Chitchatter

Chitchatter is a secure, serverless peer-to-peer chat app that enables decentralized, ephemeral conversations with end-to-end encryption.

🚀 Overview

Chitchatter is a free, open-source web app for private, secure chatting that runs entirely in the browser without any central servers. Using WebRTC, it connects users directly for messaging, voice/video calls, screen sharing, and file transfers—all end-to-end encrypted and ephemeral, meaning no message history is stored anywhere.

It solves the problem of centralized chat services that track users, store data indefinitely, and pose privacy risks. Instead, Chitchatter is fully decentralized, anonymous by default, and leaves no trace after participants disconnect.

Built for privacy-conscious individuals, teams needing quick secure chats, and developers wanting to embed chat functionality effortlessly.

What problem does this project solve? Traditional messaging apps rely on servers that log conversations and metadata; Chitchatter eliminates intermediaries for true privacy.
Who is it built for? Anyone seeking simple, secure P2P communication—privacy advocates, indie devs, ephemeral group chats.
Why did you build it? To create the simplest tool for private connections without trusting big tech servers, as envisioned by creator Jeremy Kahn.

✨ Key Features

End-to-end encrypted P2P messaging, audio/video chat, screen sharing, and unlimited file sharing in multi-user rooms
Public/private rooms, direct messaging, conversation backfill, and multiline Markdown support with syntax highlighting
Embeddable web component (<chat-room />) for adding chat to any website with one line of code
Dark/light themes, automatic peer verification, no accounts or persistence—fully ephemeral
Optional: upcoming community features via PRs