Observed arrival · 2026-09-02

Burrow, the Bluetooth-first chat mesh

burrow.chat Observed source

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An encrypted chat app that sends messages peer to peer over Bluetooth LE, without accounts, servers, or an internet connection.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-02 issue.

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Burrow uses Bluetooth LE rather than cloud infrastructure, with the homepage describing peer relays that carry messages toward their recipients. The page identifies the release as version 0.1.1 and provides a roughly 99 MB Apple Silicon macOS disk image alongside a Linux source archive. Its early-stage status is explicit: macOS users must bypass the first-open warning for a build signed with a personal development certificate, while Linux users compile Bluetooth support locally.

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