Safety and child safety standards

Last updated: October 4, 2026

GoFiChat is a chat and games app for people in the same place, like friends on a trip or classmates on a bus. You must be at least 13 to use it. This page explains how the app keeps people safe, what to do if something goes wrong, and our standards against child sexual abuse and exploitation.

How GoFiChat is built

• There are no accounts, profiles or search. Nobody can look you up, follow you or message you out of the blue.
• Chat only happens inside a room, between phones within Bluetooth range (about 30 metres) or on the same Wi-Fi. Nobody far away can reach you through GoFiChat.
• Rooms are private. A new room isn't shown to anyone outside it unless someone in it turns on Show on Nearby, and then only for 10 minutes. Someone who finds a room that way, or types its code, waits outside until someone in the room lets them in.
• The app doesn't use your location, and photos are sent without their location or other hidden details.
• Hide offensive words is on unless you turn it off in Settings.
• GoFiChat has no servers. Messages go straight between phones, encrypted, and nobody outside the room can read them, including us.

If someone makes you uncomfortable

• Leave the room. You can leave at any time.
• Block them: tap their name, or press and hold one of their messages, then tap Block. You won't see anything else they send. If the room runs through your phone, they're removed and can't come back in.
• Report them: tap Report in the same place and pick what's wrong. Your phone writes an email to us with their recent messages, and you choose whether to send it.
• Tell an adult you trust. If you or someone else is in danger, call your local emergency number.

For parents and carers

GoFiChat only connects phones that are close together. Your child can only talk with people in the same place, and nobody joins a room without scanning its QR code or being let in. The app has no ads, no purchases and no tracking. You can limit or block it with Screen Time on iPhone or Google Family Link on Android.

Child safety standards

GoFiChat has zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE), including child sexual abuse material (CSAM). These standards apply to everyone who uses GoFiChat and to everything sent in it: messages, photos, voice messages, names and room names. Nobody may:

• share, ask for, make or point to sexual images or videos of anyone under 18, including drawn, edited or AI-generated ones
• contact a young person to sexually exploit them (grooming), for example by asking for photos, offering gifts or arranging to meet
• threaten to share someone's intimate images unless they do what they're told (sextortion)
• sexualise, endanger or traffic children in any other way

Breaking these standards breaks our Terms of Use.

What we do about reports

• Anyone can report a message or a person from inside the app. We read every report within 24 hours, and reports about child safety come first.
• When a report shows apparent CSAM or a child at risk, we report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) through its CyberTipline, or to the authority responsible in the country where it happened. We keep what we were sent only as long as the law requires.
• We reply to the person who reported it and tell them what to do next, including going to the police.
• GoFiChat has no servers, so we never hold the messages or photos sent in rooms, and we can't delete anything from other people's phones. Blocking someone on the phone the room runs through removes them at once. We use what we learn from reports to improve the app's safety tools.
• We follow the child safety laws of the places where GoFiChat is available, and we work with law enforcement.

Get help

If a child is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number. You can report child sexual exploitation to NCMEC's CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org or 1-800-843-5678 in the US, to the Internet Watch Foundation at report.iwf.org.uk in the UK, or to your country's hotline through INHOPE.

Contact

Questions about child safety, including from law enforcement, go to support@gofichat.com. Put "Child safety" in the subject so it reaches us first.