LADON messenger
LADON messenger
Checking keys
Beta · 2026

Only you can read this. Today, tomorrow, always.

LADON messenger is a messenger for iPhone that lets no one read along. No phone number. No account. No trace. Not even when tomorrow's computers try to crack everything.

Try it: who can read this message?
"Hey, want to meet at 5:30 at the café?" ENCRYPTED
You: Sure — this message is meant for you.
Formally modeled · ProVerif 🇨🇭 Switzerland · Rust relays Signed warrant canary
What we never collect

We know nothing about you.

Other apps collect everything. We collect nothing. Take a look:

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Phone numbers
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Email addresses
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Contacts
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Telemetry
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Ad IDs
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Cloud backups
In 60 seconds

It's this easy.

No sign-up. No data. No waiting. You install — and start writing.

01 — Download

Download the app

LADON messenger on the App Store. No waiting, no invite — a simple monthly subscription.

02 — Open

Tap once

No account. No number. No email. On first launch, LADON messenger creates your key right on your phone.

03 — Write

Just start

Every message is encrypted automatically — before it leaves your phone. There's nothing to set up.

Adding someone

No directory. Just a scan.

There's no central address book to query — or to subpoena. You add a contact directly, and you can verify there's no one in the middle.

Add by QR code

Scan your contact's QR code in person — no phone number, no central directory that could be queried or handed over.

Verify with safety numbers

Every contact pair shares a safety number (a fingerprint). Compare it once and you know no one is secretly sitting in the middle.

Send anything

Everything you send. Readable by no one.

Photos, videos and voice messages are end-to-end encrypted like every text — and cleaned of hidden traces before they ever leave your phone.

GPS 47.3°N EXIF · iPhone

Photos

Location & camera data (EXIF) are stripped automatically — the image carries no hidden metadata.

Videos

Encrypted and metadata-cleaned, split into chunks and verified end-to-end.

Voice messages

The audio leaves your phone with no hidden data attached to it.

Disappearing messages

Set a timer per chat: 30s · 5min · 1h · 24h · 7 days — or off.

Even the file size reveals nothing — every attachment is padded to a fixed bucket. And contacts are added by QR code, never a phone number.

Why this matters

Encryption alone isn't enough.

To surveil you, someone doesn't even need to read your messages. Who with whom, when and how often — that often reveals more than the content itself.

ATTACK

"Who's talking to whom?"

Even without the content, someone can build a full profile of you — just from your connections.

Sender sealed
ATTACK

Patterns in the data flow

Even encrypted traffic gives you away: its rhythm shows exactly when a real conversation is happening.

Hidden by cover traffic
ATTACK

"Store today, crack later"

Today's data gets archived. In a few years, quantum computers decrypt it all at once.

Quantum-safe today
ATTACK

Identity linked

A phone number, email or device ID instantly links your "private" account to your real name.

No identity to link
How we protect you

Seven layers. Zero compromises.

Every message passes through seven separate layers of protection. We build as if every layer fails — and you'd still be protected.

No identity

You don't exist to us.

No phone number. No email. No name. On first launch, LADON messenger creates a secret key right on your phone — and never sends it to us. To our system, you are a random number.

NOT REQUIRED
Phone+41 79 …
Emailname@…
NameJohn Doe
Two servers, split knowledge

No one sees the whole picture.

Server one knows your IP, but not the recipient. Server two knows the recipient, but not you. Even if one were seized, the secret stays safe.

You
Entry
Exit
Contact
Cover traffic

No one can tell when you're really talking.

LADON messenger automatically sends dummy messages between the real ones. An observer sees constant traffic — but can't tell when a conversation is actually happening.

Quantum-safe

Safe today. Safe in 2035.

LADON messenger combines classical encryption with post-quantum cryptography. An attacker would have to crack both worlds — today's and tomorrow's — just to read a single message.

X25519classical
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Kyber768quantum-safe
Over Tor

Hide that you're hiding.

Built-in Tor connection with obfs4 and Snowflake bridges. Even in countries that block Tor, your provider sees only meaningless traffic.

YouIP unknown
Bridgedisguised
Tor 1anonymous
Tor 2anonymous
LADON messengerblind
Apple Secure Enclave

Your key never leaves the hardware.

Your secret keys live in Apple's hardware chip. Not even we can extract them. Neither can iOS. Nor anyone holding your unlocked phone. Face ID to unlock.

Secure Enclave Keys · isolated
never extractable
Panic mode

One tap. Everything gone.

In some moments, privacy matters more than anything. One tap — and LADON messenger overwrites every key, deletes every message, destroys every database. Irreversible, complete, instant.

root-key
session-key
message-key
db-key
contact-key
media-key
On your device

The last line of defense: your phone.

If the device itself becomes the target, these layers kick in — so even a phone in the wrong hands gives nothing away.

Screenshot & recording shield

Sensitive content is hidden from screenshots and screen recordings (the trick Signal uses) — and you're warned the moment a screenshot is taken.

Jailbreak & debugger guard

50+ checks plus anti-debugging. A jailbroken or tampered device — or an attached debugger — is locked out.

Face ID app lock

The app locks itself and needs Face ID to reopen — a glance at your unlocked screen isn't enough.

Dead man's switch

Inactive too long? The app wipes every key and message automatically.

Encrypted at rest

Messages live in memory (scrubbed after 30 min) and persist only as an encrypted file — seize the device and there's nothing readable on disk. Panic mode wipes both.

Certificate pinning

The app only trusts our exact servers (hardcoded SPKI pins) — no fake or man-in-the-middle server can slip in between.

Architecture

One message.
Seven layers deep.

Keep scrolling and watch your message get secured step by step — until only unreadable noise remains.

Layer 1 of 7
01

Make the content unreadable

The text turns into code that's useless without the key — and can't be changed afterward.

02

A new key for every message

Every message gets a fresh key. Old ones are thrown away. Crack one, and the rest stay sealed.

03

Handshake without the wait

You and your contact don't need to be online at the same time — the secure connection is built anyway.

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Quantum protection on top

A second layer of encryption that even future quantum computers can't crack.

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Hide the sender

The server sees the message — but not who it's from. Only the recipient can verify that.

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Same size, cover traffic

Every message is exactly 16 KB. Dummy packets fly in between. Length and timing reveal nothing.

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Transport through Tor

The whole thing travels through the Tor network with bridges. Observers see only meaningless traffic.

entry-ch.ladon.app 0/7
01Content lock
02Per-message key
03Async Handshake
04Quantum shield
05Sealed Sender
0616 KB + Cover
07TLS 1.3 · Tor
YOUR MESSAGE
▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓
16 KB · padded sealed sender
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What the others don't have.

Other messengers promise security. Here's who actually delivers what.

Feature LADON messenger Signal WhatsApp Telegram
End-to-end encrypted optional only
New key per message
Quantum-safe
Sender hidden
Built-in Tor
Cover traffic
No phone number required
No contact upload
Servers in a safe language (Rust) unknown

LADON messenger is a young project and has not yet had an external audit. Signal remains, for most users, the gold standard. Our goal: to raise the technical bar beyond Signal — audits and open source are planned.

Join the waitlist
Formally verified

Not just promised. Formally modeled.

LADON messenger's protocol is formally modeled in ProVerif, a cryptographic verification tool. Five security properties are written as machine-checkable queries:

Secrecya network attacker never learns the message content.
Authenticationa message provably comes from the real sender.
Forward secrecypast messages stay safe even if keys later leak.
Key confirmationboth sides derive the exact same session key.
Unknown-key-share resistanceno third party can hijack a session.
Signatures

Post-quantum signatures

Identities are signed with Dilithium3 (ML-DSA-65) — authenticity that holds even against quantum computers.

Keys

Fresh keys every 48h

Signed prekeys rotate automatically every 48 hours — fresh key material on a tight cycle.

Push

Notifications without content

A push only signals "new data" — Apple never sees who wrote or what. Or switch to polling-only.

Radical honesty

What we don't have yet.

LADON messenger is a young project. We want to do it right — but we're open about where we're not there yet.

Not open source yet

The source code will be published. Right now it isn't public yet.

No external audit yet

We've reviewed a lot internally. But no independent firm has audited the code yet.

Smaller anonymity set

Fewer users means a smaller crowd to disappear into. Signal has an edge here thanks to its size.

iOS only, for now

No Android, desktop or web yet. We get one platform right, then the next.

"We promise nothing we can't prove."
Warrant Canary

Signed
proof of independence.

Every quarter we sign a statement that we have received no secret government requests. If it ever disappears without explanation — you'll know.

Canary valid
… days remaining
Signed with Ed25519

"LADON messenger has received no government requests to hand over user data. LADON messenger has not been forced to build a backdoor. LADON messenger has not cooperated with any authority to weaken its encryption. LADON messenger is subject to no secret court orders or gag orders."

Signed 2026-03-21
Valid until 2026-06-24
Public Key (Ed25519) E/fQCMWcNxGh6b0uCUmkiHZ2puAksVQ2LQpS7PkIRy8=
FAQ

Questions you should ask every messenger.

Technically, LADON messenger has protection layers Signal doesn't offer today: cover traffic, split knowledge across two servers, a hidden sender, quantum-safe signatures. Signal, in turn, has years of independent audits and hundreds of millions of users. Security is more than code — it's trust, scrutiny and reach. For most users, Signal remains the right choice today.
If someone records your encrypted messages today, they will likely be able to decrypt them with quantum computers within a few years. LADON messenger combines classical and quantum-safe encryption. So messages you send today stay private even in 2035.
Your keys exist only on your device. There's no cloud backup and no recovery service. You'd have to scan new QR codes with your contacts. That's inconvenient — but no one can steal your keys from a cloud.
No. Neither we nor the server operator can decrypt anything. A seizure turns up only encrypted data packets — with no information about who sent them or where they're going.
LADON messenger automatically sends fake messages at regular intervals through the same line as your real ones. An observer can't tell what's real and what's just camouflage.
From you — through a simple monthly subscription. That's the point: when you pay for the app, you're the customer, not the product. No ads, no trackers, no selling your data. Ever.
A small team's focus: get one platform right before tackling the next. Android is on the roadmap.
Waitlist · Beta 2026

Hear it first.
We don't advertise.

LADON messenger launches in 2026. Get a single email when the App Store build is live — no marketing, no follow-ups. Promised.

You'll get a confirmation email. Your address is used only for the launch notification.