We don't care why you need private chat. Just use it.

Every privacy tool out there feels the need to justify itself. "For journalists protecting sources." "For businesses handling sensitive data." "For activists in oppressive regimes." That's fine. But we're not going to do that.

You want a chat room that disappears? Here. Go. We don't need to know why.

Maybe you're planning a surprise birthday party and you don't want it showing up in your WhatsApp history. Maybe you're talking to a lawyer about something personal. Maybe you're venting about your day and you just don't want that conversation sitting on some company's server until the heat death of the universe. Maybe it's none of the above and you just like the idea that when a conversation is over, it's actually over.

All of those are fine. All of them. And you don't owe us an explanation for any of them.

We didn't build a sign-up form because we don't want your information

Think about what happens when you sign up for a chat app. You hand over your email, maybe your phone number. You agree to terms that let the company use your data in ways you'll never read about because the document is 9,000 words long. You create a profile that links your identity to everything you say from that point forward.

We skipped all of that. Open the site, click a button, you're in a room. Pick a nickname — any nickname, we're not checking. Share the link with whoever you want to talk to. That's the whole process.

We don't have your email. We don't have your phone number. We don't even have your IP address in a log file because we turned logging off. You're just a nickname in a room that will stop existing soon.

Privacy shouldn't require a reason

There's this weird thing that happens in conversations about privacy where people feel like they need to prove they deserve it. "I have nothing to hide, but..." — you don't need the "but." You don't need to justify wanting a conversation to stay between you and the people you're talking to.

You close the bathroom door even when nobody else is home. You don't carbon-copy your entire contact list on every email. You have conversations in person that you wouldn't repeat on a stage. That's not suspicious. That's being a normal person.

BurnChat is the digital version of talking in a room and then walking out. The room doesn't record you. The walls don't have memory. You said what you said, and then it's gone.

What we actually see from our end

Nothing. Seriously.

We don't have an admin panel where we can peek into rooms. We don't have analytics tracking how many messages get sent. We don't have a dashboard showing us what people are talking about. We literally cannot read your conversations, not because of some policy we pinky-promise to follow, but because the server doesn't save them anywhere we could access.

The messages exist in the server's temporary memory while the room is active. When the room is gone, the memory is recycled. There's no "check the backup" option. There's no backup.

Use it for whatever

Coordinate a group project. Share passwords with your team and then burn the room. Have a conversation you'd rather not keep. Plan something. Discuss something. Argue about something. Send each other memes and then torch the whole thing.

We made this tool. You decide what it's for.