Walkie-talkie meets
AirDrop meets Messages. No sign-up. No middleman.
Just your iCloud.
Download for MaciOS / iPadOS Soon
What the page shows as you scroll: a crowd of faces floats up and Dominik's face says hello. Three of the crowd come and settle beside it, the Mac's own menu bar items appear either side, and the row becomes what Hoy is: your people, on top of everything you do. One of them drops a note, and it shows for a moment under their face: HOY30OFF, a discount code for Hoy Pro, which a click copies. That face is held and a voice note writes itself down as it is said. Then a picture is carried under the faces, a card of dots opens and names whose face it is under, and the picture lands in that person's channel under a quiet line with the time. A note is typed under it and dropped with Return, and gets a fire back. A screen recording follows and plays, its time counting, and a to-do with a reminder on it, which ticks itself off. Then Finder: with Hoy Pro every channel is a folder there, with its face on it. One is opened, and inside are the picture and the screen recording dropped in that channel, next to a couple of other files. Last, one line: a link is all it takes. Hold to talk. Drop a file on a face. Show your screen. Hand over a to-do. Work with channel files in Finder.
Hoy is free. Host up to 3 channels.
Join as many as you like. Hoy Pro. Host and join unlimited
channels. Channels as Finder folders.
Ambient theme. All future Pro features.
Pay once, no renewals.
One purchase covers every device on your iCloud account
Soon on iPhone and iPad.
Your channels, on the go.
iOS / iPadOS Soon
TestFlight available Nov 16, 2026
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How does it work?
Hoy is built completely around Apple's CloudKit, the same way Apple syncs and shares your Photos and Notes. Create a channel and it lives in your iCloud, so you're the host. Share its invite link with one person and you have a 1-on-1 channel. Share the same link with more people and it becomes a group. Let anyone with the link join, or invite only specific people by their Apple Account email or phone number for extra privacy. You can join as many channels as you like and host three for free. Hoy Pro makes hosting unlimited.
Will it fill up my iCloud?
Only if you want it to. Otherwise channels clear up after themselves: drops are removed on their own, based on the host's preference of 1 day, 3 days, 1 week (the default) or 1 month. Anything you want to hold on to, mark it Keep and it stays. So there's no need to manage storage manually, and a channel stays about what's going on now. Switch to Forever and everything you ever drop stays.
Does it work with Slack, WhatsApp, Android or Windows?
No, and it never will. Hoy is Apple-only by design, built with privacy in mind: no third party between you and your people, only the ecosystem you already trust. It needs an Apple device with an iCloud account on both ends. If you and your people aren't in the Apple ecosystem, Hoy isn't your tool.
How private is it?
There's no Hoy server, on purpose: drops travel from your device to theirs through iCloud and nothing else. I can't read them, and I couldn't hand them over if someone asked. The app has no analytics and collects no data. On the Mac it checks for updates with Sparkle, the standard almost every Mac app uses, and a Pro key is checked with Polar.
What about iPhone and iPad?
Hoy is designed around your Mac's menu bar. That's where the magic happens, and where Hoy is really one of a kind. When you're away from your Mac, the iPhone and iPad apps step in: all of Hoy minus the menu bar, for when you're on the move. Hoy for iPhone and iPad is coming Nov 16, 2026 (TestFlight).
What's next?
It's early, and that's the fun part. I use it every day with my people and I know the concept is strong, but it's young and it will evolve a lot. I'm still learning what people reach for most, so tell me: how you use it, what's missing, what feels off. Ideas, bugs, anything: hello@gethoy.app