Safety & trust

Wasl is private by default and transparent by choice. Here is what that means in practice.

Private by default

A Wasl space belongs to two people. There are no public profiles, no discovery, and no strangers. Messages, mood check-ins, and shared memories are encrypted, and you can add a PIN lock so the app stays private on your own phone. When you use translation, your message text is processed to produce the translation before it is stored in encrypted form.

The trusted chaperone

Some couples — often because of family, cultural, or faith expectations — want their communication to be transparent to someone they both trust. Wasl supports this with an optional trusted chaperone: a person the couple invites into their space with read-only access.

• A chaperone is invited knowingly. Both partners can see that the space is chaperoned.
• In a chaperoned space, the chaperone can read the couple's messages and see what they share. Nothing in a chaperoned space is designed to carry text the chaperone cannot read.
• Wasl is not built for secret side channels. If transparency is the agreement, the app keeps that agreement.

Looking after the space

Wasl has reporting tools and takes misuse seriously. Reported content can be reviewed, and accounts that abuse the platform can be restricted or removed.

What Wasl is not

Wasl is a place to stay close — it is not a substitute for real conversations with your family, for counseling, or for legal, immigration, or religious guidance. We try to make honest software; we won't promise more than that.

For the formal details, see our Privacy Policy and Terms.