Peers-Touch

Chat, share, and stay connected — on a social network nobody else controls.

Your friends, messages, and memories live in a Station you own — not on a company's servers.

Stations talk to each other like email. You reach anyone, anywhere, with no platform in the middle.

Website · How it works · Roadmap

Peers-Touch — Your social world belongs in your own hands.

_{Desktop + Mobile Chat}

Agent — Personal AI assistant with tools, context, and permissions

_{Agent — your personal AI on your Station}

What you can do

Chat — direct messages and group conversations, with reactions, photos, and rich media.
Share — post to a private feed (Moments) visible only to friends you choose.
Connect — add friends across independently run Stations.
Ask your AI — an assistant on your devices and your data. Pick your model, set the rules.
Extend — install applets on your Station.
Use it daily — native macOS, Android, and iOS apps that work offline and sync in the background.

How it works

Every user runs (or joins) a Station — a personal server on a NAS, Raspberry Pi, or cloud VM. Your Station holds your identity, contacts, messages, and content. Stations connect through open protocols, forming a federated network. Think of it like email: you pick your provider (or run your own), and you can still talk to everyone.

Architecture

How the network works — Stations federate through open protocols

What's ready

Desktop (macOS) and mobile (Android / iOS, in development) apps with chat, social feed, AI assistant, applets, and federation across Stations. Voice/video calls and end-to-end encryption are in development.

Try it

Just want to use it? Download links and hosted Stations are coming soon. Star the repo to get notified.

Developers — run it locally:

make profile local     # Configure for local development
make station           # Start your Station (Go + PostgreSQL via Docker)
make desktop           # Open the desktop app

Sign in, add a friend, send a message. Test accounts: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (password: 1).

Requires: pnpm 9+, Go 1.22+, Rust, Docker. Full setup guide →

For developers: repo layout and contributing

Repository

apps/
  station/         Go backend — Hertz + DDD subservers + PostgreSQL
  desktop/         Tauri + React/TypeScript + Rust
  mobile/          Tauri v2 Mobile + Rust kernel
  applets/         Official applets
  official-site/   Product website (Astro, i18n)
  oauth2-client/   OAuth broker (Vercel)
model/domain/      Protobuf contracts (single source of truth)
packages/          Shared: chat-core, storage, applet-sdk, UI, locales
docs/              Architecture and platform docs
tooling/           Build scripts, agent skills

Contributing

All data models in model/domain/*.proto — no hand-written models.
No mocking — real front-to-back integration, always.
Architecture docs before code for cross-layer changes.
make dev-start before non-trivial work.
Full guide: AGENTS.md

Acknowledgements

Project	What it means for us
Tauri	Native desktop and mobile — not Electron
Hertz	Station's Go HTTP framework
LobeHub / Lobe UI	Desktop UI components
SimpleX Chat	Privacy-first messaging inspiration
Protocol Buffers + prost	Cross-platform contracts
libp2p	Peer identity for federation
SQLCipher	Encrypted on-device storage
React + Ant Design	Frontend rendering and design

License

MIT

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