Wavelength - Group Chat 12+
Threaded. Secure. Simple.
Telepath Inc.
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- Free
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Description
Wavelength is a new kind of group chat. Each conversation in a group is a separate thread, and you can mute a thread you don’t care about. It’s chat for big groups that actually works.
• Effortless threading: In a traditional group chat you can only talk about one thing at a time. If a conversation is noisy, the only option is to mute the entire group. On Wavelength, you can mute a thread about a basketball game you’re not interested in, while staying looped in on another thread about dinner plans for tonight. It’s simple and intuitive.
• End-to-end encrypted: Messages on Wavelength are private and secure using state of the art end-to-end encryption. Nobody outside the group can read your messages, not even the Wavelength team. We use Double Ratchet encryption, which is the most advanced kind of encryption for private messaging.
• History sync: The history sync feature makes group onboarding a breeze. When a new member joins, existing members will automatically re-encrypt and securely share recent message history. New users are seamlessly caught up when they join the group. This is the first time that an encrypted messaging app has a feature like this.
• Talk to AI with friends: Easily add powerful AI to your group chats. Just mention @AI to invite your intelligent virtual assistant to join the conversation. Your AI assistant can help with a wide range of tasks, including looking up information from the web, providing recommendations, answering questions, and more.
What’s New
Version 0.12.8
Bug fixes and improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Amazing for 2 (maybe 3) reasons
The marquee feature first: the AI interaction supercharges every conversation. It’s like the old “let’s Google that” but doesn’t necessitate halting the conversation.
The sleeper hit: threading makes sense out of conversations you have with people that you have more than one reason to write to. Wish I had critical mass to extend that to groups, and I can’t wait until that’s the case. I can’t wait to give this outfit some money, but I hope I can convince a bunch of my friends to join first.
Subset of feature 1: the AI bots invite the same kind of blue-sky thinking that Chat AI did last year. Who do you want in on your conversation? Or who do you want to have a chat with? The three-famous-people dinner is no longer hypothetical. Your favorite deceased author? A striking fictional character? Your cat? Set the table and invite them in.
Great app for groups and communities
At first I was skeptical and thought “do I really need another chat app?“
After joining a few active groups, I am absolutely hooked. You really see how design makes a huge difference an app specifically designed for group chat, feels very different to Telegram or WhatsApp, or any of the other apps that are made for one-to-one communication.
Needs moderation features
Wonderfully thoughtful, impressively technical app. The team would quickly add quality features and the premise of a decentralized, no-cloud E2EE platform is a fantastic objective.
Without proper moderation features to block and mute individuals to avoid seeing their content, however, this app is a non-starter for many I wanted to try to bring to the platform.
Several of the initial communities on the platform have incredibly racist and aggressive individuals that can't be avoided because of the lack of moderation tools. This app is best when interacting with dynamic group chats of hundreds of people, but as with any large group, there will be people that a user won't want to interact with.
This app persists the ongoing stereotype of male/pale-run tech startups that don't consider the benefits of moderation tools, making spaces more accessible and inclusive for non-male / non-white users. It perpetuates the Silicon Valley / tech bro / libertarian echo chambers and systemically prevents diverse participation.
After a couple months of use, I left the app and can't consider returning to it until these safety are added on. I grew tired of opening the app to incredibly bigoted viewpoints that I can't avoid reading in groups I'd otherwise want to engage with.
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Information
- Seller
- Telepath Inc.
- Size
- 14.7 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Copyright
- © Telepath Inc.
- Price
- Free