The European Snapchat alternative

Share momentsprivately.

Photos, videos and conversations. A private place to keep up with your friends.

End-to-end encrypted.No advertising or advertising tracking in the app.

Get twonly For iOS & Android
twonly chats with friends, stories and groups

Privacy comes first.

Being close to your friends should feel good. So should knowing who can see what you share.

How twonly compares as a Snapchat alternative

Encrypted by default

Your photos, videos and messages are end-to-end encrypted. Only you and the people you share with can see them.

Your data stays yours

No advertising or advertising tracking in the app. We don’t sell your data. An optional subscription helps fund the app.

Just a username

You don’t need a phone number or email address to sign up. Choose a username and invite your friends.

Everyday moments, shared your way.

A quick photo, an inside joke, a memory worth keeping. There’s a place for all of it.

Photos & stories

Let your friends in on your day.

Send a spontaneous photo or video, add text and drawings, or share a story for 24 hours. Stay close, even when you’re far apart.

  • Choose how long sent photos stay visible.
  • Send photos straight to your friends’ home screens.
  • Every photo and video is end-to-end encrypted.
A snow day photo with text and editing tools, ready to share with friends on twonly twonly chats with friends, stories and groups

Story map

See your friends’ stories on a map.

When your friends add a location to a story, it shows up on the map. See where each moment happened, from everyday life to their next big adventure.

  • Follow your friends’ road trips.
  • You decide how long they stay up.
  • Stories and locations are always end-to-end encrypted.
The twonly story map showing 40 stories along two travelers’ road trip, with sticker avatars at their stops and eight photos below

Chats, stickers & games

Your friends. Your kind of fun.

Chat, share a joke, or play together.

  • Text and voice messages, one-to-one or in groups.
  • Turn your photos into stickers.
  • Play chess, Connect Four and more in your chat.
A twonly group chat with a custom bear sticker, message reactions and a voice message A twonly conversation with chess and Connect Four games shared between friends

Memories & backup

Keep the moments that matter.

Save your favourite photos and videos in Memories. Revisit a day out, a shared adventure, or a little moment that still makes you smile.

  • Find your favourite moments in one place.
  • Enable optional, end-to-end encrypted cloud backup.
  • Bring your Memories from Snapchat with the memories importer.
twonly Memories with a one-year-ago photo and a gallery of saved moments organised by month twonly Memories heatmap showing photo locations in Switzerland, with saved photos below the map

Made in Europe. Built in the open.

Built in the open

twonly is open source. The code is public so anyone can see how the app works.

Explore the source code

Developed and hosted in Europe

twonly is developed independently, and the twonly servers are located in Germany.

Meet the people behind twonly

Transparent funding

twonly has a transparent funding model: an optional monthly subscription.

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