A small software company.Built with big love.

Every product here started as a feeling, not a market analysis. Meet exists because someone we love was struggling to keep up in her second language. We build the thing, we build it private by default, and we don't ship a claim we can't defend.

The Railgun Studio

One studio. A family of privacy-first tools.

Railgun builds the software we wish existed — obsessively private, absurdly fast, and genuinely useful. From encrypted messaging to a support desk, translated meetings, and tracker-free email, every product shares the same principle: your data is yours.

Private Beta

Railgun Messenger

Encrypted chat in private beta.

The native desktop path integrates libsignal when available; browser and development fallbacks use a separately documented encrypted path.

Get the app
Private Beta

Railgun Tickets

Press two keys. IT sees what you see.

A support desk where users press ⌘/ to file a ticket with a privacy-safe visual snapshot and diagnostics already attached.

Open support.railgun.chat
Building

Railgun Meet

Meetings without the language barrier.

Video meetings with live translated captions. Translation latency and accuracy depend on browser, network, and provider conditions.

  • Live translated captions
  • Available on npm
See Meet
Building

Railgun Mail

Email that refuses to be tracked.

Private email at @railgun.chat. Railgun strips inbound tracking pixels and tells you it did — while you stay in control of read receipts.

Explore Mail
Building

Railgun Privacy

Erase yourself from the data brokers.

Automated removal of your personal data from people-search sites and brokers, with ongoing re-scan and takedown.

Learn more
Building

Railgun Marketing

AI outbound that cites its sources.

Agentic prospecting: research, evidence, a fact-checked proposal draft, and your approval before anything sends. Built for our own sales team first.

See how it works
Coming soon

Railgun Private

The private community platform. Coming soon.

The long-term destination: a private community product with communities, DMs, calls, and explicitly documented client-specific encryption boundaries.

  • X3DH + Double Ratchet (planned)
  • Sealed boxes today
  • Curve25519
  • XSalsa20-Poly1305
How the crypto works
How we build

We build what we think is cool.

Railgun isn't a roadmap dictated by a board. Every product here exists because we personally wanted it to — because it was interesting to build, or because someone we care about ran into a problem no one had bothered to fix well. Privacy is the constant; the products are whatever we think is genuinely worth making.

Why Railgun Meet translates in real time

Stella is learning English. In one meeting she sat quietly, trying to keep up with a conversation moving faster than any subtitle tool could follow — the lag turned a normal discussion into an exhausting guessing game. Existing tools were either too slow to be usable or shipped every word to a server that had no business hearing it.

So we built Railgun Meet: video calls over encrypted transport (not end-to-end) with near-zero-latency live translation, so everyone speaks their own language and still keeps up in real time. It exists because a person we love was struggling — and that turned out to be a far better reason to build something than a market analysis ever was.

Ship the useful part first

We'd rather put a genuinely helpful tool in your hands today than promise a perfect everything-platform someday. Meet, Tickets, Mail, and Privacy are usable now or nearly so — the ultra-private community platform is coming, and we'll say exactly where it stands the whole way.

Honest about status

Every product carries a real label — Available, Private Beta, Building, or Coming soon. No vaporware dressed up as shipping. If something isn't done, we tell you it isn't done, and we tell you what it's built on.

Download Railgun

Get Railgun for your platform and start messaging with true privacy. Your keys never leave your device.

Desktop Apps

Windows

Windows 10+ (64-bit)

Download

macOS

macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon & Intel)

Linux

AppImage or .deb package

Download

Mobile Apps

iOS

iPhone & iPad

Coming Soon

Android

Android phones & tablets

Coming Soon
Version 1.1.0Release NotesSource Code

Automatic Updates

Railgun automatically checks for updates and installs them securely. All updates are cryptographically signed to ensure authenticity.

Verify Your Download (Advanced)

1. Download the checksums file:

SHA256SUMS.txt

2. Verify the checksum:

# macOS/Linux sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt --ignore-missing # Windows PowerShell Get-FileHash Rail-Gun-*.exe | Format-List

Security capabilities, precisely stated

Railgun is in private beta. These statements describe current code paths without claiming an audit or guarantees the product has not earned.

libsignal identity keys

The desktop build loads the official libsignal client in the main process to generate the device identity key and prekey bundle. Session establishment and ratcheting are not implemented yet.

Sealed boxes do the encrypting

libsodium sealed boxes are the only direct-message encryption that runs today, and they run when the native libsignal module is absent. They give no Double Ratchet forward secrecy, and the Electron IPC handler does not use them yet.

Local key protection

Desktop key material is protected locally with XChaCha20-Poly1305 before storage.

Encrypted relay envelopes

The relay handles encrypted envelopes. Offline delivery may temporarily queue ciphertext with a retention limit.

Local message history

Client history is designed to remain on user devices; server-side delivery queues are separate and temporary.

Reviewable implementation

The implementation can be inspected in the repository. Railgun does not represent that as an independent security audit.

Implementation status

What exists today

Concrete capabilities from the current codebase, separated from capacity targets and future architecture.

Authenticated relay API

The current backend includes authenticated REST and WebSocket relay paths. Production capacity has not been independently benchmarked.

Encrypted offline queueing

Offline delivery can temporarily retain encrypted envelopes. Railgun does not claim that servers store no ciphertext.

Stripe billing plumbing

Checkout and signed webhook handlers exist for specific products. Availability still depends on production prices, secrets, and webhook configuration.

Beta security posture

Security work is ongoing. No independent audit, production load result, uptime SLA, or multi-region guarantee is claimed here.

Security boundaries

What the beta currently claims

Security depends on the client and code path in use. The statements below are intentionally narrower than a blanket “Signal-grade” claim.

  • Access and refresh tokens are explicitly typed at API boundaries.
  • Native desktop crypto uses libsignal when its native integration is available.
  • The browser/development fallback is labeled separately and does not claim forward secrecy.
  • Private keys are intended to remain client-side; public pre-key bundles are server-visible.
  • Encrypted envelopes may be retained temporarily for offline delivery.
  • No phone number is required for account registration.

Private-beta limitations

Railgun has not completed an independent cryptographic or infrastructure audit. Repository visibility is not a substitute for one.

Published download signatures and a production signing key are not represented as available until the release pipeline produces them.

Do not rely on the beta for high-risk communications without your own review, current threat modeling, and verification of the exact client build.

Read the implementation reference

Available Everywhere

Download Railgun for your platform or use the web version.

macOS

macOS, Windows, Linux

Download

Web App

Web App

Coming Soon

iOS & Android

iOS, Android

Coming Soon

Tell us what you want built.

We take on a small number of client projects — the same people who built Meet, Mail and the Railgun messenger. If it's interesting, we're interested.