Welcome to UNIHELD

Set up a profile & save log-in data

No painstaking registration, no submission of personal data. Simply pick a name of your choice, no matter if real name, nickname or alias and get started. Your login data is created automatically and saved on your device only.

Please make sure to save your log-in data, so that you can migrate your account easily to a new device. Read how to export and import your credentials in our FAQ.

UNIHELD Benefits

Welcome to our UNIHELD benefit program for students only. Under “benefits” you can access the latest special offers just for you. All you need to do is quickly signing up. All data is solely used for operating the benefits program and improving our service. Please note, a German university e-mail address is needed for registration. In case your e-mail address is not accepted for registration, please send us an e-mail to help.

StudentID

The UNIHELD Student ID can be used as a digital Student ID, which will identify you as a student in whole Europe.

Invite friends

We don’t want access to your contacts, nor do we want to scan your data. That’s why your contact list is empty the first time you open the app.

Just invite your friends – it’s as simple as this:

  • Generate and give away an invite code (type in your friend’s 10-digit invitation code)
  • Show a QR-Code – your friends can scan
  • Send an SMS – accept via link
  • Send an E-mail with – accept link
  • “Add as friend” – open a nearby or group friend user profile

Friends made in nearby mode or groups can directly be added as contacts.

Chat

After your friend accepted the invitation you can start right away. Your content, no matter if pics, vids or plain text of any size, will be transferred encrypted. Only recipients will be able to read it.

Verify your Contacts

The fingerprint is a control sum of your public encryption key.
For extra security, you can compare this fingerprint with the fingerprint seen in your contact card on your friend’s device and mark it as verified. You will be informed if the verified key changes (iOS).

Expert information: The key id is the SHA256 hash of the public key truncated to 8 bytes (16 digits hex).

Groups

Set up a group and invite your friends to it! Every member has to accept the invitation first before participating the group. Data shared within a group is of course safe and encrypted, too.

  1. Click on “+” Button to create a new group.
  2. Name it and chose an avatar if you like.
  3. Invite your friends.
  4. Done. Now your friends need to accept your invitation.

Nearby

“Nearby” is our spontaneous data sharing feature. You can easily share data with people around you (up to 100 m), without even being connected to them. Messages and attachments are of course protected by our usual standards. On top: data can be send and received gesture-controlled.

Security note

When you activate “Nearby” mode, your client sends location data to our servers. This data is encrypted during transportation and will be decrypted and stored on the server until you deactivate Nearby mode or disconnect. The location data is processed to temporarily connect you with other users close to you with activated Nearby mode.

In “Nearby” mode you can participate in conversations without actually being friend with these users. Your location data will be deleted from our servers as soon as you leave nearby mode.

The transfer of all texts, pics, videos or other attachment is secured with end-to-end encryption.

Please note: When exchanging messages in the “All Nearby”-Group a new user can appear in the group at any time and will be able to receive your messages. Make sure to share confidential content only within a “normal” to be found underneath the Nearby group chat.

Support

Having technical woes with this app? Feel free to write us an e-mail to our support anytime.