PING // FRIENDS-FIRST CHAT
Own your name. Bring your people.
Ping is chat built around a username you actually own. Claim your @handle, add friends by name, and talk in real time. No phone numbers. No feed. No noise.
NO PHONE NUMBER · NO FEED · FREE
- handle
- @superman
- friends
- 24 connected
- member
- since 2026
- status
- “up for a chat”
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps to a real conversation.
Claim your handle
Pick a @username that's yours. Unique, permanent, and the only thing friends need to find you.
Add your people
Send a request by handle. They accept. That's the whole friend graph — no numbers, no imports.
Talk in real time
Live presence, typing dots, instant delivery. Open a thread and just talk.
WHAT YOU GET
Everything a chat app needs. Nothing it doesn't.
A handle you own
Your @name is your identity across Ping. No real name required.
Add by handle
Friend requests in, requests out. Accept the people you actually know.
Instant DMs
Messages land the moment you hit send, with typing and read presence.
See who's around
A quiet online dot next to every friend. No last-seen surveillance.
No phone number
Sign up with a handle, not your contacts. Nothing gets scraped.
Free forever
The core of Ping — usernames, friends, chat — costs nothing.
A LIVE THREAD
Just handles, timestamps, and what was said.
No blue-ticks anxiety, no algorithmic reordering. A Ping thread reads like a clean log between two people who chose to talk.
WHAT'S NEXT
The roadmap, in the open.
Group rooms
Bring a handful of handles into one thread.
Voice notes
Tap, talk, send. Gone after they hear it.
Custom status
A line under your handle: “heads down”, “up for a call”.
Disappearing chats
Per-thread timers that clear the history for both sides.
Profile themes
Make your handle card yours — still monochrome-first.
GET STARTED
Your handle is waiting.
Be one of the first — claim your @username before someone else does.