TreeChat

A conversation is not one column. It is four things at once: the plan, the money, the thing you keep forgetting to ask, and whatever you were actually talking about. In every other messenger those four get flattened into one scroll, and three of them get lost.

TreeChat branches. Long-press any message, give it a name, and it becomes a chat of its own hanging off the one it came from. The original keeps its shape. The new one keeps its own history. And the whole thing is a tree you can open and look at.

END-TO-END ENCRYPTED CHATS

Messages to your contacts and groups, chat names and reply previews are encrypted on your phone before they are uploaded, with keys that live in your device's hardware-backed keystore. The server stores ciphertext and cannot read a word of it. A new device you sign in on reads nothing until a device you already trust approves it — and you can check the fingerprint before you do.

BUILT AROUND THE TREE

• Branch any message into its own named chat.

• See the whole conversation as a graph, and drag it into a shape that makes sense to you.

• Unread branches glow, so the tree tells you where something new is.

• Collapse a branch you are done with, without deleting anything.

• Groups branch too, with the same shape and the same encryption.

TREES

The public side of TreeChat. Every one of the sixteen personality types has an official Tree, with a quick quiz if you don't know yours. Join any of them, or start your own with Plus.

• Post with photos or links, comment, vote, and sort by Hot, New or Top.

• Branches give a Tree its own topics, drawn as a tree like your chats.

• A room in every Tree to chat with its members live.

• Search every Tree and every post, and get notified when someone replies.

Trees are public and not end-to-end encrypted, and stay apart from your private chats. People you meet there become contacts only through a friend request.

MAKE IT YOURS

• Ten themes, from Dark and AMOLED black to Light, Kitty and the Plus themes — Starry night, Forest, Ocean, Snow, Sunset and Lavender, with their own weather.

• Kitty's room: choose the Kitty theme and a cartoon cat moves in. Pet it, feed it, and watch its room fill up as it levels up.

• Photos, view-once photos, stories, GIFs, voice messages and reactions.

DESIGNED TO BE QUIET

• Notifications you can actually manage: separate channels for direct and group messages, and mute per chat rather than per person.

• Choose how much a notification says: nothing, who it is from, or the message. A locked screen only ever shows "New message".

• No ads, no trackers and no analytics SDK.

PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION

• No phone number and no access to your contact list. Direct connections start from an invite you control: it works for 7 or 30 days, as you choose, and you can revoke it at any time. Group invitations are owner-controlled the same way and also stop at their use limit.

• Nobody can look you up. There is no people search, no directory, no suggestions.

• Block anyone, in both directions, enforced on the server — including inside a group you share.

• Report a person or a message through the in-app safety flow.

• Delete your account and its data from the app, or from the web if you have uninstalled. It happens immediately.

The local database on your phone is encrypted too, with a key held in the Android Keystore.

OPTIONAL PLUS PLAN

The free plan supports two direct contacts, one group and one Tree room, with three photos and one story a day. Plus removes those limits while keeping the 200-person group limit, and also lets you create your own Trees, unlocks six more themes and every level of Kitty's room past the first three. Google Play handles checkout; payment details are not sent to TreeChat. Existing history and keys are kept if Plus ends, while unselected retained chats become read-only until you choose access or resubscribe.

Privacy policy and terms are linked below, and both are also in the app under Settings → Privacy.