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Everything Polymorph does.

The full list, as of version 1.1.0. Anything marked Premium needs a Premium plan; everything else is in Free.

Accounts and devices

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  • Sign up with a handle and a display name, no phone number or email address
  • Check whether a handle is free while you type it
  • Get a user key and a secret key at sign-up, shown once
  • Save your keys to your password manager iPhone, iPad, Android and macOS
  • Save your keys as a key QR image, or copy them
  • Sign in with your user key and secret key, or with your saved key QR
  • Add a device by scanning a QR code or typing a code, and approve it from a device you're signed in on
  • Compare a verification code on both devices when you add one
  • Stay signed in on a device, or sign in fresh each time
  • See every device on your account, with when each was last online
  • Sign out another device, or remove a lost one
  • Devices that stay offline for 7 days are signed out automatically
  • Sign out and remove this account's data from the device
  • Delete your account on every device; an active subscription is cancelled first

Contacts and handles

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  • Add someone by their handle, with an optional note of up to 280 characters
  • Nobody can message you until you accept their contact request
  • Sending a request doesn't tell you whether a handle exists
  • Accept or decline requests, from their own filter in the chat list
  • Retract a request you sent
  • Change your handle once a month
  • Give a contact a nickname only you see
  • Keep a private note about a contact
  • Save a contact's birthday and get a reminder for it
  • See upcoming birthdays in their own filter
  • Block and unblock people, and review blocked accounts in Settings
  • Report an account for spam, harassment, impersonation or something else

Personas

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One account, a different name, photo, status and privacy settings for different people.

  • Use 2 Personas, including your default one
  • Unlimited Personas Premium
  • Give each Persona its own display name, photo, status and colour
  • Label a Persona with a name only you see, like "Close friends"
  • Choose the Persona you use when you add someone or start a group
  • Move contacts and groups from one Persona to another
  • Filter the chat list by Persona
  • Mute a whole Persona
  • Choose per Persona who sees you online: nobody, online only, or online and last seen
  • Turn typing indicators and read receipts on or off per Persona
  • Animated profile pictures (GIF) Premium

Chats and groups

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  • Chat one-to-one or in groups
  • Pin chats to the top of the list
  • Archive chats you want out of the way
  • Filter chats: For you, Unread, Groups, Chats, Calls, Birthdays and Archived
  • See mentions, replies and missed calls together under For you
  • Mute a chat for 1 hour, 8 hours, 1 week or always, with or without @mentions
  • Reply to, forward, copy and react to messages
  • Edit your sent messages
  • Delete a message for yourself, or your own message for everyone
  • Select several messages to forward or delete them
  • Pin a message for yourself, or for everyone in the chat
  • See when your messages are sent and read, and who has read them in a group
  • See when someone is typing
  • Search inside a chat and step through the results
  • Browse a chat's shared media, files and links
  • Give a chat with a contact its own background
  • Export a chat's text as a .txt file
  • Create a group with a name and a picture, and invite contacts or handles
  • Group roles: owner, admin and member
  • Make or remove admins, remove members and transfer ownership
  • Turn on broadcast mode so only the owner and admins post, while everyone can still react
  • Mention everyone with @all, or everyone online with @here
  • Leave a group, or delete it as its owner

Sending and media

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  • Write messages of up to 4,096 characters with bold, italics, strikethrough, code, lists, quotes, headings and links
  • @mention people
  • Link previews made by the sender, so recipients never open the link to show them; you can turn them off
  • Send photos, videos, audio, files and voice messages
  • Send attachments up to 50 MB
  • Send attachments up to 1 GB Premium
  • Send photos and videos in original or high quality instead of optimized Premium
  • Record a voice message, slide to cancel, or lock it to record hands-free
  • Take a photo or record a video from the chat
  • Drop files onto a chat to send them Desktop
  • Share text and files from other apps into a chat Phone and tablet
  • Edit a photo before you send it
  • Send a message silently, with no sound or notification
  • Send a message, photo, video or voice message that can be viewed once
  • Schedule a message up to a year ahead; it arrives on time even if your device is off
  • Send one message separately to up to 10 chats
  • Send one message separately to up to 250 chats Premium
  • Send a one-time location, or pick a place on the map
  • Share your live location for 15 minutes, 1 hour or 8 hours, and stop it any time
  • Keep sharing live location while the phone is locked Phone and tablet
  • Open a shared location in Apple Maps or Google Maps, or copy its coordinates
  • Flip a coin, roll dice, pick from options, shuffle a list or ask the Magic 8-ball with / commands
  • Download received media automatically, by type and size, or only on Wi-Fi
  • Save received photos and videos to the device's photo library Phone and tablet

Expressions

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Emoji, custom emotes, stickers and GIFs, in one panel.

  • Search emoji, emotes, stickers and GIFs, with favourites and recents
  • Make up to 10 custom emotes from your own images, with a :shortcode:
  • Unlimited custom emotes Premium
  • React with emoji or your own emotes
  • Make stickers from a photo: tap what to keep and the background is cut out on your device
  • Draw a sticker's outline yourself, or use a circle or rounded shape
  • Make a GIF of up to 10 seconds from a video: trim, crop, zoom and add text or images
  • Save stickers, GIFs and emotes that others send you
  • Rename, reorder, tag, favourite and delete your expressions
  • Your expressions sync to all your devices

Calls

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Calls are end-to-end encrypted.

  • Voice and video calls with a contact
  • Group voice and video calls in any group, with up to 8 people
  • Join a group call with camera and microphone off to listen only
  • Choose an automatic, grid or presenter layout in a group call, and pin someone
  • Share your screen in a group call
  • Higher video quality in group calls Premium
  • Mute, turn the camera on or off, and switch cameras
  • Switch between earpiece, speaker and Bluetooth Phone and tablet
  • Answer calls from the phone's own call screen Phone and tablet
  • Answer or decline from a notification while Polymorph is open Desktop
  • Keep a video call in picture-in-picture Phone and tablet
  • Push to talk: hold a key or mouse button to speak Desktop
  • Choose the microphone and camera for calls, with a live microphone level
  • Choose the speaker for calls and play a test sound Windows and Linux

Stories

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  • Post a photo or video Story from your camera, photos or Files
  • Choose exactly which contacts see each Story
  • Edit a photo, or turn a video into a GIF, before you post
  • Stories disappear after 24 hours
  • Take a Story down before it expires
  • Stories and view-once messages are hidden from screenshots and screen recordings Phone and tablet

Events and polls

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  • Plan an event in a chat: set a time, suggest 2 to 6 times, or let everyone mark when they're free
  • Add a place, details, all-day events and repeats every week, 2 weeks or month
  • Answer Going, Maybe or Can't, and let guests bring a +1
  • Remind everyone 10 minutes, 1 hour or 1 day before
  • Add an event to your calendar
  • Run a poll with 2 to 10 options, one answer or several
  • Let others add options to a poll, up to 12
  • Show poll results only after voting, and end a poll at a set time
  • Change or withdraw your vote, and see who voted for what

Organize

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Lists, notes, reminders and expenses, next to your chats.

  • Write notes with headings, bold, italics, highlights, lists, checklists and links
  • Notes save as you type and sync to your devices
  • Keep personal to-do lists with categories, drag to reorder and hide what's done
  • Share a to-do list in a chat that everyone can edit
  • Copy a shared list to your own lists, or share a copy of yours
  • Set private reminders that only you see, also from any message
  • Type a reminder in plain English, like "/remind call mum tomorrow at 9"
  • Pick a reminder time from Later today, Tonight, Tomorrow morning or Next week
  • Reminder notifications when Polymorph is closed Not on Linux
  • Split shared expenses in a chat: equally, by amount, by percentage or by shares
  • See who owes whom, and record when someone pays back
  • See what's coming up and overdue at the top of Organize
  • Pin notes, lists and ledgers to the top
  • Restore deleted notes and lists for 30 days

Files

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  • Use Personal Files as end-to-end encrypted cloud storage, on every device
  • 2 GB of encrypted storage for your files and chat media
  • 100 GB, 500 GB, 1 TB or 2 TB of storage, depending on the plan Premium
  • Upload any file to Personal Files and sort it into folders
  • Large uploads resume after an interruption
  • Uploads continue in the background Phone and tablet
  • Keep files available offline, or remove only the copy on this device
  • Rename, move and delete files and folders
  • Restore deleted files for 30 days
  • Search all your files, including your Spaces' files
  • See recent files and a gallery of your photos and videos
  • Preview images, videos, audio, documents and PDFs
  • Send files from Files into a chat
  • Keep both versions when a file changed on two devices
  • See what uses your storage, and clear this device's cache
  • Upload up to 1 MB/s and download up to 3 MB/s
  • Upload up to 10 MB/s and download up to 30 MB/s Premium

Spaces

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A shared workspace for a team, club or family, kept apart from your chats. Every member needs their own Premium.

  • See a Space invitation and decline it
  • Create a Space from a template: Team, Community, Gaming guild, Family or Blank Premium
  • Invite people as admin, editor or viewer, change roles and remove members Premium
  • Roles: owner, admin, editor and viewer, plus badges you define Premium
  • Text channels with topics and categories, arranged by drag and drop Premium
  • Let everyone post in a channel, or only admins and up Premium
  • Private channels for chosen roles, badges or people, with their own keys Premium
  • Archive channels and keep them readable Premium
  • Voice channels people drop into, without ringing Premium
  • Task boards with labels, due dates and assignees, as columns, list, calendar or My tasks Premium
  • Logs for updates, decisions, incidents and milestones Premium
  • Inventories that track amounts and flag low stock Premium
  • Post board and log updates to a channel Premium
  • Shared Space files, with access by role Premium
  • Find files posted in channels in one place Premium
  • An Overview with activity, what's for you and up to 8 pinned items Premium
  • Link to a channel, task, log entry, file or message Premium
  • Search channel messages Premium
  • Share your online status per Space; it's off by default Premium
  • Set how much storage a Space may use Premium
  • Turn boards, logs, inventories and files on or off per Space Premium
  • If your Premium ends, your Spaces stay readable but read-only

Appearance

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  • Light, dark or system mode
  • Two light palettes, Mocha and Bubblegum, and two dark ones, Forest and Twilight
  • Choose an accent colour
  • Choose from 7 fonts
  • Set the app and chat backgrounds to a colour, gradient or image
  • Choose colours or gradients for your messages and the ones you receive
  • Round or rounded-square profile pictures
  • 12-hour or 24-hour clock
  • Appearance settings sync to your devices

Notifications

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  • Do Not Disturb on all your devices at once; calls still ring
  • Quiet hours on a schedule, with or without @mentions
  • Let only the device you're using alert you
  • Turn notifications off on one device only
  • See and unmute every muted chat, Persona and Space in one list
  • Choose whether notifications show the sender's photo, name and the message text
  • Set the volume of Polymorph's sounds
  • Use Polymorph's notification sound or the system sound
  • Turn send sounds, in-chat sounds and ringing on or off
  • Haptic feedback Phone and tablet

Privacy and security

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  • End-to-end encrypted chats, groups, calls, files and Spaces
  • We never hold a copy of your secret key
  • Every device in a chat is checked; messages wait if one can't be verified
  • A notice when a new device is added to your account
  • Hide Polymorph's content in the app switcher Phone and tablet
  • Sticker cut-outs and reminder parsing happen on your device
  • No ads and no tracking

Billing and plans

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  • Free, with no time limit
  • Premium monthly, from €5.99, in four storage sizes; prices include tax
  • Sold through Link, a Stripe company, in 82 countries; pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link or Bancontact (renewals by SEPA Direct Debit)
  • See your plan, renewal date and storage use in Settings
  • Buy or manage Premium at pay.polymorph.pm: link the browser to your account by scanning its code with the app
  • Open your plan on the web straight from the app, without a code Desktop
  • Upgrade, or cancel and resume renewal, on the web
  • Move to a smaller plan in the app, which checks that your files fit first Desktop
  • Pay in your browser; payment details are never entered into Polymorph
  • Billing is kept separate from your account: the payment service doesn't know which account it pays for, and your account holds no billing details
  • Get invoices, change your payment method or cancel in the billing portal, or at link.com

Plan limits are on the pricing page. New features are listed under Updates.