The Nostr Observer

White Noise is back with rebuilt mobile apps and a practical promise: return after time offline and find the conversation waiting. The release announcement says devices with the same authenticated history now settle on the same group state, even when changes arrive in a different order.

The project puts it plainly: In plain English: the group stays together, and people get the messages waiting for them when they return.

Both apps and their shared core have been rebuilt. The project says the work accounts for several months without a release, and that friends and family have spent the past several weeks testing real group chats. It expects the new foundation to make subsequent releases more frequent.

Replies, reactions, mentions, encrypted media, multiple accounts and group invitations are part of the package. On Android, the additions include voice dictation, Read Aloud and QR cards for profiles and invites.

On iOS, the announcement describes Face ID protection and screenshot blocking. It says Apple receives a generic notification wake, while the phone constructs the visible message locally; sender, group and message details stay off Apple’s notification service.

White Noise uses the Marmot messaging protocol and end-to-end encrypted groups. An account is a keypair the user controls, with no phone number or email address required. The project describes relays as replaceable, including with one a user runs themselves.

Availability is specific: iOS through TestFlight, Android through Zapstore. The team calls this a sneak peek for Nostr and asks testers to send problems through support inside the app.

Max’s accompanying release note conveys the effort behind the quieter product language: This was so damn hard. The next test is the ordinary one: people leaving a group chat, coming back, and being able to keep talking.