NIDEA Premium
For the conversations that matter most.
Everyday chatting stays free, always. Premium is for the times you want to speak freely, keep what you cannot afford to lose, and be sure people know it is really you.
Prices
Start free. Go further when you are ready.
Free is a complete messaging app, not a trial. Premium is there when you want more, and you can cancel any time.
Monthly
₦2,500
a month. Renews until you cancel.
Compare
Free and Premium, side by side.
Everyday
Chats, calls, groups and status
- Free
- Premium
End-to-end encrypted chats
- Free
- Premium
No ads, contacts never read
- Free
- Premium
Room
Storage
- Free
- 500 MB
- Premium
- 5 GB
Largest file
- Free
- 32 MB
- Premium
- 128 MB
People in a group
- Free
- Up to 64
- Premium
- Up to 500
Devices signed in at once
- Free
- 1
- Premium
- 3
Files nobody has opened yet
- Free
- Kept 30 days
- Premium
- Kept
Hush
Receive Hush chats
- Free
- Premium
Start Hush chats
- Free
- 7-day try-out, once
- Premium
Keep and be known
Encrypted chat backup
- Free
- Premium
Verified tick and reserved username
- Free
- Premium
Send later and search your history
- Free
- Premium
What Premium adds
The little things that add up.
A recognised identity
Apply for a verified name. After an identity check, a tick shows beside your username. It is never automatic with payment.
Look-alike names are blocked, so nobody can register a name that reads like yours.
Your username is reserved while Premium is active, and held for 60 days if it lapses.
Your conversations, preserved
Back up and restore your chats, text and images, locked with a key only you hold.
Search your chat history on your phone after restoring it.
5 GB of shared room for backups and media you have not yet downloaded.
Communication on your terms
Schedule messages to send later: write now, pick the day and time, and NIDEA sends it for you.
Stay signed in on up to 3 devices.
Share files of up to 128 MB, and run groups of up to 500 people.
Hush
Start Hush chats, private rooms that leave no trail. Anyone can receive one for free.
You each go by a random alias, new for every chat, and notifications only say "You have a new message", with no name and no preview.
Screenshots and screen recording are blocked, nothing can be copied, forwarded or saved, and a Hush PIN keeps messages blurred until you reveal them.
5 GB
storage
128 MB
file sharing
500
people per group
3
devices at once
Subscription terms
How it works, in plain words.
The full rules are in the Terms of Use, and how we handle payment data is in the Privacy Policy.
- Paying
- You pay when you start. Payments are handled by Paystack. We never see or store your card number; we keep only a reference that lets us charge the card you saved.
- Renewing
- Monthly and yearly plans renew by themselves until you cancel. We email you 2 days before each renewal.
- Cancel any time
- Cancel any time. You keep Premium to the end of the period you paid for, then it stops. Nothing else is taken from you.
- Keep Premium while we retry
- We try again each day for up to 5 days and you keep Premium while we do. If it still fails, Premium stops and everything free stays as it is.
- What happens to your things
- Your username stays held for you for 60 days, and you have 60 days to restore your backup. Chats, calls and status stay free, always.
- Price changes
- People who have already subscribed keep the price they signed up at until they cancel.
Premium, answered.
Is there a free trial of Premium?
Premium starts when you subscribe, and you can try starting Hush free for 7 days first, from inside the app.
Where do I buy it?
On this website, not in the app.
Is my backup private?
Yes. Only you hold the key, so nobody at NIDEA can open it. It covers your text and images.
Can I use Premium on more than one phone?
Yes, up to 3 at once. You can sign any of them out under Privacy settings.
More answers are in the Help Centre.