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Talk to me here

WhatsApp

Your own WhatsApp. Scan a code, then message yourself.

  • About 1 minutes
  • Your own account, linked
  • No public address
  • Only the chat with yourself
  • Nobody gets in unless you let them

Connect it

WhatsApp has no bots you can make, so Conch joins your own WhatsApp as a linked device, the way WhatsApp Web does. In Conch, open Apps, choose Talk to me here, then WhatsApp. A code is on the page at once.

  1. Open WhatsApp on your phone.
  2. Tap Settings (on Android, ⋮), then Linked devices.
  3. Tap Link a device, and point the phone at the code in Conch.
Link a device

Your personal messages are end-to-end encrypted on all your devices.

That's all. The code changes by itself every minute or so, so there's nothing to press in Conch. Scanning it from your phone is your hello: Conch knows the account is yours.

On a phone? A phone can't scan its own screen. Open Conch on your computer, or on another screen, and scan it there.

Talk to it in Message yourself

Your assistant lives in the chat with yourself (Message yourself, at the top of the list when you start a new chat). Write there from your phone or any device; it answers there, and the conversation is also in Conch.

  1. You:
    Hi Ada! 👋 I’m Conch, and I’m connected to Conch on your computer. Write to me here, in the chat with yourself.
  2. You:
    What’s on my calendar tomorrow?

When it asks before doing something, the question ends with numbers: reply 1 to allow, 2 for always in this chat, 3 to not allow. Plain yes and no work too.

Your friends' chats stay yours

  • Other people who write to you are writing to you, not to your assistant. Conch never reads their chats and never answers them.
  • Groups never hear from your assistant.
  • A number just for your assistant? Turn on A number just for Conch on the channel's page. Then anyone else who writes to it gets one polite reply and waits for you to Let them in, like a bot.

Good to know

  • WhatsApp's terms allow only its own apps. Conch links the way WhatsApp Web does, through Baileys, an unofficial open-source client. WhatsApp can restrict a number it thinks is automated. That's rare for a number only you use; if you couldn't do without yours, link a spare number instead.
  • Your phone keeps its notifications. Conch never says it's online, so WhatsApp keeps telling your phone about new messages.
  • No history. Conch reads what arrives from the moment it's linked, never your past chats.
  • Unlinked on the phone? The channel says so and shows Show the code to link it again. Linking a different number there is refused: connect that one as a new channel.
  • Disconnect in Conch takes Conch off your Linked devices too.