ZERO connects you straight to the person you're talking to — no company server sitting in the middle, no ad network logging what you said. Scan the radar, find someone close by, start talking in seconds.
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How it actually works
Three steps. No middleman.
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Scan the radar
Open the Radar tab and ZERO checks who's nearby and open to chatting. You control whether you're visible — switch it off any time.
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Connect directly
Tap someone and your phone opens a direct line straight to theirs. Nothing routes through a central server sitting in the middle, reading along.
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Talk, scrambled
Every message, call, and file is locked (that's what "end-to-end encrypted" means) before it leaves your phone. Only the two of you hold the key to unlock it.
What you get
Everything you need. Nothing watching you.
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Find Nearby
Radar-based discovery shows people open to connecting around you. Distance only, never your exact location pin.
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Zero Tracking
No ad network, no analytics farm, no "anonymous" data resale. We don't build a profile on you to sell to anyone.
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Direct Voice & Video
Calls connect phone-to-phone directly. Sharper, faster, and nobody's recording server sits in between.
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Offline-Friendly
Lost signal mid-chat? Your message waits and sends the moment you're back online — automatically.
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Ghost Mode
Go invisible on the radar whenever you want. Premium members can vanish from discovery without logging out.
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You Decide What's Kept
Chats live on your device, not ours. Clear them whenever you like — there's no cloud copy left behind.
Privacy, plainly explained
Your conversation is yours. That's the whole idea.
"End-to-end encrypted" sounds technical, so here's the plain version: before your message leaves your phone, it gets scrambled into nonsense. It only unscrambles on the other person's phone. Anyone intercepting it in between — including us — sees garbage, not your words.
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Messages scrambled in transit
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Ads reading your chats
Direct
Phone-to-phone connection
Premium
One plan. Everything unlocked.
ZERO's core features — direct chat, calls, and discovery — are free, forever. Premium adds control for people who want more of it.
Free
$0
Direct encrypted chat
Direct voice & video calls
Find Nearby radar
Offline message queue
Best value
Premium
$69one-time
Everything in Free
Ghost Mode — stay off the radar
Hide your distance from others
Create private Circles & groups
Priority support
Somebody nearby is waiting to talk.
No account spam, no endless permissions. Open ZERO and scan the radar.
Legal
Terms of Service
Last updated: June 2026
1. What ZERO is
ZERO is a direct messaging and calling app. Most of what you do in the app — chats, calls, your local message history — happens directly between your device and the device you're connecting with, rather than passing through and sitting on our servers.
2. Your account
You're responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your device secure. Don't impersonate someone else, harass other users, or use ZERO's radar discovery to stalk or track anyone — accounts found doing this will be suspended.
3. Premium ($69, one-time)
Premium is a single one-time purchase that unlocks Ghost Mode, distance hiding, Circles, and priority support for that device/account. There are no recurring subscription charges under the current plan. Refunds are handled case-by-case — contact support within 7 days of purchase if something went wrong.
4. Acceptable use
No illegal activity, no sharing content that exploits or endangers minors, no harassment, no spam or scraping of other users' data, no attempting to reverse-engineer or abuse the radar/discovery system. Violating this can mean immediate account termination.
5. Law enforcement & legal requests
We're finalizing the exact process for this section with legal counsel, and it will be updated before general launch. The short version for now: because most chat content lives on your own device rather than our servers, there is very little for us to hand over even if asked. Where we do hold limited account or technical information, we may be required by law to disclose it in response to a valid legal request (such as a court order), and reserve the right to do so. We'll publish the finalized policy here, including how we'd notify affected users where legally permitted.
6. No warranty
ZERO is provided "as is." Direct connections depend on your network conditions and we can't guarantee uninterrupted service.
7. Changes
We may update these terms as the app evolves. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised terms.
Your messages, chat history, and media are stored locally on your own device. They are not routed through or kept on a central ZERO server during normal use — that's the entire point of a direct, device-to-device connection.
What we do collect
To make the app function, we hold a minimal account record (username, optional profile photo, age if provided) and approximate location data only while you're actively using radar discovery — never a precise, continuous location trail.
What we never do
We don't sell your data to advertisers, we don't build an ad-tracking profile on you, and we don't read your message content as part of normal operation, since it isn't stored on our side to begin with.
Law enforcement requests
This section is currently being finalized with legal counsel and will be updated ahead of general launch. As things stand: because chat content is stored on-device, we have very little message content capable of being handed over. For the limited account/technical data we do hold, we may be legally required to disclose it in response to valid legal process such as a court order, and we reserve the right to comply with such requests. The complete, finalized policy — including notification practices — will be published here before this clause is treated as final.
Notifications & push
We use a third-party push notification provider to deliver alerts when you get a message. This requires a device token, which is not the same as your message content.
Your controls
You can delete your local chat history at any time from within the app, switch off radar visibility, and request account deletion via support.
ZERO is an encrypted, direct peer network for messaging and calls — built around one idea: the people talking should be the only people who can read it.
