What we’re announcing today…

• No more waitlist – Beeper is now available to everyone!
• Beeper has been acquired by Automattic
• Our new Android app is out of beta
• We’re renaming Beeper Cloud → Beeper (sorry for the confusion)

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What is Beeper?

If you haven’t already heard of Beeper, welcome! Beeper is a universal chat app for Android, iOS and desktop. Our goal is to build the best chat app on earth.

It has a few killer features:

• One chat app to rule them all. Send and receive messages on 14 different chat networks.
• Stay on top of your chats with a universal inbox. One place to check and chat with all your friends.
• Search instantly across your entire digital history. Find a friend’s address they sent you, or their spouse’s name, in a snap.
• Plus, simple obvious features that chat apps should have had years ago, like auto-copying 2FA codes, scheduling messages, archiving, folders and a fantastic desktop experience.

Beeper is built on an open source chat protocol called Matrix. Over time, we’ll help people migrate from proprietary, siloed chat networks to an open standard for chat. If you’re interested in learning about this, we’ve written more about our intentions.

FYI: Beeper does not currently support iMessage, but there’s good reason to be cautiously optimistic about the future. In March, the US government took up our fight and sued Apple for blocking Beeper Mini’s access to iMessage. The FCC is also investigating. 🤞

Apple has also announced that iPhones will support RCS chat protocol in 2024. Good news – Beeper already supports RCS! This should fix most iPhone ↔ Android chat problems, like low resolution images/videos, lack of typing indicators and encryption.

No more waitlist. Download now!

Since we announced Beeper in 2021, over 115,000 people have helped beta test our app. We’ve learned a lot and made a ton of tweaks. We’re finally ready to invite the 466,000 extraordinarily patient folks on our waitlist, and the entire world!

Beeper is now available for everyone to download. We have apps on Android, iPhone/iPad, ChromeOS, macOS, Windows and Linux. Head over to beeper.com/download to grab it.

It’s free to use, and includes access to all chat networks. At a later point, we will also offer an optional paid subscription, which includes additional features like being able to add multiple accounts per network and more.

Beeper is joining Automattic

Next big piece of news – we’ve been acquired by Automattic! It’s a really big deal. I’ve known Matt, their CEO, for years. We’re extremely excited to have the support of an organization known for fantastic open source projects like WordPress, WooCommerce, Pocket Casts and Simplenote. Beeper as you know and love it will continue to thrive. Our whole team is moving over to Automattic, and we’ll continue operating as an independent team. Read more in the announcement blog post.

Our new Android app is now out of beta

You may have caught our announcement from a few weeks ago – we’ve built a new Android app from scratch to be fast, clean and beautiful. Thank you to our 10,000 eager Android friends who have been beta testing the app! Today we’re releasing the app to everyone.

The new app features:

• Beautiful new design
• Instant chat opens. Instant message sends.
• Set up and modify chat networks in the app, no desktop required
• All chats are cached locally on-device
• Full message search
• Fully end-to-end encryption local Signal bridge (local WhatsApp and all e2ee network bridges coming soon)

Download now on the Google Play store. The old app won’t auto-update, you must download the new one manually.

Read about the rewrite and our new local end-to-end encrypted architecture on our tech blog.

Next up

Now, we’re merging with the Texts.com team (who were acquired by Automattic last year) to work together on our shared mission to build the best chat app on earth! We’ve got a lot of new features and improvements in the works. Beeper iOS and Desktop app are being overhauled, and updated with the new design language from Beeper Android. We’re working on a ton of Beeper Android improvements (ahem, archive) as well. Lots more to come soon.

Onwards!

Eric + Beeper Team

(Oh, we also have a new website, and our blog is now on WordPress! 📝 📟)