What Quad knows about you

Short version: your games and your messages, and nothing that says who you are. No email, no phone number, no real name, no school, no photo of you, no location. Last updated August 2026.

An account is a username and a password

That is all of it. No email, no phone number, no birthday, and no signing in through anybody else's account. Nothing you type is checked against a real identity. Your messages are never public; the only thing other people can see is your username, your picture, and — if you are near the top of it — your name and streak on the leaderboard.

Because there is no email, there is no reset link. Instead you get six words when you sign up. Those words are the only way back into an account whose password has been forgotten, so keep them somewhere safe — if you lose both the password and the words, nobody can get the account back for you, including whoever runs Quad. You can swap the six words for a new set at any time while you are signed in.

What is stored

• Which games you saved and recently played.
• Your username, your chosen picture, and who you are friends with.
• Messages you send, for 30 days, then they are deleted.
• Streak counts, and scrambled versions of your password and your recovery phrase that cannot be turned back into either. Nobody, including whoever runs Quad, can read them — which is also why the six words can be replaced but never shown to you a second time.
• A count of how many people visited each day. Just a number — no visitor id, no record of what anybody looked at.

To stop spam and guessing, your device's network address (its IP) is used for up to two minutes to count how many requests it is making, then thrown away. It is never written down next to your account or anything you did.

Who can see your messages

Your friends, and whoever runs Quad if a message gets reported. Messages are not end to end encrypted, and that is on purpose: a report nobody can read is a report nobody can act on.

Your school can probably see them too. If you are on a school Chromebook, the filter your school installs can read what is on the screen no matter what website you are using or how it is encrypted. That is true of Quad, Instagram, Google Docs and everything else. Nobody can promise you otherwise, so we are not going to.

Who Quad is for

People aged 13 and over. If you are under 13, this is not for you. There is not yet a one-tap delete button (see the end of this page), so an account we find that belongs to someone under 13 is stopped from sending until that is built.

The games and videos are other people's sites

The games run from a handful of other websites, loaded inside Quad, and videos play in YouTube's own player. Those sites see the same thing any website you open sees — that a device asked for a page — and some of the game sites show their own ads. When you search for a video, the words go to YouTube through Quad's own server so your device never talks to YouTube to search; playing one, though, is YouTube's player and YouTube's rules. Quad adds no trackers of its own, on any page.

One more: the little weather in the bar. If it is on — it is by default — your browser asks Open-Meteo, a free weather service that wants no account and sets no cookie, for the forecast for the town chosen in Settings, about once an hour. Never for where your device actually is; Quad never asks the browser for that. Like any request it carries your network address. Turn it off in Settings and it never happens.

What you cannot send

Text and emotes only. No photos, no video, no files. Profile pictures come from a set we made — Quad never takes an upload from anybody. Links can be typed but are never clickable, and they get flagged for review.

Reporting

Every message has a report button, and it is the only way to report something. A report copies that message and the ten either side so it can be understood in context, it is kept for 90 days, and it goes straight to the person who runs Quad. You can also block someone (they cannot message you, and are not told), or mute or restrict them, which quietly sets them aside on your side — no unread badges, and a restricted chat drops to the bottom of your list — without them being told either.

There is no contact email, on purpose. Quad is run anonymously — an address would undo that. It does mean that if you are a parent or a school with a question, there is currently no way to get in touch, which is a real limitation rather than an oversight.

Getting rid of it

Settings → Clear everything on this computer wipes Quad off the machine you are on, including the private nicknames you gave people.

Nothing here is kept forever, whether you ask or not. Messages delete themselves 30 days after the last one in that conversation. An account that goes unused for 400 days is deleted along with everything attached to it. There is not yet a button that deletes an account on the spot; that is a real gap and it is being built.