# Confer

> End-to-end encrypted AI assistant from the creator of Signal

Confer is a private AI assistant built by Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal. Chat history, folders, memories and attachments are end-to-end encrypted with keys that stay under your control, and prompts are processed inside a hardware-isolated environment that the operator cannot read. It covers writing help, image understanding, web search with sources, memory, folders with shared files, and connectors to Gmail, Google Drive and Google Calendar, on the web and on iPhone.

- **Category:** AI Assistants
- **Made by:** Confer Enterprises, Inc
- **Website:** https://confer.to
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 6, 2026

## Pricing

Confer has a free plan. Paid plans start at $34.99 (Confer Membership, US App Store; billing period not shown).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free to start with no credit card: up to 5 chats and a daily message limit. Attachments, connectors and folder custom instructions are Member features.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Up to 5 chats at a time and a daily message limit. Attachments, connectors and custom instructions for folders are reserved for Members. |
| Confer Membership | $34.99 in-app purchase on the US App Store; period not shown | Removes the cap on chats and adds attachments, connectors for Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Drive, and custom instructions for folders. |

Read from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/confer-private-ai/id6760171224 on Oct 6, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Confer before buying.

## App Store prices by country

"Confer Membership", as each country's App Store showed it on Oct 9, 2026. These are the app's prices, not the website's.

| Country | Price | In US dollars |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | $34.99 | |
| United Kingdom | £29.99 | about $39.61 (13% more) |
| Germany | 29,99 € | about $33.55 (about the same) |
| Canada | $44.99 | about $31.55 (10% less) |
| Australia | $59.99 | about $41.65 (19% more) |
| India | ₹ 3,499 | about $36.15 (about the same) |
| Brazil | R$ 229,90 | about $45.83 (31% more) |
| Mexico | $799.00 | about $44.36 (27% more) |
| Turkey | ₺1.999,99 | about $40.64 (16% more) |
| Indonesia | Rp 599ribu | about $33.43 (about the same) |
| Philippines | ₱ 2,290.00 | about $36.35 (about the same) |
| South Africa | R699.99 | about $42.04 (20% more) |

## Key features

- **End-to-end encrypted history:** Chat history, folders, memories and attachments are encrypted with keys derived from a passkey, so the server stores only ciphertext. Recovery keys can unlock the data on your other devices.
- **Private inference:** Prompts travel over an encrypted channel into a confidential VM. The client checks the hardware attestation against a public transparency log, and the code for that environment is published.
- **Web search, images and file work:** Answers can draw on web search with sources and on attached photos and files, and Confer can create or edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations and images or run code.
- **Memory you control:** Persistent memory carries context from one conversation to the next. You can review, edit and delete what it remembers, and import conversations from ChatGPT.
- **Folders with files and instructions:** Folders group conversations, carry their own custom instructions and hold PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets and other files that every chat in the folder can reference.
- **Client-side connectors:** Connectors for Gmail, Google Drive and Google Calendar run on your device: access tokens are stored encrypted and the results do not pass through Confer's servers in readable form.

## Good for

- Discussing health, money or work without leaving a readable server-side record
- People who trust Signal's approach and want the same for AI chat
- Gmail, Google Drive and Google Calendar users who want private connectors

## Worth knowing

- The membership is listed at $34.99 as an in-app purchase on the US App Store with no billing period shown, and the website shows no price before sign-in.
- The free plan is capped at 5 chats and a daily message limit; attachments, connectors and folder custom instructions need a membership.
- It is available on the web and iPhone only. The App Store listing says the app is only for iPhone and requires iOS 26 or later.
- Confer runs on an open-weight model that it selects; its site does not list models from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.

## Works with

Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar

**Tags:** Chat assistant, End-to-end encrypted, AI search, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Lumo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lumo): Proton's private AI assistant with zero-access encrypted chats. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/confer-vs-lumo)
- [Venice](https://toolgpa.com/tools/venice): Privacy-focused AI app for chat, images and video across many models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/confer-vs-venice)
- [Maple AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/maple-ai): End-to-end encrypted AI chat that runs open models in enclaves. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/confer-vs-maple-ai)
- [Duck.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/duck-ai): Private, anonymized chat with third-party AI models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/confer-vs-duck-ai)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 6, 2026:

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/confer-private-ai/id6760171224
- https://confer.to/
- https://confer.to/blog/
- https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/
- https://confer.to/blog/2026/04/connectors/
- https://confer.to/blog/2026/03/encrypted-meta/
- https://confer.to/terms/index.html
- https://api.github.com/orgs/conferlabs/repos

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