Your conversations and communities, together.

A real messaging product, not something else.

ELM is one social and communication app created by ELM HQ. Messenger and elm.social are no longer presented as separate products.

It is built for personal communication, spaces, creator interaction, encrypted voice, and controlled private communication. It is not a marketing automation tool, not a developer library, and not a game engine.

ELM is designed for communication and social presence that feel more alive, more expressive, and more human than typical mass-market messaging or attention-driven social apps.

Not another generic chat app.

ELM is not designed to be another generic messaging or social product where everything feels flat, disposable, and interchangeable.

It is built to make communication feel more expressive, more personal, and more connected again — without needing to become noisy, overloaded, or chaotic.

That includes presence, status, themes, encrypted voice, chat locking, creator monetisation tools, and a stronger sense that communication belongs to real people rather than anonymous message bubbles floating in a generic interface.

Spaces are back inside Messenger.

ELM includes Spaces, making it possible for communication and communities to sit closer together when that makes sense.

Spaces work as communities and can be configured in different ways, including open, private, invite-only, or fully hidden.

This gives users and creators more flexibility. Some Spaces are meant to be discoverable. Others are meant to stay controlled, restricted, or invisible unless access is granted directly.

Hub and Spaces do different jobs.

Inside the ELM environment, Hub is the creator-driven content layer, while Spaces work more like communities.

That separation matters because it helps keep the platform clearer. Creator content does not have to behave like a community, and communities do not have to behave like a creator feed.

Messenger can now connect more naturally with both, without everything collapsing into one mixed surface.

Chats can be tied to location.

ELM is also expanding into GPS-based chat behaviour, allowing chats to appear only at a certain location or remain hidden unless the user is within a tightly controlled radius.

This creates room for more contextual communication, where a chat can belong to a place rather than simply existing everywhere by default.

By design, this kind of visibility is intended to stay controlled, with hidden-by-default behaviour and a tighter geographic boundary.

Built with modern encryption and stronger privacy architecture.

ELM is designed with modern encryption and privacy architecture across identity, session setup, message protection, media handling, and server-side storage.

Account protection begins before a user changes a setting. ELM's own two-step sign-in protection is enabled by default; when a new device needs approval, the system requires another compatible signed-in device that has been active recently, rather than relying on a stale installation simply because it once belonged to the account.

Message transport uses an Ed25519 identity key, X25519 prekeys and session setup, AES-256-GCM for message encryption, and HKDF-SHA256 for secure key derivation.

In simpler terms, that means ELM is built around modern 256-bit elliptic-curve cryptography for identity and session establishment, 256-bit authenticated symmetric encryption for protected message payloads, and standard secure key derivation for session material.

Media handling is also protected, with encrypted media support and data stored encrypted on the server side. Privacy is not treated as a front-end slogan alone — it extends into how message and media data are handled structurally.

Cursor-based encrypted handling is also part of the wider design direction, helping reduce how messaging data is exposed or represented in a simple, easily readable way across the system.

Privacy is part of the system, not a marketing layer.

ELM is intended to give users more control over how communication feels, how it is protected, and how much of their messaging life has to rely on generic third-party patterns.

That includes stronger protection of messages and media, more control inside chats, more structured separation between communication layers, and more room for messaging to remain personal rather than being flattened into a generic utility.

Messenger and social now live together.

“ELM Messenger” and “elm.social” describe capabilities inside the current ELM product, not two products users have to choose between.

Private chats and encrypted voice sit beside identity, profiles, spaces, presence, creators and discovery. The interface keeps those contexts clear while the account, application and platform remain one.

Combining them does not mean making private conversation public. Each surface keeps the audience and privacy rules appropriate to what the user is doing.

Part of the wider ELM communication environment.

ELM is more than social. It is a secure communication platform designed for trusted interaction between people, systems, AI, and connected infrastructure.

Within the wider ecosystem, ELM carries personal communication and social interaction. It works alongside Viewsly, Eliza and the European infrastructure behind them.

This is what allows messaging to feel more intentional while still remaining part of something larger.