Conversation, not consumption
Every screen is built around replies, threads, and rooms — not endless scroll designed to drain your evening.
windnexx v2 — now with audio rooms
Where real conversations actually live.
windnexx is the social network for the people you came online to find — close friends, curious strangers, and the communities that make the internet feel small again. No noise. No bait. Just a place that's actually yours.
Why windnexx
A social network that actually feels social.
Three things shape every pixel and every notification we ship — and three things we'll never compromise on.
Communities first, feeds second
Find your niche in seconds. From running clubs to sci-fi readers — your homepage is the rooms you chose.
Privacy by design
End-to-end encrypted DMs, no shadow profiles, and no behavioral ads. Ever. Your data isn't the product.
Features
Everything you need to actually show up online.
A complete toolkit for sharing, listening, and connecting — across web, iOS and Android.
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Smart Feed
Chronological by default. Add filters for "friends only", "communities", or "deep work" — and windnexx remembers.
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Audio Rooms
Drop-in voice rooms for any community. Raise your hand, get on the mic, save the highlights.
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Encrypted DMs
Messages are end-to-end encrypted by default. Disappearing chats, voice notes, and shared moments included.
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Moments
Tiny posts that vanish in 24 hours. Music, photos, captions — share the small stuff with the people who matter.
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Discover
A curated explore page powered by your interests, not your watch time. Find new people without falling into a hole.
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Calm Tools
Daily limits, quiet hours, mute streaks, and one-tap "take a breath" mode. We help you log off too.
A feed worth opening
Posts that breathe. Replies that matter.
windnexx's feed treats text, photos, links and audio as first-class. No autoplay, no algorithmic poking — just the people and rooms you chose, in the order they posted.
- Long-form, short-form, and threads — all in one composer
- Inline polls, reactions, and quote-replies
- Bookmarks and highlight folders that sync across devices
- "Catch up" mode that summarizes what you missed
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Eli L.
"Just finished the new chapter. Anyone else feel like the side characters carry the whole book?"
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Run-Together Club
"Sunday slow run @ 7am — bring a friend, bring a thermos."
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Sound of
🎧 New playlist: Slow Mornings vol. 9
Audio rooms
Drop in. Speak up. Stick around.
Live voice rooms inside every community. Hosts moderate, listeners react, and the conversation keeps going long after the host calls it a night.
- Up to 5,000 listeners per room with crystal-clear voice
- One-tap "raise hand" + speaker queue
- Auto-transcribed highlights you can share as posts
- Scheduled rooms with calendar invites + reminders
LIVE · 412 listening
"Designing for calm."
Hosted by Tomi K. + 3 others
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Tomi
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Asha
Speaking
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Noor
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Privacy
Your data, locked down by default.
We took the privacy speech everyone hates and turned it into product decisions. windnexx is built to be useful without being invasive — and to prove it.
- End-to-end encrypted DMs and voice notes
- Granular post audiences: public, friends, circle, single person
- One-tap export & delete of everything you've ever posted
- Open-source security audits, published quarterly
End-to-end encryptionON
Behavioral adsNEVER
Profile visibilityFRIENDS
Data export1-CLICK
Trackers0
Trending communities
Find your corner of the internet.
180,000+ communities and counting. Here's a tiny window into what's buzzing this week.
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Bookbinders Anonymous
Slow readers, marginalia hoarders, paperback purists.
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Slow Mornings
Coffee, journaling, sun-spots, and small wins before 9am.
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Sound Of —
Curated playlists, weekly listening parties, vinyl swaps.
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Run-Together
Local meetups, training plans, and "did you really run today?" check-ins.
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Studio Hours
Designers, illustrators, and "is this kerned okay?" critics.
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Sunday Kitchen
Slow-cook recipes, family hand-me-downs, and pantry hauls.
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Deep Reads
Long-form essays, weekly debates, no hot takes allowed.
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Reel Talk
First-watches, midnight theories, and hot takes done politely.
On every screen
Built native. Synced everywhere.
windnexx is a real native app on iOS and Android, a polished desktop experience on Mac and Windows, and a featherweight web client when you need to peek in from anywhere.
- Picks up where you left off — replies, drafts, rooms
- Push, sound, and badge controls at the per-community level
- Offline reading + offline drafts with auto-sync
- Lightweight: under 35MB, opens in under 1 second
How it works
From sign-up to first conversation in under 60 seconds.
No phone-tree onboarding. Three steps, and you're already in a room.
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Claim your handle
Sign up with email or pass-key. Pick a handle that's actually still available — windnexx reserves nothing.
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Pick your interests
Tell us what you're into — books, running, design, music. Your home feed is built around you, not us.
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Say something
Drop your first post, join a room, or reply to a stranger. The first conversation is on us.
Stories
Real people, talking like real people.
What members say after their first month on windnexx.
★★★★★
"I deleted three apps the week I joined windnexx. The feed feels like a group chat with the cool side of the internet."
★★★★★
"Audio rooms hit different here. It's not influencers shouting — it's eight people who actually finished the book."
★★★★★
"I joined for the running community and stayed for the Sunday Kitchen recipes. My phone time went down. My friends list went up."
★★★★★
"It's the first social app where I don't feel like the product. I actually open it on purpose, not by accident."
★★★★★
"My mom is on windnexx. So is my book club. So is my old D&D group. None of them know about each other and that's the magic."
★★★★★
"Calm Tools tells me when I've scrolled enough — and it sticks. I haven't said that about any app, ever."
Yes. windnexx is free forever for everyone. We have an optional windnexx+ plan ($4/month) for power features like room recordings, large file sharing, and custom community themes — but every core social feature is free, with no ads.
Three big differences. One: communities are first-class — your home feed is the rooms you joined, not a black-box algorithm. Two: we don't run behavioral ads, ever. Three: we ship calm tools to help you log off, not stay glued.
DMs and voice notes are end-to-end encrypted by default. We don't sell or share your data with anyone. You can export or delete everything you've ever posted in a single click. Our security audits are public and run quarterly.
Of course — and we make it painless. Invite via email, contacts, or a single shareable link. Friends who join get instantly placed into your circles, so the first scroll is full of familiar faces.
Both. Native apps for iOS and Android, a desktop client for Mac and Windows, and a fast web app at Windnexx.com. Everything syncs the moment you switch devices.
windnexx+ subscriptions, optional Community Pro tools for moderators, and verified-business profiles. We'd rather charge $4 from people who love it than sell the rest of the world to advertisers.
Join windnexx
Reserve your account
Tell us where to send your login details. Free forever, no ads, no tracking, no spam.