SobaChat

SobaChat lets you talk with people near you, offline.
No internet and no servers: phones connect to each other directly over Bluetooth.

Use it where there is no signal, at events, in classrooms or while travelling — whenever you want to talk with the people around you.

■ Features
- Find and join nearby rooms: rooms created nearby appear in a list
- Create rooms: open to everyone, or protected with a passphrase
- Invite with a QR code: show a room's invite QR to people around you
- Stickers: SobaChat character stamps and emoji stickers
- Send photos, voice memos, files (up to 10 MB) and your location
- Profiles: nickname, icon and a short introduction
- Chat history: saved per room, only on this device (or choose not to save at all)
- Available in 9 languages (Japanese, English, Chinese Simplified/Traditional, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German)

■ Privacy
- No account needed
- Messages never pass through the developer's servers; they travel only between nearby participants' devices
- Passphrase rooms and invite-only rooms are encrypted so that only participants can read them
- Messages in open rooms can be received by anyone nearby — do not send anything you want to keep private
- You can block people and report inappropriate use to the developer from the app

■ Premium (in-app purchase)
Unlocks the following. Joining rooms is always free.
- Create invite-only rooms (hidden from the nearby list; only people you invite by QR code can join)
- Create temporary chats (rooms that leave no history on participants' devices)

■ Please note
- You can only chat with people within Bluetooth range; the range depends on the devices and surroundings
- Photos and files are sent over Bluetooth, so large ones take time
- Requires Android 8.0 or later. Not available for iPhone