For Users

A paper business card is a small act of optimism. You hand someone a rectangle of card and quietly hope that, months later, when they finally need you, the ink still means something. Usually it doesn't. By then you've changed job, number, or city, and your carefully chosen typeface is a fossil in a drawer.

Vauchi starts from a different premise. The valuable part of meeting someone is the meeting — the fact that you chose to be in the same room. The data is just the residue. So Vauchi keeps the human bit exactly as it is — you swap details face to face, on purpose — and quietly fixes the part that always rots. When your number changes, theirs updates. No re-sending, no "hi, new phone!" group text, no fossils.

This section is the owner's manual. It is shorter than you fear.

Start here

New to Vauchi? Two pages get you running:

  • Getting Started — create your identity and make your first exchange (about five minutes)
  • FAQ — the questions everyone asks, answered plainly

What it does

FeatureIn one line
Contact ExchangeSwap cards in person — a deliberate, private handshake
Automatic UpdatesChange your details once; everyone's copy follows
Privacy ControlsDecide, per person, what they're allowed to see
End-to-End EncryptionWhy nobody in the middle can read any of it
Backup & RecoverySurvive a lost phone without surrendering to a cloud
Multi-Device SupportOne identity, every screen you own

How to do things

GuideWhat you'll learn
Exchanging ContactsAdd someone, step by step
Setting VisibilityShow your mobile to friends, not to the conference
Device RecoveryGet back in after losing a device
Multi-Device SetupLink a second device safely

Why this one is different

Most apps want to be the room you live in: a feed to scroll, a follower count to mind, a profile to perform. Vauchi wants to be the handshake, and then get out of the way. There is no feed, no audience, no number going up.

The whole thing rests on one slightly unfashionable idea — that giving someone your real details, in person, because you decided to, is worth more for being scarce, not less. A contact you met is a contact you meant. Everything in the app is built to protect that.

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