About Agora

Talk to real people.
Keep it between you.

Agora is a messaging service for people in the EU. Everyone signs in with their national digital ID, so everyone you meet is a real person. Your messages travel from your device to theirs, and nobody else can read them: there is no central server that stores or can read your conversations.

Why we built it

The internet has filled up with bots, fake accounts and algorithms.

It is harder than ever to know whether you are talking to a person. Feeds are tuned to keep you scrolling and to push whatever serves the platform, whether that is fake news, a political agenda or an advertiser.

Privacy and safety should not be a trade-off.

Most services make you choose: stay anonymous and put up with abuse, or give up your data to be protected. On Agora, other people only see the name you choose, yet every account belongs to a verified person. Nobody can hide behind a fake account.

Conversation is a public good, not a product.

Agora is free, has no ads and is open source. There is no feed to optimise and no data to sell, because there is no company behind it with shareholders to answer to.

We designed Agora to know as little about you as possible.

What Agora stores

A code from your ID provider that confirms you are a verified person. It is not your name or national ID.
Your devices' public keys, so others can check that a message really came from you.
The public part of any security key you add for two-step sign-in.
A security log of each sign-in, which the ID provider requires.
When your account was created.

What Agora never stores

Your name, date of birth or national ID
Your messages
Who you talk to
Your IP address

To connect your device with someone else’s, our servers briefly see who is connecting to whom and from which address. None of it is written down, and it is gone when you disconnect.