NeyLivo · Нейливо
What is NeyLivo?
NeyLivo (Нейливо) is a privacy-focused extensible messaging platform for private conversations, communities, calls, music and user-created plugins.
In plain terms: NeyLivo is an app you talk to people in. You can write to someone directly, create a server with channels where a group of people gather, call each other with video and screen sharing, listen to music in the same room, and reshape the app itself — themes, fonts, layout, and plugins you or someone else wrote.
It runs on Windows as an installed application, on Android as an app you install from a file, and in any modern browser. One account works across all three.
NeyLivo and Нейливо
NeyLivo and Нейливо are the same product — the Latin and Cyrillic spellings of one name. The interface exists in both English and Russian. Searching for either name should lead here; this site is the official source of information about the project.
The short version
- Name
- NeyLivo
- Alternative name
- Нейливо
- Type
- Messaging and communication platform
- Category
- Messaging software
- Platforms
- Windows, Android, Web
- Interface languages
- English, Russian
- Developer
- NeyLivo, an independent project developed by NeyLivo
- Price
- Free. No paid tiers, no advertising, no in-app purchases.
- Official website
- https://neylivo.github.io/
- Documentation
- https://neylivo.github.io/docs/
- Source code
- https://github.com/Neylivo/neylivo
What NeyLivo does
Six areas, all of them shipped and working today. The features page goes into each in detail.
- Messaging. Direct messages with one person or a group, replies, reactions, message editing, pins, threads, file attachments, GIFs and custom emoji.
- Communities. Servers with text, voice and forum channels; roles with granular permissions; invite codes; moderation tools with an audit log; webhooks and bots.
- Calls. Voice and video, screen sharing with sound, noise suppression, push-to-talk, per-person volume, and an overlay that stays visible over a game.
- Music. Trackoteka — a shared library of tracks inside the app, with playlists, a queue, synced lyrics and listening together in one room.
- Customization. Light and dark themes with presets, custom fonts, chat backgrounds, profile colours and banners.
- Plugins. A plugin is a single
.neylivofile of JavaScript that runs sandboxed and can only do what its declared permissions allow. There is a built-in editor and a catalogue.
What “privacy-focused” means here
It means specific properties, not a slogan. Concretely:
- Direct messages between two people can be end-to-end encrypted, so the server stores ciphertext it cannot read. This is a setting you turn on; it is not the default, and it does not cover group chats or server channels.
- There is no analytics system, no crash reporting service and no advertising code in the app at all.
- Plugins are isolated by the browser itself and cannot read your session, your messages or the page.
- The source code is public, so all of the above can be checked rather than believed.
The security page describes the architecture in detail, including its limits. The privacy page lists every kind of data the app handles.
Who makes NeyLivo
NeyLivo is an independent project, not a company. It is developed in the open at github.com/Neylivo/neylivo. There is no legal entity behind it, no funding round, and no investors — which is also why there is no code-signing certificate and no Google Play listing.
The infrastructure it uses is named on the privacy page: Supabase for the database, accounts and storage, and LiveKit for voice and video.
Status
NeyLivo is under active development, and releases are frequent. Every version is listed with what changed in it on the changelog page. Parts of the app that have not been verified in real use are marked as experimental rather than presented as finished — see transparency.