Tas Dial
Messages
Text, photos, video, voice notes and documents. Edit and reply, react, delete for everyone, and search your own history on the device.
- Groups of up to 64 people
- Works offline — it sends when you have signal
- Read receipts you can switch off
Talk • Share • Stay Close
One place for the people who matter.
Messages, voice and video calls, proper meetings, and somewhere safe for the photos you would hate to lose. Built for a family, not for an advertising business.
Invite-only while we grow. Android, web and Windows today.
What you get
Everything a family actually uses, and nothing it doesn’t.
One app instead of four, with the storage built in rather than sold separately.
Calls
One-to-one and group voice and video, with screen sharing. Small calls go device to device; larger ones run through our own media server.
- Rings the phone even when the app is asleep
- Background blur and backgrounds
- “In a call” shows in the chat
Storage that is yours
Folders, versions and a recycle bin, plus a photo timeline and albums. Files are encrypted on your device before they leave it.
- 10 GB to start, uploads up to 4 GB each
- A private vault with a recovery kit
- See exactly what is using your space
Photo backup
Your camera roll backs itself up in the background. When the phone fills up, Free Up Space removes only what is already safely stored.
- Checks the backup before deleting anything local
- Shared attachments land in their own folder
- Runs on Wi-Fi and while charging if you prefer
Meetings
Schedule something properly: a time, a calendar invite, a link for people who are not on Tas Dial, and a host who is actually in charge.
- Repeats that keep their local time
- Reminders and “starting soon” nudges
- RSVP and who actually turned up
On your phone, laptop and desktop
Android, any modern browser, and a Windows app. Sign in on more than one device and everything keeps up.
- Updates arrive in the app
- See and remove your own devices
- iOS and macOS are not available yet
Getting going
Three steps, and about five minutes.
Get an invite
Tas Dial is invite-only. Someone already on it sends you a code, which works once. That is deliberate: it keeps strangers and spam out by design rather than by moderation.
Install and sign in
Install the Android app or open the web app, confirm your email, and pick a display name. Add your phone number only if you want to be found by it.
Bring your people in
Start a chat, make a group, turn on photo backup. Every member can invite the next person, so a family spreads itself without going through you.
Meetings
A real meeting tool, not a group call with a timer.
Everything below exists because a family meeting, a class, or a committee call needs more than “everyone unmute at once”.
Guests without an account
Send a link. A guest types their name, waits in the lobby until a host lets them in, and can chat, raise a hand, react, vote in polls and caption their own speech.
Hosts in charge
Mute everyone, ask someone to unmute, spotlight a speaker, pin a tile, promote a co-host, admit or remove people, and set a passcode or make everyone wait for you.
Breakout rooms
Split the room into groups and move people between them, on the web and on Android. Everyone talks inside a breakout, and the room’s rules apply again on the way back.
Webinar mode
Turn on view-only and a few people speak while the rest watch, listen, chat and raise hands. It is enforced by the media server, not just hidden in the interface.
Live captions and polls
Captions are spoken on the device, so your voice is not sent anywhere to be transcribed. Polls open, close and show results to the room.
Recording, announced
A host records on their own device, and everyone in the room is told it has started. No silent recording, and no copy of your meeting sitting on our servers.
Privacy and security
We would rather tell you the truth than show you a padlock.
Plenty of apps say “your privacy matters” and leave it there. Here is the actual table: what our servers can read, and what they cannot.
| Your data | Can we read it? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your password | No | Only a hash is stored, and it cannot be turned back into your password. |
| Files and photos in your storage | No | Encrypted on your device with a key we never receive. |
| Things you send in a chat | No | Encrypted on your device too, including the file name and the caption. |
| Your address book | No | It is never uploaded. Matching happens on your phone. |
| What you say in a call or meeting | No | Audio and video pass through, they are not recorded or stored. |
| Message text | Not yet protected from us | End-to-end encryption for messages is being built now (MLS, RFC 9420). Until it ships, message text is readable on the server in principle, so we say so plainly instead of implying otherwise. |
| Who you talk to, and when | Yes | Delivering a message means knowing where to send it. We keep this to the minimum and never use it for advertising. |
| Your email, phone number and display name | Yes | Needed to sign you in and to let the right people find you. |
No trackers, and no advertising
No analytics SDKs, no advertising SDKs, no session replay. Crash reports go to our own server with personal details stripped out. There is nothing to sell, because selling it is not the business.
Found by phone number only if you say so
Discovery is opt-in, and the app sends only a short fragment of a one-way hash of each number, never the numbers themselves.
What an operator can see
Account status, devices and storage totals, so we can help when something breaks. Not your messages, not your files, not the names of your private files. Every look at an account is logged.
Pricing
One plan per household, not per person.
Tas Dial is invite-only while it is being finished, and the prices below are not set yet. The plans and what is in them are real; the numbers are placeholders.
Prices not final
Family
— / month
For one household staying in touch.
- Up to 6 people
- 10 GB each
- Messages, calls and photo backup
- Meetings up to an hour
Family Plus
— / month
For a bigger family, and the grandparents too.
- Up to 15 people
- 100 GB each
- Everything in Family
- Meetings with breakout rooms and webinar mode
- Guest links for people not on Tas Dial
Group
— / month
For a club, a class or a committee.
- Groups of up to 64
- Storage to suit
- An operator console for whoever runs it
- Everything in Family Plus
Questions
The things people actually ask.
Is it end-to-end encrypted?
Files and photos are: they are encrypted on your device, and we never hold the key. The same goes for anything you attach to a chat, including its file name.
Message text is not yet. It is encrypted in transit and at rest, and our servers never look inside a message, but until the end-to-end work ships the text is readable on the server in principle. We are building it on MLS (RFC 9420), and we would rather tell you where we are than put a padlock on the page and hope.
Why do I need an invite?
Because it keeps the place quiet. No strangers, no spam accounts, nothing to moderate. Any member can invite someone, and each code works once.
What happens to my photos if I stop paying?
You can always export what you have. Your files are yours, and nothing is deleted without telling you first and giving you time to get it out.
Can I use it on more than one device?
Yes. Sign in on your phone, your laptop browser and the Windows app, and they stay in step. You can see your devices and remove one you no longer have.
Is there an iPhone app?
Not yet. Android, the web app and Windows are available today. The web app works on an iPhone browser in the meantime, and iOS is designed for but not scheduled.
Where is my data kept?
On servers we run, with a nightly backup kept somewhere separate. We can tell you the region before you sign up if it matters to you.
Do you sell anything to advertisers?
No, and the architecture makes it awkward to start: there are no advertising SDKs in the apps, no third-party analytics, and most of what you store is encrypted before it reaches us.
Talk • Share • Stay Close
Tas Dial is invite-only while we finish the end-to-end encryption work. If someone has sent you a code, start here. If not, leave us a line and we will come back to you.
Or write to [email protected]