🤫 Hush Line

Anonymous reporting for journalists, lawyers, employers, and more.

Hush Line is a platform that provides individuals and organizations with open-source, end-to-end encrypted, anonymous tip lines.

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For Tip Line Owners

✍️Prepare Your Account

Create your account, add a clear and helpful bio, and request verification if needed.

Register a Tip Line
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🔍Make Yourself Discoverable

Opt into the public user directory so that app visitors can easily find your account. You can do this from Settings > Profile > Public User Directory.

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🤝Share Your Address Widely

Add a link to your tip line on your website, in your email signature, and in social media posts.

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For Whistleblowers

📖Start With The Directory

First, if you're in immediate physical danger, call your local emergency services. If you're a concerned employee or citizen and are not in immediate danger, you can use the Hush Line User Directory to find journalists, lawyers, or other organizations who can help.

User Directory
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📤Submit Your Message

Deposit relevant information and optionally leave a contact method.

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Wait For A Response

Check back to your unique reply link for status updates on your tip.

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One of the top reasons people fail to report their concerns is fear of retaliation. Whether you're a journalist, school administrator, or an employer, your communities want to help but aren't always able to take on the associated risks.

Hush Line is a safe way for anyone to share information without jumping through hoops or compromising their identity.

Who is Hush Line for?

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Journalists & Newsrooms

The easiest way to receive anonymous tips from the public.

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Educators & School Administrators

A safe and simple tool for private student reporting.

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Employers & Board Rooms

Get ahead of any behavior that could lead to compliance violations.

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Organizers & Activists

Private reporting for healthy change-making communities.

Why Hush Line?

⭐️Authenticity guaranteed

We offer verified accounts for organizations and individuals so whistleblowers know their message is going to the right place.

Request Verification
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Triage and respond to tips

Tip line owners can easily accept, decline, and archive messages and automatically let the submitter know relevant next steps.

Triage Messages

🔐Time-tested security you can trust

Your messages are end-to-end encrypted with time-tested technology that's been trusted globally for decades.

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🧑‍💻Verifiable source code

If your security tool isn't open-source there's no way to verify what the code actually does. Our software is open-source, so you can verify or contribute to the code, too!

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🔓In-app message decryption

Bring the power of PGP to your web browser. Decrypt messages directly in the app with the Mailvelope browser extension for Firefox and Chrome!

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✉️Optimized for Proton Mail

Are you a Proton Mail user? Easily import your public PGP key into Hush Line, and when you forward messages to your Proton account, they'll automatically decrypt in your inbox!

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • SecureDrop is a robust whistleblowing platform whose architecture is necessitated by very specific use cases: A.) To safely manage files sent by anonymous people so that a device or network isn't accidentally compromised, and B.) To provide a censorship-resistant and anonymous method of sending those files. When someone submits a message, an account is created for them, allowing two-way communication. To use SecureDrop:

    The tip line owner must:

    1. Do A LOT. SecureDrop is an "on-prem" solution, requiring you to store multiple servers locally, all focused on isolated tasks, using a dedicated network. Think of SecureDrop as a fixed workflow for receiving and handling potentially malicious files. You must do all of the things correctly to assume safe operation. It requires a lot of time, which means a lot of money. The installation and setup of the system, in most cases, needs to be conducted by a member of the SD team, with service contracts helping to ensure proper maintenance of the infrastructure.

    The message submitter must:

    1. Learn how to use SecureDrop.
    2. Download Tor Browser.
    3. Find the correct Onion address for their recipient.
    4. Submit a message.
    5. Save their account credentials.
    6. Check back for progress.

    Hush Line is not a replacement for SecureDrop. Instead, it's for organizations who might not have the staff required to manage such a system or need nation-state levels of defense for all of their anonymous tips. We simplify our threat model by being a text-only service, meaning there is no possibility of receiving files that could harm your computer or network.

    We're a managed service, so you don't have to worry about maintaining physical infrastructure or learning new workflows. In fact, to use Hush Line, you don't even have to log back into the service after setting it up. We can deliver messages directly to your email inbox, so you can set it, forget it, and never miss a beat. Users can add their own public PGP key, giving them end-to-end encryption and ensuring messages cannot be read by anyone but them.

    Hush Line is also available on a clearnet address, or through our Onion service. Using the browser already on your computer or phone, you can easily submit a message without ever downloading a new app. Users who need higher levels of anonymity may optionally use our Onion service, requiring them to download Tor Browser. This flexibility allows for our service to be used for benign use cases or elevated threat levels.

🏷️Pricing

If you need more than what our free tier provides, we have options to meet your requirements! This information is subject to change at any time.

Free/Core

This product is for the community, and our core services will always be free.

Monthly Messages Unlimited
Forwarding Addresses 1
Verified Accounts  ℹ️
Verified URLs
End-to-End Encryption
Proton Mail Key Lookup
Tor Onion Service
Easy Email Forwarding
OCR Vision Assistant
Mailvelope Integration ℹ️
Monthly ❤️ FREE
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Super User

For small to medium businesses that need features for teams.

All Core Features
Aliases 100
Monthly Messages Unlimited
Auto-Deleting Messages Coming soon
More Forwarding Addresses Coming soon
Custom Message Subjects Coming soon
Base Subscription $0/mo
Third-Party Donation  ℹ️ $0/mo
Admin Fee  ℹ️ $0/mo
Support Fee  ℹ️ $0/mo
Monthly $0/mo
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Single Tenant

For businesses that need a dedicated managed service just for their employees.

  • All Features
  • No Feature Limits
  • File Uploads Coming soon
Base Price  ℹ️ $0/mo
License Cost $0/mo
Third-Party Donation  ℹ️ $0/mo
Admin Fee  ℹ️ $0/mo
Support Fee  ℹ️ $0/mo
Monthly $0/mo
Annually $0/yr
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Supported By

Data Empowerment Fund

2024

Open Tech Fund

2023, 2024

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Thank you for stopping by! Hush Line is free and open-source product by Science & Design, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit in the US. Get it touch using one of the channels below!