Signal is good. Telegram is popular. But neither gives you vouched membership, community governance, local trade, and a safety beacon alongside your encrypted chats. ETC is not just a messaging app — it is a movement built to endure, with messaging at its core that cannot be compromised and a community that cannot be bought.
Signal and Telegram do one thing well. ETC does that same thing — and then gives you a community, a marketplace, governance, safety tools, and a local economy alongside it.
The architecture ensures your messages are private — not a promise that could be broken by a court order, a data breach, or a change in company policy.
Someone who knows you invites you in. Every member traces back through vouches to the founding members. No anonymous accounts. This is what makes the messaging network genuinely trustworthy.
Install ETC on iOS, Android, web, Windows, Mac, or Linux. Messages sync across all your devices. Compose offline — messages queue locally and deliver automatically when connectivity returns.
Direct messages are end-to-end encrypted between you and the recipient. Keys are generated on your device and never transmitted to ETC servers. We technically cannot read your messages.
Browse community groups relevant to you — neighbourhood response, home education, mutual aid, local trade. All group messages are end-to-end encrypted between all members.
For sensitive coordination, set messages to auto-delete after 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days. The trail clears automatically.
Full message search within conversations. Export your conversation history at any time in standard formats. Your data is always portable. You are never locked in.
A village committee of 12 had been running their community across three WhatsApp groups, two email lists, and a shared Google Drive. Important decisions got lost in chat history. New members had no access to the archive. Everything was on Meta's servers.
Moving to ETC took one afternoon. Every member was already in the community — the invite chain was short. Within a week they had structured groups for each committee function, a searchable archive of decisions, and encrypted storage for sensitive documents.
Six months later, the neighbouring village asked how they'd organised it. They vouched in the committee chair as ETC's newest member. The community grew through trust — exactly as it was designed to.
We moved our whole village committee off email and WhatsApp into ETC. Everything stays within the community. Everything is searchable. Everything is private.
Member features are included in both tiers. Builder features are highlighted — they come with the Founding Builder tier.
Messages encrypted on your device before leaving it. Keys never leave your device. ETC cannot read your messages — by architecture. Not a policy promise.
Standard groups for community coordination. Encrypted groups for sensitive coordination where even ETC cannot see the content. You choose which type for each group.
One-way broadcast channels for community announcements. Build an audience within a trusted community. No algorithm deciding who sees your content.
iOS, Android, web, Windows, Mac, Linux. Messages sync across devices. Offline-first — compose when disconnected, deliver automatically when connectivity returns.
Topic-based community discussions, Q&A threads, and searchable knowledge archive. The community's collective intelligence, organised and permanent.
Set messages to auto-delete after 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days. For sensitive coordination where you want the trail to clear automatically.
Share photos, documents, voice notes, and video clips. All encrypted in transit and at rest. Attachment limits scale with membership tier.
Search conversations by sender, keyword, or date. Export your history at any time. Your data is always portable — you are never locked in.
The founding window is currently set to close in late 2026. After that, new members pay from £4/month. Founding membership locks in access for life.
+ from £4/month after launch · 14-day cooling-off
+ from £4/month after launch · 14-day cooling-off
ETC is a Private Members Association — a community of real, vouched men and women organising together. The platform is the tool we use to do that. Your founding membership funds both: the community and the software that serves it. No outside investors. No advertisers. No data sold.
No commitment yet — just tell us you're interested. We'll reach out when beta access opens for your area.
We'll be in touch when ETC opens in your area.
If you know someone who'd benefit — tell them.
Your vouch is the most valuable thing you can give them.
ETC has 23+ modules live in beta — from secure messaging and a community economy to education, governance, podcasting, video, and a community health farm. Most features have basic functionality now, with advanced capabilities added as members request and vote for them.