# Tunnel Messenger

> Encrypted by default

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6762237555](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6762237555)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6762237555`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Francesco Tripepi
- **Category:** Social Networking
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-15
- **First published:** 2026-04-18
- **Size:** 24 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-08-31
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tunnel-messenger/id6762237555)
- **Website:** [https://tunnelmessenger.com/](https://tunnelmessenger.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://tunnelmessenger.com/privacy](https://tunnelmessenger.com/privacy)

## Description

Tunnel — Private Messaging by Design

Tunnel is a secure messaging app for people who care about privacy. Every conversation is end-to-end encrypted, every account is protected by a cryptographic identity you control, and there is no phone number or email required to sign up.

WHAT MAKES TUNNEL DIFFERENT
• End-to-end encryption on every message, photo, file, and call — Tunnel servers never see your plaintext content.
• Quantum-safe key exchange — modern Curve25519 cryptography combined with post-quantum CRYSTALS-Kyber to protect your conversations against current and future attacks.
• No phone number, no email — sign up with just a username. Your identity is a key pair generated locally on your device.
• Move between devices with a single credential — no SMS codes, no recovery emails, no third parties.
• Voice and video calls, encrypted end-to-end, with native CallKit integration on iPhone.
• Per-conversation safety codes you can verify in person.
• Forward secrecy via the Double Ratchet protocol — past messages stay safe even if a future key is compromised.

CONVERSATIONS YOU CONTROL
• Your contact list lives only on your device.
• Add contacts by username, by scanning a QR code, or by pasting an invite link.
• Block and unblock anyone without notifying them.
• Mute conversations, archive threads, star messages.
• Send photos, videos, and files — no plaintext ever leaves your device.
• Edit and forward messages, reply to specific messages, react with emoji.
• Disappearing-message timers per chat.

PRIVACY-FIRST IDENTITY
• Your account is a cryptographic credential you generate locally and save yourself.
• Tunnel does not store your credential — the server only sees a one-way hash that cannot be reversed.
• Multi-device support — import your credential on a new device, and each device gets its own per-device encryption keys.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6762237555)