Write, send a voice note, call — camera on if you like. All tied to your phone number. And what you say doesn't stay: a read message disappears after thirty minutes, for you and for the person who got it.
Works in the browser too, nothing to install. The app adds ringing with the screen off.
Everything you've written over the years still sits on someone else's phone. Ops Chat does the opposite: messages live short lives, and when they end they are deleted on the server — not just hidden on your screen. That goes for text, voice notes, photos and videos.
The life of a read message: reading starts the countdown, and when it runs out the message is gone.
The ceiling for unread messages: no message lives longer just because nobody opened it.
There is one message, not two copies: when it dies, it dies for you and for the person who got it. Nothing to export, nothing to fear.
Ticks tell you it arrived and it was read — and reading starts the countdown.
Hold to talk; slide up to lock the recording. Play them back up to three times faster.
Built into the chat. And if your networks can't see each other, the voice goes through our relay: the call goes through anyway.
With the Android app the call comes in even with the screen off: it rings, you answer with a swipe. Like a real phone call.
No usernames to invent: on Ops Chat you are your number, like in a phone book — whoever writes to you sees it, and you see theirs. The first time, you prove the number with an SMS code, and from then on the chat is yours.