Everything you need to write about it.
Covering RelayPony? Help yourself to the facts, the boilerplate, and the brand assets below. Anything missing, just ask: NorseHorse@norsehor.se.
Fact sheet
- Name
- RelayPony
- What it is
- Encrypted peer-to-peer file transfer, phone to phone
- Platforms
- Android (in closed testing on Google Play); iOS planned
- Price
- Free, no in-app purchases, no ads
- Encryption
- age protocol (X25519 + ChaCha20-Poly1305), end to end
- License
- Open source, Apache-2.0
- Source
- github.com/norsehorse-dev/RelayPonyAndroid
- Developer
- NorseHorse, a solo indie developer
- Sibling apps
- PGPony, AgePony, QuorumPony
- Early access
- Join the closed test or get launch notice
- Contact
- NorseHorse@norsehor.se
Boilerplate
Copy whichever length fits. No attribution needed.
RelayPony sends files straight from one Android phone to another, encrypted end to end with the age protocol, with no server, no cloud, and no account.
RelayPony is a free, open-source Android app that sends files directly between two phones. On the same Wi-Fi the phones find each other automatically; with no shared network they connect directly. Every transfer is end-to-end encrypted with the age protocol. There are no accounts, no servers, and no tracking. It is in closed testing on Google Play, with an iPhone version planned.
RelayPony is a free, open-source file-transfer app for Android, built by NorseHorse, a solo independent developer. It sends a file directly from one phone to another instead of routing it through a cloud service. On a shared Wi-Fi network the two phones discover each other automatically using local network discovery; when there is no common network, RelayPony establishes a direct device-to-device link and transfers over that. Every transfer is end-to-end encrypted with the age protocol (X25519 and ChaCha20-Poly1305), the same crypto core used by its sibling app AgePony, and the encrypted stream is carried over a frozen, cipher-agnostic wire protocol. Phones pair by scanning a QR code on a trust-on-first-use basis, with each device identity held in the Android Keystore. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no server of any kind. The app is open source under Apache-2.0. RelayPony is in closed testing on Google Play, with an iPhone version planned, and is part of a small family of privacy tools that also includes PGPony, AgePony, and QuorumPony.
Brand assets
The app icon: a white horse and broadcast mark on an azure shield. Please don't recolor or stretch it.
RelayPony is in closed testing, so please note it isn't publicly available yet when you write about it. For a tester invite or anything else, email NorseHorse@norsehor.se.