Frequently asked questions

A temporary, location-based group chat. The map is the app — instead of browsing a list of chats, you see conversations happening around you right now, and you can only join ones your current location is actually inside. Once the conversation goes quiet, it fades on its own.

There’s no permanent group to create, manage, or leave later. A chat is tied to a place and a moment — it doesn’t linger as something you have to clean up once it’s no longer relevant. See Safety for how this design also avoids the accountability problems that sank earlier anonymous location-based chat apps.

Hereby is a small, independently-run prototype currently in TestFlight beta on iOS — it isn’t on the public App Store yet.

No. Other users only ever see the location of a conversation — which reflects where it was created, not where any specific person is standing. Your own precise location is never shown to anyone. Full detail in the Privacy Policy.

Your raw GPS coordinate is used for one thing — checking whether you’re close enough to join or post in a specific chat — and then discarded immediately. It’s never written to a database. A new chat’s own location is snapped to a coarse grid before it’s stored, so what’s saved is an approximate area, never a precise point.

You’re pseudonymous, not anonymous. You show up to other users as a generated username and a level, never your real name or a photo — but every account is a real person verified by a one-time code sent to a real email address, not a disposable, untraceable account. More on why that distinction matters on the Safety page.

Chats only appear on the map if your current location is inside their radius. Tap one to see its details, then join to start posting. If you step outside the area, you get a short grace period before you’re moved to read-only for that chat.

Yes — tap Start chat from the map. You choose a radius from a specific spot (like a single table) up to a wide area (like a whole venue or event), and the chat is created at your current location.

Every chat has one General thread by default. Participants can branch off additional threads scoped to the same chat — useful for keeping a large, busy conversation organized instead of one long scrolling feed.

Levels are built from upvotes on your messages — a rough signal of how consistently helpful an account has been, shown right next to your username. Voting doesn’t rank or reorder the feed itself; it only affects your own level over time.

Chats score their own activity from participants and recent messages, and move through new → active → cooling down → archived on their own as things quiet down, plus a hard time limit regardless of activity. Once archived, a chat and everything in it is permanently deleted within about 72 hours — there’s no long-term message archive.

Every message is automatically reviewed the instant it’s sent, not only when someone reports it — clearly serious violations can be removed within moments. A human always makes the final call on anything account-level. Full detail on how and why.

You can report a specific message or a user directly from within a conversation. Reported content is prioritized for review alongside whatever AI has already caught proactively.

Contact us using the email on the Privacy Policy page — deleting your account also deletes any messages you’ve sent that still exist at that time.