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Beeper

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Velocity3.8

Universal chat app that bridges 14+ messaging services (iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Discord, more) into one inbox.

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Beeper stopped aggregating apps and started merging the people inside them.

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◆Current state
The bridge count keeps climbing, with LINE the most recent addition, but the more consequential work is identity-level. Merge Chats collapses conversations with the same person across multiple networks into a single thread. Around that sits a long run of parity work — group chat creation, delete chat, disappearing messages, message requests — closing the gaps that forced users back into native clients.
◆Where it's heading
Two tracks run in parallel. Parity work is making Beeper safe to use as the only client, and for the major networks it is close to finished. On top of that, the product is starting to add things no native app can do: cross-network chat merging, in-chat AI models, a unified requests folder. The public call for third-party bridges suggests network coverage is increasingly a community responsibility rather than an in-house roadmap item.
◆Prediction
With conversations merged across networks, unified contacts and cross-network search are the natural follow-ons — the organizing primitive shifts from the chat to the person.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Beeper merges one person's chats across networks

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    The point where Beeper's proposition changes shape. Every prior release made more networks reachable from one app; this one makes the network itself disappear from the user's mental model, which is the first capability here that a native client cannot replicate.

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  2. 1mo ago

    LINE bridge arrives, plus rich call notifications and Raycast

    LINE support closes a significant regional gap, and rich call notifications extend coverage from messages into call events. Both are coverage work — valuable, but on the pre-existing aggregation model rather than the merging one that follows.

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  3. 5mo ago

    Message Requests folder and encrypted X Chat support

    A dedicated Requests folder isolates spam from networks like Instagram and X, and end-to-end encrypted X Chat support begins rolling out. Parity work, with the requests folder hinting at the cross-network organization that Merge Chats later delivers.

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  4. 8mo ago

    Group chat creation lands, plus experimental in-chat AI

    Group chat creation lands — a long-standing parity gap — alongside an experimental ability to invoke GPT models and Apple Intelligence inside a conversation. The AI piece is the first hint of capability layered on top of bridging rather than beneath it.

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  5. 9mo ago

    Delete chat and disappearing messages reach network parity

    Delete chat and disappearing message indicators across most supported networks, kept in sync with the native service. Pure parity, and part of the steady removal of reasons to open the original app.

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  6. 9mo ago

    Build a Beeper Bridge

    An open invitation for outside developers to build bridges, framed against the twelve networks already supported. It reframes coverage as an ecosystem problem rather than a roadmap item, which is how the long tail of networks gets reached without in-house effort.

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