Interactive demo
Play the blackout
A tiny browser game that shows what happens to an ordinary messenger when the cell tower dies or jams — and how Knit keeps going by hopping your message phone to phone across the crowd, holding it when nobody is in range.
Level 1 of 6
A normal Tuesday
The way messaging usually works
Priya is across the park. Send her a message the way you always do, and watch where it actually goes.
Move with the arrow keys, WASD, or by dragging on the map. Tap any phone to see what it is carrying.
Send Priya a message over the internet.
hops 0holding 0Six short levels, about five minutes. Or skip straight to free play and break the mesh yourself.
The real thing lives on your phone
This is a simplified picture — the map is abstract and one hop here stands for the few tens of metres a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi hop really covers. The behaviour is the honest part: Knit relays messages phone to phone, holds them when nobody is in range, and needs no tower, server or account to do it. Direct and group chats are end-to-end encrypted, so the phones relaying for you cannot read them. Requires Android 10+.
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