Anyone. Anywhere. For anything.
Brane is the free chat app for finding your people. Type what you want to talk about and meet the people, Crowds and events near you who are into it too.
Free. iPhone, Android and browser. 18 and over.
✓ Free to use
✓ iPhone, Android and desktop
✓ No ads
✓ No friend requests, no swiping
✓ No phone number needed
Why Brane
One app for every reason to talk to someone you have not met yet.
No phone number, no friend requests and no swiping. Message anyone on Brane, and anyone can reach you from your profile link, straight from their browser.
The people and Crowds near you on a live map, any city in the world with Brane Teleport, and the whole app in your browser at brane.chat.
Any interest you can type, from Formula 1 to sourdough. Make friends, find a run club, plan a watch party, or find someone nearby who knows cars when yours breaks down.
How it works
01
Save up to five interests. That is the whole setup.
02
Brane lists the people and Crowds nearest you who picked it too.
03
Send a wave, or just say hello.
Built for
Meet people nearby who are into the same things, without friend requests or swiping.
Start a Crowd and share its link, or let people nearby discover it on the map and in search.
Find what is on within 100km, or list your own with a chat that starts before the doors open.
Look around a city before you land, then meet the locals who share your interests.
Turn regulars into a community that comes back for the people as well as the food.
A community for your customers on your website, in your app and behind one link.
A free live chat on your website, answered by a real person from your phone.
Interest first
Other apps ask you to find someone by name. Brane asks what you want to chat about, then finds them for you.
Search near you, or search the world. From 2 km out to 50 km, or switch to Global.
Narrow it by age. From 18 up to 65 and over.
See what is busy tonight. Trending interests sit above your results.
The bit nobody else can say
You save up to five. The other four stay private. Be into four things you would rather not lead with, and still be found for the one you would.
Explore
Explore puts people and Crowds on a single map. Tap an avatar to open a profile, tap a Crowd to see what it is about. Locations are approximate by design, and sharing yours is entirely optional.
Crowds
A Crowd has a name, a place and topics, so the right people find it without an invite link.
People nearby who care about your topics discover the Crowd on their own, on the map and in search.
One Join Code turns an open community into an invitation-only one, and back again.
Every Crowd gets its own link, and any public Crowd can go on a website, so people join right from the page.
brane.im/c/your-crowd-name
See how Crowds workEvents
A live countdown, your own ticket link, and a chat that keeps going after the event ends.
Events Near You lists what is on within 100km, with a badge for Now, Today or Tomorrow.
Add to Calendar is one tap, with the real start and end times.
Say hello first. Every event has its own chat, so you arrive already knowing someone.
For creators
Put your Brane link in every social bio and on your Linktree. Fans tap it and message you straight from their browser, with no app to install, no phone number and no email address on show. Every conversation lands in one inbox.
brane.im/u/your-username
Messaging
Quote any message. Thumbs up or down when it needs no reply.
Crop, trim and caption in the app before you send.
One tap says you are interested. No match to wait for.
brane.chat
Brane.chat is the whole app, with nothing to install. Same account and conversations as your phone, laid out for a wide screen and reachable from anywhere.
Take Brane with you
Community building, support chat, or one place for all your DMs. It is all free.
data-crowd
One line of script puts your group chat on any page, so visitors join the conversation without leaving.
Embed a Crowddata-user
A live chat with a real person, answered from your phone, with every question in one inbox.
Free support chatbrane.im/u
Your profile link opens a chat with you in any browser, from any social platform.
The creator guideBrane is a free chat app for meeting people near you who share your interests. Anyone, anywhere, for anything: search any interest and Brane shows you the people, Crowds (group chats) and events nearby, on iPhone, Android and the web at brane.chat.
Yes. There are no limits on who you can message or how often, and no ads. Even putting a chat on your own website is free.
No. There are no friend requests and no matches to wait for. Open a profile and say hello.
No. There is no swiping and no dating profile. Brane is built around shared interests.
Yes. The whole app runs in your browser at brane.chat, with the same account as your phone.
No. Brane never asks for one. You sign up with an email address and a six digit code.
Yes. One line of script adds a Crowd or a one to one chat to any page, free.
Search it on Brane, cars, cycling, Japanese, anything. People who listed that interest come up nearest first, and you can message them straight away, from your phone or your browser.
One account. Open it in a browser, or install the app.
