Thousand Words

They say a picture is worth 1000 words, but I think that was before modern technology made pictures so huge. We scientists at Appy-Daze routinely get more than 3000 words inside a picture. Call it inflation. Inflation is everywhere. It makes everyone so nosy! Being nosy is human nature, I guess, but we kind of like our privacy.

Thousand Words hides your message or file within a copy of any static digital image that Android can open (or take with a camera), and makes it easy to share that new image with others. If you choose to encrypt the data, there is no way to determine - without the passphrase - whether the new image was modified with Thousand Words.

A picture from a typical phone is big enough to embed an 800KB .PDF service manual for a Ducati motorcycle, including all the diagrams and parts lists.

Is it ONLY a funny cat picture? Or, is there more - much MUCH more - to it?

Cool! Weird! Science-y!

We all have things we'd like to communicate without the whole world listening in. This is one more way to do that!

Some very smart people who own white lab coats tested this, and a typical phone camera takes images large enough to hold more than 3000 words! You can receive full PDF files, or even other images that contain other images! 1000 words. Pfft. Inflation isn't all bad, or at least not this time.

So, how much data can an image hold? That depends on the image, but you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Limitations:
- Animated GIF images: not yet...
- Movies: not yet...
- Translations: English, Spanish, and Russian are there. Contact us if you'd like to help translate Thousand Words
- You can embed a text message OR a file. Multiple attachments are a Work-In-Progress.
- Localization is limited to CHARSETs that are supported by UTF-8 encoding.
- The encryption is the strongest that can be exported, which is not very strong. Don't use an image for a BitCoin wallet
- You can only store as much data as the image can hold (this is not a cheap AngeCrypt knockoff)
- Android itself starts misbehaving with images larger than around 55MB in size, and Thousand Words has whatever limits Android imposes on it.

Privacy:
Thousand Words collects NO identifying information Thousand Words embeds NO identifying information or ICBM coordinates. Images received from other Thousand Word users contain NOTHING that can identify the sender, unless the user attaches it themselves. Appy-Daze LLC (We) don't know or care who installs this software as long as they have fun doing so.

Disclaimer:
- If there's a bug, we'll fix it as soon as we can. That's usually the same day.
- Thousand Words encryption is WEAK! Don't trust anything really REALLY important to it. That said, if you forget your passphrase for an image, well, that data is gone. We can't break the encryption in one lifetime - we can't even tell you whether an encrypted image has data or not! Maybe it's really just a funny cat?
- If the image is modified between the time it was created and the time it was loaded in Thousand Words, some or all of the data will be lost. Many popular webs alter uploaded images (Facebook is a good example).
- No, we are not considering a port to iOS at this time.