Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to SeaNotes
Hidden Ocean Messages
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. SeaNotes launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Traces▲56Hide messages in the real world for friends to find (UK)
2014 · traces.io · its alternatives →
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Chat anonymously with friends & strangers
2015 · antiland.com · its alternatives →
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Stealthy.IM▲105Text friends without Google or Facebook snooping
2018 · stealthy.im · its alternatives →
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Text▲168Push notification messaging with friends (WUT w/o anonymity)
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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shortwave▲106Short-range anonymous messaging (Secret meets Firechat)
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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An anonymous message in a bottle web app
Mar 2026 · oceanmail-miab.web.app · its alternatives →
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- 20SI
2021 · pastenow.me · its alternatives →
- 21DP
2018 · stealthy.im · its alternatives →
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2014 · rafaelvidaurre.tumblr.com · its alternatives →
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Hide messages in iMessage, troll your friends 👹
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News! In the past few weeks I've been working on a side project that allows you to post anonymously a short message and a photo that is tied to your location. Other people can see posts around them in a radius of 1 kilometer. Posts are ephemeral and disappear after one day. That's all. It started as an exercise to try to write a geohash index and to try nodejs and Redis. I'm not sure if/how it could be useful. Maybe it could be used as a quick way of sharing something with someone next to you, or to leave a reminder for someone at a specific location. Or it could be abused…
2015 · its alternatives →
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