# Olvid review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> End-to-end encrypted messenger needing no phone number

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Olvid is a messenger that asks for no phone number, email or name and says it never reads the address book. Messages, attachments and calls are end-to-end encrypted. It is free for individuals, with paid options for outbound calls and an enterprise edition with a management console and single sign-on.

- **Category:** Team Communication
- **Made by:** Olvid
- **Website:** https://olvid.io
- **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you want outbound calls, at €4.99 a month for one person.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, Olvid has a free plan, and paid plans start at €4.99 per user / month, incl. taxes (in-app purchase).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free forever: unlimited messages and attachments, group discussions, multiple profiles, Olvid Web and inbound audio and video calls.
- **Free trial:** The pricing table shows a 1-month free trial of outbound calls for free-plan users.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | €0 forever | No limits on messages or attachment size, groups, edit and unsend, ephemeral messages and incoming calls. |
| In-app purchase | €4.99 per user / month, incl. taxes, billed monthly | Individual license bought in the app through the App Store or Google Play, managed there. Outbound audio and video calls need a paid license. |
| Business | €9.90 per user / month, excl. taxes, billed monthly | Bought on the Olvid Store; license activation links are handed to users. Outbound calls are included, with MDM deployment. |
| Enterprise | €9.90 per user / month, excl. taxes, plus a flat €4,990 a year | Billed annually. Adds the Management Console, SSO, user and group management, instant revocation and MDM deployment. |

Read from https://olvid.io/pricing/en on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Olvid before buying.

## Key features

- **No personal data to sign up:** The site says no phone number, email, name or address is required, and the app does not ask for the address book.
- **Encrypted messages and calls:** Messages and attachments are end-to-end encrypted. Incoming calls are free for all users; outbound calls are a paid option.
- **Edit, unsend and ephemeral messages:** Edit a sent message, delete it for the recipient or set automatic deletion by time or single read.
- **Multiple profiles and devices:** Several profiles, including hidden ones, are on the free plan. The pricing page lists syncing all devices as a feature.
- **Management Console:** The Enterprise offer adds SSO via OpenID Connect or SAML 2.0, CSV user import, group management and instant key revocation.
- **Olvid Bots:** Information, command and chat bots automate messages and tools, sold as options on the business tiers.

## Good for

- Individuals who do not want a phone number tied to their chats
- Companies and public bodies that need an encrypted messenger with SSO
- Teams that want secure bots or AI assistants inside chat

## Worth knowing

- Prices are published in euros only; the in-app price includes taxes and the business prices exclude them.
- Outbound audio and video calls need a paid license after the 1-month trial.
- Olvid Web works with an Android-compatible device, and the Linux app is mentioned only on the pricing table, not the download page.
- Bots, Olvid x AI and a turnkey integration are options with no published price; a discount depends on the number of users.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Olvid is an encrypted messenger that needs no phone number or email. Messages and attachments are unlimited on the free plan, but outbound calls need a paid license at €4.99 a month. Prices are in euros only and business prices exclude tax.

- **Value for money: B.** The free plan has no message limits. Calling out needs €4.99 a month for one person, or €9.90 for business, so the useful extras sit around the category middle.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Free forever for messages, attachments and groups. Outbound calls need a paid license after a one-month trial.
- **Features: C.** Encrypted messages, calls, edit and unsend, profiles and a management console. Outbound calls are paid.
- **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record, but there is no phone number or account to set up.
- **Platforms and integrations: A.** Web, Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android, with bots and an enterprise management console.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Olvid's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among team communication apps

- Olvid's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 60 of the 75 other team communication apps we grade, and level with 6.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 51 of 75) and worst on features (C, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at about $5.57 a month for each person, against a middle price of $6.90 for the category: 19 of the 51 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.0 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/team-chat

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Olvid you would be making chat that a whole team counts on staying up. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 60 of the 75 other team communication apps we grade. It costs $66.90 a year. Olvid is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself.

- You could not: Chat that a whole team counts on staying up.
- You could not: Video calls.
- You could not: A chatbot builder hooked into the messaging apps.
- You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- You could not: End-to-end encryption done properly.
- You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, LDAP, Active Directory

**Tags:** Team chat, End-to-end encrypted, Open source, Video calls, Chatbots

## Alternatives

- [Signal](https://toolgpa.com/tools/signal): Nonprofit messenger with end-to-end encrypted chats and calls. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/olvid-vs-signal)
- [Wire](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wire): End-to-end encrypted messaging and calls for organizations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/olvid-vs-wire)
- [Threema Work](https://toolgpa.com/tools/threema-work): Encrypted business messenger from Switzerland. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/olvid-vs-threema-work)
- [SimpleX Chat](https://toolgpa.com/tools/simplex-chat): Private messenger that uses no user identifiers at all. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/olvid-vs-simplex-chat)
- [Element](https://toolgpa.com/tools/element): End-to-end encrypted chat and calls on the Matrix standard. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/element-vs-olvid)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://olvid.io/pricing/en
- https://olvid.io/en/
- https://olvid.io/download/en
- https://olvid.io/technology/en/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/olvid
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