No phone number. No email. No name. The server cannot read your messages — not even if it wanted to.
Morok never asks for your contacts. Never asks for a phone number. Never asks for an email. Signing up takes 30 seconds — then you just talk.
The server keeps no message history. Once you have read a message it is gone from the server. Reinstall the app and nothing comes back. No admin can hand it over, because there is nothing to hand over.
liveEvery message is encrypted on your device before it leaves. Only the recipient can decrypt it. The server sees nothing but meaningless bytes — reading them is not an option, however much anyone wants to.
liveSign up with no personal data at all. Your account is 24 secret words that only you know. Nobody can find you by phone number — because we never learn it.
liveYou can use Morok with no username at all. Such an account cannot be searched for — only reached through a link or QR code you hand out yourself. Stay away for 7 days and an anonymous account is erased entirely.
liveEvery message has a lifespan. After an hour, a day or a week it is erased on both sides, leaving no trace in the app.
liveInvite-only, through a link from the admin. The group name and its messages are encrypted with a key only members hold. The server sees neither the name, nor the members, nor a word of the conversation.
liveIf you stop opening the app for long enough, a message you prepared in advance is delivered automatically to the person you chose. Useful for passing on passwords, crypto keys or instructions to the people who matter.
liveMorok has an official .onion address. Use it through Tor Browser and your provider sees neither what you write nor the fact that you use Morok at all.
liveInstead of a single server someone can switch off — a network of servers that talk to each other. Anyone can run their own, and people on different servers chat as if they were on one.
liveMorok's code will be fully open once the first stable release ships. Anyone will be able to audit it, fork it, rebuild it themselves. There are no secrets in how privacy works.
after releaseMorok shows no ads, collects no behavioural metrics and hands nothing to third parties. There is no business model built on your data — because we do not keep any.
liveThe server cannot even see who is writing to whom. The sender's identity is encrypted inside the message — the relay sees only a recipient and a blob of bytes. Who sent it is known only to whoever can decrypt it.
liveSave the people you talk to under names only you see. The list lives on your device and the server knows nothing about it. You can also filter who is allowed to message you.
liveLock the app behind a PIN. If your phone ends up in the wrong hands, nobody opens your chats without it. Encryption keys are only ever stored on the device in protected form.
liveOpen Morok in your browser. Thirty seconds later you have 24 secret words — that is your key. No phone. No email. Not even a username if you would rather not.
Give your link or QR code to the people you want to talk to — over Telegram, Signal, on paper, however you like. The link carries none of your personal data.
Every message is encrypted and self-destructs after the time you choose. The server cannot read it, and keeps no history of it.
An honest side-by-side. Green means on by default, amber means partial or opt-in, grey means absent.
| Feature | Morok | Signal | Telegram | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sign-up without a phone number | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Anonymous accounts (no username) | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Server cannot see who messages whom | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| End-to-end encryption | ✓ | ✓ | private chats only | ✓ |
| Server keeps no history | ✓ | partial | keeps everything | keeps metadata |
| Disappearing messages | by default | optional | optional | optional |
| Dead man's switch | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Federated servers | ✓ | single server | single server | single server |
| Tor access | official .onion | via proxy | blocked | blocked |
| Ads and trackers | none | none | has ads | meta analytics |
For now, we do not. Morok is built by one person, with no venture money behind it. A small premium subscription for extra features may appear later. The core messenger stays free forever.
Without them, access cannot be restored — that is precisely the point of the design. The server knows neither your password nor your phone, so it cannot help you recover anything. Write the 24 words on paper and hide them in two or three safe places. Chat history and mail can be saved separately into an encrypted backup file (Settings → Device backup), free of charge.
Yes. Morok is federated: anyone can run their own relay and stay connected to the rest of the network. Installing takes a single command on an ordinary VPS — TLS, the database and a Tor address are all set up for you. Read the guide →
Yes. Morok is built in Ukraine, with server infrastructure in Europe. Anyone, anywhere, is welcome to use it.
Telegram stores all your messages on its servers (apart from "secret chats", which almost nobody uses). Telegram knows your phone number. Telegram belongs to a single company with a single owner. Morok is built the other way round: nothing is stored, no phone is needed, and the servers are federated — you can even run one yourself.
Signal is an excellent messenger and an inspiration for this project. The main difference: Signal needs a phone number to register, while Morok asks for nothing at all. Disappearing messages are also on by default here, rather than something you switch on.
You can and you should. It is an ordinary messenger that simply respects you more. Text a friend about the weather, your mother about dinner, colleagues about work. You do not have to be an investigative journalist to deserve privacy.
Windows, yes — download it at the top of this page. Android is in development and iOS will follow. On a phone, use the web version for now: it runs in the browser and can be added to your home screen like a normal app (via "Add to home screen" in Safari or Chrome).
Nothing at all. The encryption simply works, with no settings to touch. You write messages; the app handles everything else. We call that principle "privacy by default".
By email: morok.messenger@pm.me. We usually reply within a few days.