OM A SeedLife project

In design · nothing to download yet

Private messaging that belongs to everyone.

OM is a fast, uncluttered, open-source messenger with strong end-to-end encryption — designed so that no single company, server, or app store is indispensable.

Install OM

Identify yourself

Talk to people

That’s it? 🙂

Why “OM”

One short name, six promises.

  • Open-source Messenger

    A gift to humanity, in the tradition of open commons like Git and Linux: usable, forkable and improvable by anyone.

  • Open Messenger

    Not a walled garden. Independent apps can speak the public protocol without asking permission.

  • Own Messenger

    Make it yours — identity, infrastructure, app, themes and extensions — with no central OM account required.

  • Our Messenger

    Built for people who gather: families, friends, teams and communities, with their own spaces, roles and rules.

  • One Messenger

    Grows through interoperable extensions, so you don’t need a new app every time a group wants a new feature.

  • Oh Messenger

    Approachable, lively and human. The engineering stays under the hood; you just get a pleasant messenger.

How it stays free

Stewarded, not owned.

SeedLife stewards the project, but nobody — not SeedLife, not its founder, not any future steward — gets the right to make your conversations depend on them.

If the original authors, the website, or any company behind a server disappeared, people already talking on OM should be able to keep talking.

Commercial participation is welcome; protocol privilege is not.

Where it’s at

The architecture is being designed now.

There’s no app, code, or sign-up yet. Follow SeedLife to hear when that changes.