Friday Meet checking…

Secure video messaging

A meeting nobody in the middle can sit in on.

Up to five people, on hardware we own. The video is sealed between the browsers in the call. The machine that carries it holds no key, so it cannot watch and it cannot record.

Not a promise we're asking you to take on trust — an ability we removed. There is no account to make and nothing is kept after you hang up.

Start a meeting

You'll get a link to send. Up to four other people can join, and you let each one in by hand — anyone waiting hears hold music, and can mute it.

The difference

What the big platforms do that we don't

None of this is an accusation — it's how Zoom, Teams and the rest are built, and mostly they say so themselves. It's just worth knowing what you agree to when you click join.

 The big platformsFriday Meet
Who can watch The meeting is decrypted on their servers. It has to be — that's how a platform mixes video, records it and streams it out. ✓Nobody. Keys are agreed between the browsers. Our relay never takes part, so it forwards sealed frames it has no way to open.
Recording Any host can record, and on most platforms it lands on the company's servers. ✕Not built. No code for it, no server holding a key that could. Nobody can switch it on later — us included.
After the meeting Attendance, timestamps, chat logs, and increasingly an AI transcript by default. ✕Nothing kept. The room is memory on a server, deleted when the last person leaves. Nothing to hand over, because nothing exists.
Accounts Email, password, profile, often a phone number. ✕None. A first name, so the others know who joined. Nothing to sign up for or delete.
Who met whom Even without watching, the platform knows who was in a room together and for how long. Often that's the valuable part. ✓Not recorded. The server sees three connections while a call runs and writes none of it down.
Your IP address Visible to the platform, and on some peer-to-peer calls to the other participants. ✓Hidden from everyone. All video goes via the relay, so no one on the call learns anyone's address.
Selling your data They promise not to. A promise lasts as long as the company — through a buyout, a breach, or a court order. ✓Nothing to sell. We removed the ability instead of making the promise.

Under the hood

How it actually works

Three steps, and only the first one involves a server of ours.

01 / Introduction

Finding each other

Two browsers behind two home routers can't find each other alone. A small server of ours introduces them. That's all it does — it never sees a frame.

02 / Handshake

Agreeing the keys

The browsers agree encryption keys directly with one another. Everything after this point is sealed between them and nobody else.

03 / Relay

Carrying it blind

Sealed video passes through a small machine we own, which forwards it without being able to open it — and shields everyone's address in the process.

The trade

And what we don't do

The trade is real. If any of this is what you need, use something else — we'd rather say so now than have you find out mid-meeting.

  • Five people maximum. Every person's video goes to every other person — that's what keeps a server out of the middle, and it's also why the number is small. Past three the picture softens automatically so the person with the weakest connection isn't the one everybody watches freeze.
  • No recording. Not a setting we turned off. It doesn't exist.
  • No webinars and no breakout rooms.
  • No calendar integration. You send a link.
  • No phone dial-in. A browser, on any device.