Two in the Bush

The idea

Signal is a phonebook.
This is a locket.

Every messenger wants everyone you know inside it. Two in the Bush holds exactly one person, chosen once, on purpose.

The app cannot add a second contact. That is not a missing feature - it is the entire product. A conversation with no crowd around it reads differently, feels differently, and deserves a different kind of care.

One person is worth choosing. This is where that choice lives.

The ceremony

Sealed with a question only you two share

Pairing is deliberate. One of you creates a code and says it to the other out loud. Then you both answer a question only you two know - "what did we eat on our first date?"

If the answers match, the locket seals. If they don't, the pairing burns and you start over. That little ritual is real cryptography (the socialist millionaire protocol): it mathematically proves no one sits between you - not an attacker, not even our own server.

Inside the locket

Everything two people need. Nothing else.

• Text, photos, voice notes, video messages - all end-to-end encrypted. Our server carries sealed envelopes it cannot open, and deletes each one the moment it's delivered.
• Your history lives only on your phones, encrypted behind a password we cannot recover. Face ID is a shortcut, never a replacement.
• Ten wrong password attempts and the conversation burns off that phone.
• Notifications carry no content - just a knock at the door.
• Leaving is loud. Unpairing burns the history on both phones, visibly. Re-pairing with someone new starts from nothing.

Deliberately missing

What we will never build

• No phone number required, no contact upload, no address book access
• No groups, no channels, no discovery, no spam surface
• No saving photos to the camera roll - what's in the locket stays in it
• No ads, no tracking, no analytics on your messages