foundation. Open source under Apache 2.0.