A wall only the two of you can see. Voice and video calls. Games. And a language that grows between you as you talk, word by word. No feed, no strangers, nobody to perform for.
Free. No ads. Invite only, so nobody reaches you unless you let them.
A wall, chats and calls nobody else can see.
It grows word by word, the more you talk.
No feed, no followers, no strangers.
No ads, no subscription, nothing sold on.
How it works
PrivateLingo is not a cipher and not a code book. There is nothing to install between you and nothing to memorise. You type in English, and the words you actually use become words only the two of you have.
Write the way you always write. No keyboard to switch, no rules to learn, no thinking about it.
You type
You coming tonight?
The first time you use a word that carries meaning, PrivateLingo invents a replacement and saves it to the dictionary you share. New languages grow quickly, then slow down, so the vocabulary is earned rather than handed over.
They read
Luma zavo nari?
That word is now permanent between the two of you. Tap any message to see the English underneath. Your language keeps a word count, a level and a streak, and it exists with nobody else.
nari = tonight
Level 3 · 214 words
Ours
Ours is the private space that belongs to one friendship. Paper notes, photos, video and words, pinned where only the two of you will ever see them.
No followers, no likes, no counts, because there is nobody to perform for. Seal a post until a date in the future and it stays shut until then. A year ago today brings back what you pinned this time last year.
The rest of it
The language is the reason to come. This is the part that makes it somewhere you can actually stay.
Text, photos, video, voice notes, files, GIFs and replies. Search your whole history, star what matters, and pin the people you talk to most.
One to one, sent straight between your two phones. If they miss it, leave a voice message instead.
Set a timer you can both see. Either of you can change it, and the change is announced in the thread rather than done quietly.
Call your people whatever you call them in your head. Only you ever see it, including when they ring you.
Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode in front of the app, so an unlocked phone is not an open one.
Play a two player word game in your own language, plus a daily puzzle with a streak worth keeping.
Take a plain text copy of everything the two of you said, any time you want it. It is your conversation.
Nobody reaches you until you accept them. No browsing, no suggested people, no strangers arriving.
No subscription, no ads, nothing locked behind a paywall, and nothing about you sold to anybody.
Plainly
It is easier to trust a product that tells you where it stops.
Our servers do the translating, so we are technically able to reach your messages. We would rather write that here than let you assume otherwise. If end to end encryption is what you need, use Signal. We mean that.
There is no discovery, no browsing, no public feed and no suggested strangers. The only way in is an invite you accept.
No ads, no advertising SDKs, no profile of you sold on. Crash reports carry an anonymous id and nothing else, so we can fix what breaks without reading anything.
Questions
A vocabulary that belongs to one pair of people. As you chat, PrivateLingo replaces the meaningful words you type with invented ones and stores them in a dictionary the two of you share. Nobody else has your words, and the same English word becomes something completely different in every other conversation you have.
Yes. A language needs two people. Send an invite link or an invite code, and your language starts the moment they accept.
Always. Tap a message to see what it originally said, or switch the whole thread back to plain English whenever you like. Nothing is ever lost in translation, because both versions are always there.
No, and we would rather say so here than bury it. Your messages are encrypted in transit and stored on Google Firebase, but because our servers do the translating we are technically able to reach them. We only do that to run the service, to look into a report, or where the law requires it.
If end to end encryption is what you need, Signal is the right answer and we will happily say so.
Yes. No subscription, no ads, and nothing held back behind a payment.
Thirteen. In parts of the EU and the UK, people under sixteen may need a parent's consent.
iPhone and Android. Your language, your messages and your wall sync across both, so it does not matter which one the other person carries.
Pick whoever you talk to most. Within a week you will have a hundred words that belong to nobody else.
Free. No ads. Invite only, so nobody reaches you unless you let them.
