Morse vs Confer: what each one encrypts, which models you get, and what it costs

The Morse teamPublished November 4, 2026Facts checked November 4, 20268 min read

In Morse vs Confer, both give you end-to-end encrypted chats with open-weight models inside hardware enclaves that your own device checks before sending, and they split on what comes around that. As of November 4, 2026, Confer encrypts every chat on every plan, free included, runs open-source models it doesn't name, and charges $34.99 a month for Membership (Confer). Morse keeps your history only in your browser, adds GPT, Claude, and Gemini without the provider knowing it's you, plus image generation and character chats, and starts E2EE chats on Pro at $19 a month. Choose Confer if you want E2EE without paying and an app that syncs across your Apple devices; choose Morse if you want the frontier models, images, and characters too, for $16 a month less.

We read Confer's privacy policy (updated October 2026), its terms (updated November 2025), all nine posts on its blog, its App Store listing, and its GitHub organization on November 4, 2026. Confer's web app also ships a product reference that its assistant reads when you ask about Confer itself, and the plans, limits, and platforms below come from it. Confer deserves credit for how much it explains. Moxie Marlinspike, who founded Signal, signs its technical posts, and each one shows how a feature works, down to the keys and the handshake.

Morse vs Confer at a glance

As of November 4, 2026. Every Confer cell links to Confer's own page.

Can Confer read your chats?

No, by design, and Morse can't read an E2EE chat either. Confer's privacy policy says "Confer cannot decrypt or otherwise access the content of your messages" (Confer), and its app checks the enclave before sending, a process our Maple vs Confer comparison walks through step by step.

The difference is scope. On Confer, every chat takes that path. On Morse, you choose it per chat: E2EE seals a message on your device for a verified enclave, and Anonymous and Private send your text to a model provider or host that can read it, without your account, email, or IP address. Pick E2EE for anything no one should read.

Which models does Confer use?

Open-source models it doesn't name. As of November 4, 2026, Confer's in-app reference says it's "powered by different open source models for different tasks," with a 250,000-token context window and a knowledge cutoff of July 2025 (Confer). Marlinspike has written that some users "have missed the frontier capabilities from proprietary models" (Confer), and Maple vs Confer covers his plan to bring Confer's technology to Meta AI.

Morse has over 30 models, open and closed, from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Z.ai, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Qwen, Black Forest Labs, ByteDance, Ideogram, and others. The Free plan includes GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM 5.3 Flash. Pro adds unlimited use of models such as Claude Sonnet 5.5, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and Grok 4.7, and 250 credits a month for frontier models.

Where does Confer keep your chat history?

On its servers, encrypted, so it follows you to any device where your passkey works (Confer). Memory works the same way: your client extracts and searches memories, and the server keeps "opaque blobs" (Confer).

If you lose the key, you lose the history. Confer derives the key from your passkey, and where your authenticator can't do that, it gives you a 64-character recovery code instead. Confer's reference says it "can't recover a lost code: if it's lost, the data is gone" (Confer). Windows Hello and Bitwarden don't support the passkey feature Confer needs yet, by the same reference.

Morse's servers don't keep your messages. Your history sits in your browser, encrypted, and locks when you sign out.

Can Confer make images or run characters?

No. Confer's reference says it "cannot generate images" (Confer), and we found no roleplay or companion feature on any of its pages. Confer has put its effort into working with your files instead. Its confidential workers, added September 5, 2026, are small Linux machines inside enclaves where the model can fill out a PDF, build a spreadsheet, or transform an image you attach (Confer).

Morse has Studio for image generation, with 3 images a day on Free and unfiltered image models on Pro, and Characters for roleplay and companion chats, with unlimited character messages on Free.

Does Confer refuse more than Morse?

Confer's pages don't say how its models handle sensitive requests, and they describe no less-filtered model. Its terms let anyone 13 or older use it, with a parent's or guardian's permission under 18 (Confer), and its App Store listing is rated 13+ (App Store). Morse is for adults only. On paid plans, picking an unfiltered model gets answers other apps refuse: dark fiction, straight medical and legal answers, and help testing your own security.

How much does Confer cost compared with Morse?

Confer Membership is $34.99 a month, and Morse Pro is $19. As of November 4, 2026, Confer's free Guest plan gives you 20 messages a day, up to 5 saved chats, memory, and "Full privacy features," and Membership adds unlimited messages and chats, file attachments, and folder files, with a 2-day free trial (Confer). Confer's App Store listing shows the same $34.99 as an in-app purchase without a period (App Store); its own reference says it's monthly. Payments go through Stripe (Confer).

Morse Free is 15 messages a day with no card. Pro is $19 a month, or $17 billed yearly, with E2EE chats, unfiltered models, memory across chats, deep research in Anonymous mode, and character chats on any included model. Max is $49 a month with higher rate limits and 5,500 credits.

Where is Confer better?

In five places, from its own pages:

• E2EE without paying. Every Confer chat is end-to-end encrypted, Guest plan included (Confer).
• Keys from a passkey, and history that syncs. Face ID or Touch ID unlocks your chats on a new device (Confer).
• Builds anyone can reproduce. Its inference image, proxy, and worker image are public (GitHub), and each release is signed into an append-only log, "which means we can't quietly publish a different build for different users" (Confer).
• Your own files and accounts, encrypted. Members can connect Gmail, Drive, and Calendar, with the tokens kept in your encrypted settings and the calls made from your device (Confer), and add PDFs, spreadsheets, and documents to folders that every chat in the folder can search, with the index built inside the enclave (Confer).
• Native Apple apps and a ChatGPT import. Its iPhone app runs on iOS 26 (App Store), and you can bring in a ChatGPT export (Confer).

How Morse covers what Confer leaves to other apps

Confer protects one kind of chat: a message to an open-weight model inside an enclave. A Confer user who wants Claude's read on a draft, a picture for a birthday card, or a long-running character story has to open another app, under another account, for each. Morse keeps those in the same account as its encrypted chats, and you pick who can read each one.

• Anonymous, for the GPT, Claude, or Gemini answer Confer can't give. Before the request leaves, Morse's proxy swaps your account, email, and IP address for Morse's own account. The lab reads the question without knowing it's you and may keep it for a limited time to check for abuse, under its own policy, so write it without your name.
• E2EE, for the conversations you'd have had on Confer. Your browser verifies the enclave against the versions pinned in Morse's app, then encrypts the message so only that enclave can open it, and our servers carry ciphertext they can't read. Third-party providers run the enclaves, and the guarantee depends on the enclave hardware and attestation working as designed. E2EE runs open-weight models without web search or image generation, on Pro.
• Private, the default, for quick questions to DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, or Grok. Morse has zero data retention agreements with its inference, search, and other providers, and where a provider confirms zero retention on each reply, Morse refuses any reply that arrives without it.

None of it waits on our servers. Chats, Studio images, and characters stay in your browser, encrypted, and opening them takes a key from your device plus one our server hands you at sign-in. Because we don't store chats, we usually have very little to give authorities, and a cleared browser can't be restored, so copy out what you want to keep. We don't train AI on your content, sell your data, or show ads. How end-to-end encrypted AI chat works shows each browser check, and how to verify an AI enclave's attestation explains what each one proves.

Choose Confer or Morse

• Choose Confer if you want every chat end-to-end encrypted without paying, history that follows you to your iPhone and Mac and unlocks with a passkey, a public transparency log and reproducible builds, or an assistant that can search your Gmail, Drive, and document folders inside an enclave.
• Choose Morse if you want GPT, Claude, and Gemini without the provider knowing it's you, E2EE chats your browser checks, image generation and characters, unfiltered models on paid plans, and history kept only in your browser, from $19 a month instead of $34.99.

For how Confer compares with another enclave app, see Maple vs Confer, and for Morse against Maple, see Morse vs Maple AI. Send a message from the Morse home page without an account, or start free with no card needed.

Morse publishes this comparison. We've tried to keep it fair; if something's wrong or out of date, email hello@trymorse.ai.

Confer is a trademark of Confer Enterprises, Inc. Morse is not affiliated with or endorsed by Confer Enterprises, Inc.