Green bubbles don't get FaceTime.

If you carry an Android phone, you know the moment. Someone says "I'll FaceTime you" — and then remembers. The call becomes a text. Or a link to some third app nobody wanted. Or it just doesn't happen.

FaceTime has existed since 2010. It has never once shipped on Android. Not because it's technically hard — video calling between any two phones is a solved problem — but because it's worth more to Apple as a reason to buy an iPhone than as a way for people to see each other.

The alternatives ask you to settle. Third-party apps that treat video as a side feature. Quality that falls apart the moment a connection wobbles. Apps that read your entire contact list into their servers as the price of admission — your friends' phone numbers, uploaded and kept, whether those friends agreed or not.

Sovereign Video started with a simple refusal to accept that trade. One person, no software background, building with modern AI tools — because the technology to do this right finally exists, and waiting for a trillion-dollar company to care stopped feeling like a plan.

What "doing it right" means to us

The call comes first. Native apps on both platforms, engineered around call quality — not a chat app with video bolted on.

Your contacts are not the price. Sovereign Video never stores or transmits the phone numbers in your contact list. Each number is transformed into a one-way cryptographic hash on your device, and only that hash ever leaves it. You can watch it happen live on our homepage.

No sides. The name is the mission: your calls belong to you, not to a platform. iPhone and Android, one app, no wall in the middle.

Where we are now

Sovereign Video is in device testing ahead of launch on the App Store and Google Play. We publish our progress openly on the updates page, and when it's ready, the people on our launch list hear first.