Obleevo

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Everything Obleevo does, shown step by step

Short films of the real app, each followed by its steps in writing. They play only when you press play, from this site: no video service, no tracking.

1. Open a room and invite someone

Two people, one link, connected end to end in under a minute.

  1. Type a nickname, tick the box, then press Create a room.
  2. Choose who can get in. Open suits most rooms: the link itself is the key.
  3. You are in your room. Press Invite to bring someone in.
  4. Send the link, show the QR code, or read out the code. The secret in the link never reaches our server.
  5. On the other device, the link opens the room. A nickname, then Join room.
  6. Connected, end to end. The green Verified badge means it really is them.

2. Check who you are talking to

Safety words, a QR code and the connection panel: proof, not trust.

  1. Everyone in the room is listed here, with how they are connected.
  2. Open the menu on a person, then Safety words.
  3. You both see the same words. Same words: nobody is in the middle.
  4. Side by side? Scan the QR code instead of reading the words.
  5. The connection panel shows how you are linked, and runs a privacy checkup.
  6. A look-alike name is called out, so an impostor cannot hide behind one.

3. Send files

Any size, straight from one device to the other, and nothing arrives without Accept.

  1. Press +, or simply drop files on the window.
  2. The other person sees the name, the size and a safety check. Nothing arrives until they accept.
  3. Accept, then choose where to save it.
  4. It goes straight from one device to the other, encrypted, as fast as your connection allows.
  5. Saved, and read back from the disk before it says so.
  6. Several files? Choose which goes first, or send whole folders.

4. Messages

Edit, react, disappear, view once and translate, all encrypted.

  1. Write in the chat. Messages go straight to the others, encrypted.
  2. React, reply, or open a message’s menu.
  3. Edit or delete your own messages, on every screen at once.
  4. Messages that disappear by themselves, 30 seconds after they land.
  5. View once: shown a single time, then gone for good.
  6. Translate other people’s messages on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere.

5. Voice calls

Your microphone opens only when you join, and your voice goes straight to the others.

  1. Press the microphone at the top to join the voice call. Your microphone opens only now.
  2. Everyone on the call has a tile that lights up when they speak.
  3. Mute and unmute in one press.
  4. Sound: Voice for talking, Music for an instrument or a song.
  5. Disguise your voice, on your device, before it leaves.
  6. Raise your hand to ask for the floor.

6. Screen, board and notes

Show your screen, draw on it, and write together, live.

  1. Share a window, a tab or your whole screen.
  2. The others see it live, straight from your device.
  3. Point and draw on the shared screen to show what you mean.
  4. The Board: a whiteboard everyone draws on together.
  5. Notes: write together, as you type. They disappear with the room.

7. Run your room

Who gets in, what the room allows, and how it ends: the host decides.

  1. When you create a room, choose who gets in: open, strict, with a password, or by knocking.
  2. Set its size, and turn files, screen, voice or the board on or off.
  3. In a knock room, you decide who comes in.
  4. Remove someone, or make them host.
  5. Receive files: guests can only send to you, and never see each other.
  6. Burn the room: everything is erased, and everyone is sent out.

8. Hide your IP address

Go through a relay so the others never see your address.

  1. Open Options, under the room card.
  2. Hide my IP: your connection goes through a relay, so the others never see your address.
  3. Test my network tells you what works from where you are.
  4. The result, in plain words.
  5. In the room, the connection panel confirms you are going through the relay.

9. Your vault

Files, notes and passwords in one encrypted file that only you can open.

  1. Open the Vault tab.
  2. Create a vault with a passphrase only you know. We never see it, and cannot recover it.
  3. Add files, notes and passwords.
  4. Save: it all becomes one encrypted file, on your device.
  5. Open it again later, anywhere, with your passphrase.

10. Passwords and 2FA codes

A password manager inside your vault, with no account anywhere.

  1. In an open vault, add a password.
  2. A strong one, generated in a click.
  3. 2FA codes: add the secret once, and the six digits appear here.
  4. Coming from another manager? Import its export file.
  5. Print an emergency kit, so you can always get back in.

11. Your own devices, with or without a server

A private clipboard between your phone and your computer.

  1. Open My devices.
  2. Connect my devices shows a QR code. Scan it with your phone.
  3. A private clipboard between your own devices: text, links and files.
  4. No server: the two devices show each other a code instead. Nothing goes through us.
  5. Scan, show the reply, and you are connected on the same Wi-Fi.

12. Erase, resume and prove

Leave without a trace, pick up a cut download, and prove a hand-over.

  1. Panic: press Esc three times, and you are out with everything wiped. As the host, the room burns for everyone.
  2. A big download cut off? In a new room, pick the partial file: only what is missing is sent.
  3. A receipt signed by both of you proves the file was handed over.
  4. Check a receipt, or this very version of Obleevo, on the Verify page.

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