Nobody arrives in your Badger uninvited — and there's no algorithm to game, because you can't be searched for, listed, or stumbled upon. (You can still block someone, if it comes to that.) Talk in private encrypted feeds built from your own contacts, and share exactly as much of yourself as you feel like, with exactly the people you choose. Use it to keep in touch with a few friends, or a whole group, or as a cross platform FindMy — and if you love it, support it with Badger+ to lift the limits and take the ads away.
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Whether it’s just you and one friend or a whole group, a Badger conversation is a calm, scrolling feed of posts — the format you know from the big social apps, but end-to-end encrypted and built from your own contacts. Everyone you see is someone you chose. No strangers, no algorithm, and ads you can switch off.
Your messages are encrypted so thoroughly that we couldn’t read them if we wanted to. But privacy is more than encryption, so everything about you — your mood, your status, whether you’re on a map at all — sits behind switches you own. And every one of them is reciprocal: if you don’t share it, you don’t see it either.
Any conversation can be flipped from its feed to a map of just the people in it — handy for “are we still on?”, easy to ignore the rest of the time. It’s an option, not the point: plenty of people use Badger purely for the conversations and never switch a map on at all.
Badger is the social media you used to love — before the strangers, the outrage machine and the AI slop. Every conversation, big or small, is just your actual friends, talking like people — in any of 29 languages.
A group of friends or a chat with one person — both are the same private feed, encrypted end-to-end.
Quote, like, @mention and pin. Share a moment with a whole group — like a campfire, not a megaphone.
Photos, videos, voice notes, files, GIFs and stickers — all encrypted, all inside the conversation.
Follow a few Substack and Medium writers, Bluesky accounts, or any RSS feed, and read them in your own private My Feeds — right inside Badger. Deliberately lightweight, made for the few dozen feeds you actually keep up with, not a power-user firehose — and kept well apart from your private messages.
Say how you’re doing without having to say anything. Pick two moods from a list or an emotion wheel, add a status emoji and a line of your own — each shared only with whoever you choose.
Pick which kinds reach you — messages, mentions, replies, reactions, invitations — for everything, or for one noisy group. If they carry content, it's encrypted like everything else.
Someone you know sends you one. Sign in with Apple, Google or a magic email link — no passwords to remember, no spam.
Invite friends from your contacts by email or phone number, or swap BadgerCodes. Start a one-to-one chat or name a group — you’re talking straight away.
Mood, status, read receipts, whether you’re on a map at all. Set it once, change it per conversation, and change your mind whenever you like.
Add your phone number or alternative email address to your profile, or let others find you by your BadgerCode.
Badger starts closed and opens only where you open it. Nobody can find you unless they know you — and even then they you have to be let them in. Conversations are end-to-end encrypted. Everything else about you sits behind a switch you hold, and works in both directions.
Same idea, done differently — and we'll be honest about where the others lead. See how Badger stands next to the big names.
Encrypted like WhatsApp — but not owned by Meta, and with a real social feed for your own circle. →
Signal's spirit of privacy, built to be social: feeds, moods, an optional map and rich groups. →
A feed for your friends, not the whole internet — no algorithm, no ads on you, no AI on your posts. →
Everything Meta’s apps quietly take — your attention, your data, a feed ranked to sell you back to advertisers — simply gone. No algorithm mining you, no strangers, no AI. Just the stuff your friends actually want to post.
See the people you choose on a live map across iPhone, Android and the web — not Apple-only. And it stays behind your privacy: off until you switch it on, and only ever both ways.
Follow Substack, Medium, Bluesky or any RSS feed, right inside Badger. It’s not a power-user firehose with folders and filters — but for the few dozen feeds you actually keep up with, it does just what you need, next to your conversations.
Declare a flight and your dot keeps moving on the map while you’re in the air, on public flight data. Not a full aviation tracker — but for letting your people see you’re on your way, it’s all you need.
The social part is all free, forever — every conversation, every privacy control, the same encryption. Badger+ lifts the limits on big things and takes the ads away.
Everything you need to stay close to your people.
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