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title: "Press room - mssgs"
description: "Press releases, background information and media assets for mssgs, the independent group chat application from the Netherlands."
canonical: https://mss.gs/en/press
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# Press room

Press releases, background information and media assets for mssgs, the independent group chat application from the Netherlands.

### mssgs introduces parental controls that exclude message content by design

mssgs has released a Parent Center. Parents can see who their child communicates with, how long they are connected and how far their location sharing reaches, but never the contents of a message. The child requests the link, and it shares nothing until a parent accepts.

### mssgs adds watch parties, and clips that export for TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube

mssgs has added watch parties, where a channel watches a video together and every participant can play, pause and scrub by default. The last minutes can be saved as a clip, edited, and exported for TikTok, Snapchat or YouTube.

### mssgs 2.1 brings nine built-in games, an Apple Watch app and CarPlay to iPhone

mssgs 2.1 for iOS adds nine games playable directly in a conversation, an Apple Watch app for reading and replying, CarPlay support with Siri, a redesigned iPad layout and a light appearance.

### mssgs opens its chat to AI assistants through a local MCP server

mssgs has added a local Model Context Protocol server to its desktop application, allowing AI assistants to read and act in a member’s conversations. The server runs on the member’s own computer, reaches only the channels they expose, and enables each capability separately.

Product

mssgs, group chat with channels, DMs, calls, games and bots

Built by

RUAL (Deverence Group B.V.), Brummen, the Netherlands

Founded

RUAL has been building software since 2009; mssgs is its newest product

Platforms

iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and web

Data

Hosted entirely in the EU, no advertising, nothing sold on

Funding

Entirely self-funded, no venture capital

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mssgs is a group chat app for friends, communities and teams: channels, direct messages, voice and video calls, built-in games, bots and AI integrations over MCP. It is free to use and available on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and the web.

mssgs is built by RUAL (Deverence Group B.V.) in Brummen, a Dutch software company that has been making business software and no-code platforms since 2009. All data is hosted in the EU, there are no ads, and nothing is sold on. mssgs is entirely self-funded.

## René van Sweeden

Founder, mssgs (RUAL) Brummen, the Netherlands

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