Communication

End-to-end encrypted messaging, one-click video calls, and notifications that reach you in your language. All built on the open Matrix protocol with a homeserver run by Parahub — your address username@parahub.io is also your Matrix ID.

End-to-end encrypted
Messages are encrypted on your device and readable only by participants. Parahub runs the server but cannot read your chats.
Pick your client
Three chat apps to choose from — full-featured desktop, lightweight, or mobile-first. One click and you're in with your Parahub account; no separate registration. The chat built into Parahub also records voice messages.
Video calls
Call any user straight from their profile, or open a named room for a group call. Incoming calls ring in the browser in real time.
Notifications
New chat messages, contract updates, debts, verifications, incoming calls and more — as live toasts while you browse and as push notifications when the app or browser is closed, in your language. A chat alert names who wrote and where, never what.

An open protocol, not a walled garden

Matrix is an open federated standard: your conversations aren't locked into Parahub, and standard Matrix apps can connect to the same account.

Use a native Matrix app

Prefer a dedicated app on your phone or computer? Any Matrix client that signs in through the browser works — for example Element X or SchildiChat Next on mobile, or Element on desktop.

  1. Install the app and choose to enter a server address manually.
  2. Enter parahub.io as the server.
  3. Your browser opens — sign in with your usual Parahub email and password and confirm. That's it.

The app asks you to confirm the new session?

Choose the recovery key and enter your chat recovery key — in Parahub it is under Profile → Security → Chat recovery key, made from your 12-word seed phrase. If you set up a recovery key of your own earlier, enter that one instead.

Bots of your own

Members verified in the Web of Trust can run up to three bots — an AI assistant or an automation on their own computer, with their own AI. Parahub gives a bot a chat account, plus the calendars its owner shares with it, and nothing else: it hosts nothing and holds no keys.

Always labelled
Everyone who meets a bot sees that it is a program and whose it is — on its profile, in search and people pickers, and «(bot)» after its chat name. The owner answers for what it does. A bot run from a pseudonym shows the pseudonym, never the main profile.
Connecting it
Create the bot under Profile → Bots and issue a token for each device it runs on. The token is shown once; any standard Matrix library signs in with it. The bot sets up its own encryption.
Pause or delete
Pausing signs the bot out everywhere at once. Deleting it closes its chat account and takes it out of every chat — what it said stays, and its name is never given to anyone else.
Not a person
A bot cannot sign in to Parahub itself, verify anyone, vote, sign contracts or debts, hold a wallet or listings, or join an organization — the server refuses it, whatever the bot sends.

Your mailbox

Your account comes with a mailbox at your own @parahub.io address — Webmail in the menu opens it, with no separate password. To keep invoices or newsletters out of the inbox, give out your address with a word after a plus sign: if your address is alice@parahub.io, use alice+invoices@parahub.io. Mail sent there goes into a folder of that name under the inbox, created with the first message. Any word works.

Webmail counts unread mail in the inbox only, and so does the badge in the menu. To see counts on these folders too, turn on «Fetch count of unseen messages for all mailboxes»: the gear next to your name in webmail → Mail → General.

Communication
Open this feature in the app
Related
Talk
Voice messages that arrive in the listener's language, and live face-to-face translation on one phone
Calendars
Calendars synced with your phone's own calendar app — sharing, busy only, and your events and bookings
Events
Meetups and workshops with automatic group chats