Ahoy finds the people who are physically near you — right now — over Bluetooth. Wave at someone you like; when they wave back, it is a match, and you can talk.
No Google Play? Download the APK · try the demo in your browser
Press AHOY and the people around you with Ahoy can see you. You stay in the room — even if the app restarts — until you press Exit. Exit is free and instant.
A wave does not say who sent it. Wave back, and if it was them, it is a match. Can’t wait? «See who» shows you, for a small price — never someone who is Anonymous.
A mutual wave is a match — your two faces meet on the screen — and opens an end-to-end encrypted chat, phone to phone.
You are in the middle; everyone else sits on a ring for roughly how close they are. Never metres, never a direction.
Pick one of six ready-made lines and it reaches everyone around you for five minutes, full screen. People who already have you on their radar see who sent it, as they see you there, and can wave, see your card, or simply close it. Never typed text.
The one wave that says who sent it, and puts you first in their cards. One free every day.
Anonymous: you are “Someone nearby”, and your name and photo go only to a match or to someone you Super Wave. Boost: you come first in the room. They are the two switches on the home screen, and within the four hours you can switch them off and on as often as you like.
Profiles, photos, matches and messages travel directly between phones and are stored encrypted on yours. We do not receive them and could not hand them over.
Only between AHOY and Exit: a random identifier that changes about every 15 minutes, whether Anonymous is on, and, for five minutes after you use the Megaphone, the number of its line. Never your name, photo or location. The broadcast is not encrypted, so a scanner can tell that someone nearby runs Ahoy — not who.
Your profile, waves and, after a match, messages — only after an encrypted handshake between two phones, end to end.
No distance in metres, no direction, no “last seen”. No message before a mutual wave. Block is silent; Report blocks too and lets you send the report to us. 18+ only.
The full texts: Privacy policy · Terms · Child safety.
What is never sold
Nobody pays to get out of a room.
In Greek or English, following your phone. In this website’s build, Anonymous and Boost are open to everyone, and everyone gets one free Super Wave and one free Megaphone a day. Purchases happen in the Google Play version — one-time, never a subscription, never advertising.
Free, for Android 7.0 or newer. Purchases are optional and one-off — never a subscription, never ads. Google Play keeps it up to date by itself.
Already have Ahoy from this website? The two versions are signed differently, so Google Play cannot update one into the other. Back up first (Menu → Settings → “Backup & your data”), uninstall, install from Google Play, and restore the backup.
For phones without Google Play: the same app as an APK from this website. It has no purchases; what is open in this version is listed above. It updates only from here, not from Google Play.
Tap the button and open the downloaded file. If Chrome warns about the file type, download it anyway; the first time, Android asks you to allow installs from your browser. Android 7.0 or newer.
Ahoy finds other phones with Ahoy on; one phone cannot find itself.
Install a newer APK over this one; nothing is lost.
If you have Google Play, prefer it: it updates by itself, and purchases happen there.
Build 0.1.0 (90) · what has changed, including the mistakes
No. Finding people, waving, matching and chatting all run over Bluetooth between phones. The website’s version uses the internet only to check for a new version; the Google Play version, for purchases through Google Play.
As far as Bluetooth: typically a few tens of metres, less through walls and crowds. It is for the place you are standing in.
No. Ahoy uses no GPS and no location service, shows only roughly how close someone is, and has no server to send a location to.
Android first: an iPhone app in the background cannot broadcast a Bluetooth signal that Android phones can find.
Ahoy is on Google Play, free. Bring a friend — it needs company.