It's what's next.
The real world, unlocked. Walk into a bar or restaurant and instantly join the live chat with everyone who's actually there. Real names. Real places. No swipes, no bots — just the room you're standing in.
The internet sold you strangers. Speakeazy gives you the room.
Every venue in Speakeazy is a live, location-gated chatroom. Walk in and you're in it — the full thread, tonight's photos, and a roster of everyone else who's here right now. It's the group text for the place you're standing in: the tip about the best table, the person two seats down, the "wait, you're here too?" moment — turned into a thing that just exists.
We built Speakeazy because the internet forgot how to be a place. This fixes that.
Show up, get in
Cross the 100-metre fence — or walk past the Speakeazy beacon at the door — and the room opens. No matching, no invites, no gatekeeping. Presence is the invitation.
Real names, real faces
Sign in with Apple, Google, or a magic link. Your name is on every message you send. Verify your phone for the Verified mark. The room stays real because everyone in it is.
24-hour rooms, a wall that remembers
Every message expires 24 hours after it's posted, so tonight belongs to tonight. Pin one of your photos to the venue wall and it outlives the night.
Walk in. You're in.
Open the app, see the room around you
A live feed of every venue near you, sorted by distance. Real bars and restaurants — each card shows who's there right now, the badges in the room, and tonight's stories, before you've crossed the street.
Cross the fence, unlock the chat
100 metres is the door. Step inside and you're in the room — full message thread, photo strip from tonight, roster of everyone else who's here. Your lock screen keeps the headcount live while your phone's in your pocket.
Build your reputation. Earn your badges.
Show up. Hang out. Get rated Real Deal by the people who shared the room with you. Climb from Newcomer to Influencer, collect diamonds on the way up, and wear the badges that say exactly who you are.
The five people you actually go out with.
You have two hundred friends and five you'd text at 9pm on a Friday. My Circle is for those five. Pick them, and you get a push the moment any of them checks in anywhere — home on the couch or three bars deep. They get a ring of their own behind the glowing button in the middle of the tab bar, with a green dot on anyone who's out right now.
Fill all five and the app pays you +150 Real Deal Points for it. Not a group chat. Not a list. Five people, and you always know when one of them just walked in somewhere.
Five, on purpose
Five slots and no more. A circle you could fit around one table — the point is that everyone in it is someone you'd actually walk over for.
Always on for your circle
Other friends only reach you with an “is out” alert while you're out too, so a quiet night in stays quiet. Your five are the exception — a circle check-in finds you anywhere. One toggle in Settings quiets it.
Yours, not theirs
Your circle is your list. Being in someone else's ring doesn't put them in yours, and nobody sees who you picked. Swap anyone out any time.
Land together. Everyone earns.
Real Deal Points reward showing up. The Circle Bonus rewards showing up together — as big as any single award in the app, and the only one you can't earn alone.
- 1You check inWalk into any venue on Speakeazy. Same fence, same room as always.
- 2Two of your circle are already thereIt doesn't have to be planned. Three of you under one roof on the same night is enough.
- 3Everyone there earns it+100 Real Deal Points to you and to every circle member in the room — not just you. Once per venue per night, up to three venues a night.
Everything a night out actually needs.
None of this is a roadmap. Every feature here is switched on in the app today.
Point your phone at a friend.
Lost someone in a packed bar? Start a Find session and both phones show the distance in feet — and an arrow the moment they can see each other. It ends itself after ten minutes. Needs iPhone 11 or newer.
The room, without opening the app.
Check in and a Live Activity sits on your lock screen with the headcount, updated by push while your phone is in your pocket. Check out from there with one tap.
Who's here, on your wrist.
The Speakeazy watch app shows your current room, how long you've been there, and who's out. Arrival alerts reach the wrist with no phone in hand.
Tonight, in 24-hour clips.
Every photo and video posted to a room chains into that venue's story for 24 hours, and into yours. Tap a venue's ring on Discover to watch its night; tap a profile to watch theirs.
The one thing that doesn't reset.
Chat expires. A pin doesn't. Pin one of your own photos to a venue's wall and it stays with the room — a bar accumulates a face instead of looking like nobody's ever been.
GPS can't see indoors. This can.
Venues can install a Speakeazy beacon. Walk past it and your phone vouches for you — instant check-in in the basement bar where GPS gives up, and proof you were at the door, not down the street.
Eight photos. Swipe through.
Your profile is a pager, not a thumbnail. Up to eight photos, plus your badges, your tier, and your Real Deal total, for the room to see.
Scan a code. Match your contacts.
Your QR code is one tap from the Friends tab. Or match your contacts — with your phone verified — to find who's already here.
Talk like it's a real room.
Group chats, reply pills, reactions, @mentions, and a 60-second cooldown that keeps the flooders out. Venue rooms, group threads and private messages all live in one Chats tab.
Real Deal Points. Your currency of showing up.
RDP is Speakeazy's reputation system. Every check-in, every photo, every thumbs-up from someone who shared the room with you pushes you up the ladder. Six tiers, from Newcomer at zero to Influencer at 15,000 — and the higher you climb, the more your rating of someone else is worth.
- Check in at a venuemax 5 a day+5
- Check in at a favoritemax 3 a day+10
- First-ever check-in anywhere (Pioneer)once per venue · max 3 a day+50
- Still hanging out after 30 minutesper visit+10
- Get rated “Real Deal”25 × the rater's tier · once per person per 30 days+13 to +50
- Start a private chatmax 3 a day+15
- Post a photomax 3 a day+3
- Post a videomax 2 a day+5
- Pin a photo to the venue wallonce per venue a day · max 5 a day+10
- Out three nights in one weekonce a week+20
- Circle Bonus — you + 2 of your circle, same venueonce per venue per night · max 3 venues · everyone there earns it+100
- Fill your circle to fiveonce, ever+150
- Verify your phoneonce, ever+25
- Finish your profileonce, ever+25
A rating is 25 points times the rater's weight — so a thumbs-up from an Influencer is worth 4× one from a Newcomer. Anyone who has shared a room with you for 15 minutes can rate you, once every 30 days. The higher you climb, the more the room listens.
Points are your reputation. Diamonds are what you spend.
Real Deal Points only ever go up and can't be spent — they're standing. Diamonds are the second currency: earned by the things that prove you're real, spent in the Marketplace on the badges in The Reserve and Career Row, or gifted to a friend from inside a private message.
Short on diamonds? Buy a pack in-app. Nobody has to — it's just the fast way to the badge you want.
Wear who you are. Right on your profile.
Badges are yours to wear — Foodie, LGBTQ, Techie, Gamer, Home Owner, Single and Looking, CEO, Sugar Daddy. Some you claim, some you earn: Verified for a checked phone, Regular for three nights at one bar in a week, Founding Member for being here first. Every one of them is painted, not a glyph, and sits on your profile for the room to see.
Top Shelf
EarnedRare pours — earned, not bought. Founding Member, Regular, Verified. Proof you showed up, and that the room noticed.
On the House
FreeFree pours — grab as many as you like. Single and Looking, LGBTQ. Say who you are, in one glance.
The Reserve
DiamondsPrivate stash, for those in the know. In a Relationship, Extra, Sugar Daddy, Rich — and a whole Career Row: CEO, Nurse, Chef, Lawyer, Trades Professional.
Three checkpoints keep the room real.
- 1Apple, Google, or magic-link sign-inNo throwaway accounts. Every sign-in ties to a real Apple ID, Google account, or verified email — and your real name goes on every message.
- 2Phone verificationConfirm your number with a one-time code and you get the Verified mark on your profile, +25 Real Deal Points and 200 diamonds. 21+ venues admit only users who are 21 or older.
- 3Ratings, reports, and a fence that pays attentionAnyone who's shared a room with you for 15 minutes can rate you Real Deal — or report you, one long-press away. Higher tiers carry more weight. Check-ins that jump across town faster than a car could are thrown out.
Your messages, locked to your phone.
Private messages on Speakeazy are end-to-end encrypted when both of you are on the current app. The keys are made on your phone and never leave it — not to us, not to a backup, not to anyone. A message is sealed for the exact devices of the person you sent it to, and nothing in between can open it. Including our servers.
Keys live on your device
Generated on your phone, kept in its keychain, never uploaded. There is no master key, no escrow, and no 'forgot my password' for a private thread.
Screenshots get announced
iOS can't stop a screenshot, so we don't pretend to. Screenshot a private conversation and the other person is told. Photos and videos expire after 24 hours; the save button only appears on your own.
The honest trade-off
A new phone means a new key, and older messages stay locked to the phone that received them. Report a conversation and your phone sends those messages to our moderators — you hold the only handle. Add a Face ID lock in Settings if you share your phone.
Check in without taking your phone out.
Speakeazy has a watch app. Walk into somewhere on Speakeazy and your wrist offers you the room — tap once and you're in it. While you're there it shows the venue, how many people are in it, how long you've been there, how many of your friends are around you and what the night has paid you so far. Tap Check out when you leave.
There's a complication for your watch face too, so the count is on your wrist before you raise it. The watch talks to your phone rather than the network, so the phone comes with you — it just stays in your pocket.
One tap in, one tap out
The watch offers the venue you just walked into, and the check-out button is right there when you leave. The same check-in as the phone's — same room, same points.
The room, at a glance
Venue, headcount, how long you've been there, and how many friends are in it — without unlocking anything.
Your phone stays in your pocket
The watch reads what your phone already knows, so nothing new leaves your hands. Keep the phone nearby and the wrist does the rest.
See who's out right now.
A live map of every friend who's checked into a venue tonight — pinned to the room they're actually standing in. Tap a pin, join their chat, walk over. Lost them inside? Start a Find session and follow the arrow.
- Only friends you've mutually added — never strangers, never advertisers.
- Pins clear when they check out or go quiet — a few minutes, not a few hours.
- Ghost mode hides you from the map, the roster and your circle in one switch. You control who sees you, and when.
Every restaurant. One neighborhood. Every night.
Speakeazy launches on Providence's Federal Hill with live chatrooms at restaurants and bars along Atwells Ave. The map is already lit across the East Bay and the South Coast, and the night-one lineup drops closer to launch.
A claimed venue shows "Managed by this venue" on its room, and the hours and blurb become yours instead of Google's. Claim at business.speakeazysocial.com or write to venues@speakeazysocial.com.
Your room is already on the map.
Every night, everyone within a few miles can see how many people are in your room, who they are, and what's happening — before they pick a place. A full bar is its own advertisement. Speakeazy shows it to the whole street, every night, and it costs you nothing.
Your room shows "Managed by this venue." The hours and the blurb become yours instead of Google's. Add a Speakeazy beacon at the door and check-ins work in the basement where GPS gives up — and can't be faked from the parking lot.
Every point in the app is earned by doing something a venue wants.
Real Deal Points are the reason people open Speakeazy. Read the rules from behind the bar and they're a loyalty program you didn't have to build: the app pays people to walk in, to stay, to come back, to bring friends, and to post your room.
Walk in
Every check-in is a body through the door — and the room's live count ticks up for everyone nearby to see.
Stay 30 minutes
Paid by the clock, not the tap. The app rewards the second round, not the drive-by.
Come back
People pick three favorites, and every return to one pays double a normal check-in. Three nights at one venue in a week earns the Regular badge — a regular, made visible.
Bring two friends
Three of a circle under one roof and every one of them is paid. The app rewards groups converging on one place, not singles wandering.
Try somewhere new
A first-ever check-in at a venue is the biggest single award there is. A new bar on the strip gets trial baked in.
Post the room
Photos, videos, and pins to your wall — user-made marketing of your room, on the card everyone sees before they pick a place.
Every venue's live count, gender mix, badges and tonight's stories sit on its card in Discover. Presence is the top signal in how venues rank — the busier the room, the higher it sits for everyone nearby.
Ten dollars. Ten years.
GPS was built for streets, not basements. A phone under a low ceiling, behind brick, three floors down on Atwells — it guesses, and a guess is the difference between someone walking into your room and someone giving up at the door. The beacon is a coin-cell disc you stick by the entrance. Your customer's phone hears it, and the check-in is instant and exact.
Basements, back rooms, patios under an awning. The room opens the moment they're through the door.
No waiting for a satellite lock in a doorway. Walk past, you're in the room.
A beacon is heard from a few metres, not from the parking lot. Your headcount is people actually in the building.
Your dashboard splits check-ins by how they happened — tapped, prompted, or beacon. You'll know within a week.
ten-year battery
That's a dollar a year — less than a penny a night. One extra person through the door pays for the decade.
You don't need one. Every venue on Speakeazy works on the 100-metre fence, beacon or not — this is for rooms where that isn't good enough, and you'll know from your own check-in split whether yours is one of them.
Put a bonus on the door.
Promos: extra Real Deal Points for checking in on the nights you choose — a slow Tuesday, a new menu, a game. It shows on your card before people decide where to go, and the app counts whether it moved the number or just coincided with it.
Everything else tells you about your customers. This tells you about the whole street.
You can count heads by standing at the door. What you can't see — and what Speakeazy knows because it watches every bar on the strip, not just yours — is the six things below. Check-ins have been recorded for every venue since the day we lit up your city, claimed or not: claim in March and you'll see February.
The check-in is one tap at the door; after that the app is the group text people already run under the table — except everyone in it is in your room, under a real name, and the conversation ends at 24 hours.
Real names on every message, a report one long-press away, automated screening on photos and video, and a room that resets every night. It's your floor with the lights on, not a review site.
Already built. Switching on soon.
These are already in the app, switched off. They flip on one at a time as each one proves itself on Federal Hill.
AR venue finder
ComingHold your phone up on Atwells and the bars slide across the camera as you pan — live headcount and the badges in each room, floating over the door.
Trivia in the room
ComingA round of trivia that everyone checked in can play, scored live in the venue chat.
Venue promos
ComingBars can put a bonus on the door — extra Real Deal Points for checking in on the nights they want you there.
ID verification
ComingA government ID against a live selfie, for the people who want the strongest Verified there is. +100 Real Deal Points and 500 diamonds when it lands.
Speakeazy isn't a social network. It's the room you're in.
Built for the way you actually go out.
Answers, straight.
Where does Speakeazy work?+
Do I have to be at the venue to chat?+
How long do messages last?+
Is it 18+?+
How do you keep it real?+
What is My Circle?+
Can anyone read my private messages?+
What are Real Deal Points?+
I own a bar. What does this do for me?+
When can I download it?+
Get in on day one.
Speakeazy launches on the App Store this fall. Join before December 6, 2026 and the Founding Member badge is yours — permanent, non-transferable, and the first thing anyone sees on your profile. After that date, it can't be earned again.