Why Kolekwi

Private by default.

Every message in Kolekwi, direct or group, is end-to-end encrypted on your device before it leaves. We run the service, but we can't read what you write. There's no setting to find and no administrator who has to switch it on. The one exception is your choice, not ours: if someone in a conversation reports messages to us, we see only the messages they choose to include.

That isn't how most workplace chat works. Microsoft Teams encrypts chat on its way to and inside Microsoft's data centres, but its end-to-end encryption is limited to one-to-one calls and to meetings set up to require it, must first be enabled by an administrator, and doesn't cover chat messages.

Based on Microsoft's published Teams documentation, October 2026.

Honest about what we can see.

To run the service, we can still see some things: your account email and profile, who you're connected to and who is in each conversation, when messages are sent and read, group names and reactions, which devices and browsers you use, whether you're online, and the type and size of files you share, though not their names or contents. Our privacy policy lists exactly what, so you don't have to guess.

Simple on purpose.

Kolekwi is a chat app. It doesn't try to become your file storage, your calendar or your office suite, and it doesn't steer you into a family of products. Share a file, and its contents are encrypted too.

Your history, on your devices.

Set up a recovery key and you can restore your message history on a new device from your latest backup, protected by a key only you hold. Messages set to disappear aren't included.

Why we built it.

“I used Skype for years because it just worked. When it was retired and replaced by Teams, the simplicity went with it. Kolekwi is the chat app I wanted instead: simple to use, and private by design.” (Erik)