Mobile app · Internet & communication

CarrierPony

Private PGP messenger. End-to-end encrypted chat and file transfer, no account.

Completely free
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS
Open source

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Geographic availability: No geographic restriction found in our sources; availability is not checked country by country.

Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by F-Droid
License: Apache-2.0 — Open source (permissive)confirmed by F-Droid
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by F-Droid
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by F-Droid
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: No
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOSEstablished by Android: F-Droid, Unspecified source · iOS: Unspecified source · Linux: Unspecified source · macOS: Unspecified source · Windows: Unspecified source
Publisher: NorseHorse
Latest version: 3.3.2 (6 November 2026)
Latest activity: 6 November 2026
Source code: github.com/norsehorse-dev/CarrierPonyAndroid

Overview

CarrierPony is a file transfer mobile app, available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

Features described in its F-Droid listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: end-to-end encryption.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“End-to-end encrypted messaging, groups, channels and file transfer for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux, built on OpenPGP.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“CarrierPony is a private messenger and secure file transfer app built on real OpenPGP encryption.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of CarrierPony is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (Apache-2.0) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
No advertising
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) — 9 November 2026
Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) — 6 November 2026
Last technical check: 5 November 2026
Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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