It’s open. As of this morning, anyone, anywhere, can create a WIGGWIGG account, no invitation needed.
In July I wrote that Early Access would have to wait until summer: I was missing a licence, and I wanted to hand you applications I’d be proud of. It took the time it took, and I’m proud of what we’re opening today. Let’s take two minutes together: I’ll tell you what changed, and then it’s over to you.
The licence came through
WIGGWIGG is a Canadian company registered with the CRTC as a telecommunications reseller, and now holds the BITS licence, the Basic International Telecommunications Services licence. Telnyx, our upstream provider, supplies the telecommunications infrastructure and the 911 service. Those are two different roles, and I want to name them.
The licence doesn’t open international on its own, though. For texts abroad, our provider first has to certify our numbers for person-to-person traffic, and the request has been with them since late August. I’d rather open international calling and texting together, all of it, than half of it. I’ll report back by October 5, 2026, here and on the international rates page.
The applications
The App Store and Google Play versions are on the way. Meanwhile, the web application works today on your phone as well as your computer, and on Android you can install the preview build right now, in the Play flavour or the without-Google flavour. It’s a preview: there are bugs, and during Early Access I may change how it looks and what it does along the way. Once they’re in the stores, I’ll say so on the forum.
Pricing: what I rebuilt while waiting
I used the wait to redo something that had bugged me from the start: the pricing model. It used to be plans, with minutes and texts that disappeared at the end of the month. For a product whose whole point is giving you back control, selling an allowance that evaporates rang false.
Here’s what’s live today.
A number is $7 a month, with a complete identity included. All your numbers share the same units: one minute or one text is one unit, at 4¢, sent or received. You buy units in packs, from 100 for $4 up to 1,200 for $48, at the same price whether you buy once or set up automatic refill, and automatic refill only turns on if you ask for it. Units never expire and cover Canada.
When you hit zero, there are two cases. If you’ve set a spending limit (it’s $0 by default), everything keeps going at 6¢ a unit, up to the amount you allowed and not a cent more. Once that limit is reached, or if you never set one, what you send is refused until you top up, incoming calls go to voicemail if you have it, and are declined if you don’t, and texts you receive are held, then delivered as soon as you top up. Calls to 911 don’t depend on units or on your spending limit. They depend on your connection, and the civic address you register helps dispatchers send help.
You buy capacity, you use it, it doesn’t vanish. The details are on the pricing page, with worked examples and the list of add-ons.
The heart of WIGGWIGG
The core of WIGGWIGG is giving each part of your life its own identity: a Canadian number for work, another for selling online, another for dating, each with its own encrypted vault for the passwords, contacts and details that go with it. The vault is encrypted on your device before it reaches our servers. The cryptographic core, the part of the code that does the encrypting, is published under the MIT licence, so anyone can read it; the rest of the application’s source code stays closed for now. The security whitepaper describes the whole model, limits included.
What a WIGGWIGG number can do today
A year of work, in one list.
- Your calls follow you. An incoming call can ring up to ten browsers or mobile devices at once, be forwarded to the personal number you gave that identity, go to voicemail, or be declined. You write the rule.
- Strangers introduce themselves first. Call screening asks a stranger to say who they are before your phone rings, with a synthetic message or one you recorded, in French or English. Or, as you pick up, a synthetic voice tells you who is calling and on which line.
- Your hours, your rules. Do-not-disturb and the automatic text reply come with every number. The Advanced Routing module, paid, adds business-hours rules by weekday and time zone, date exceptions, and connecting your calendar to drive them.
- A voicemail that sounds like you. A greeting you upload, have generated from text, or record over the phone. It’s a paid module.
- Texts on every number, pictures optional. Texts are part of every number, one unit each. To send pictures, you also need the MMS module; to receive them, you don’t.
- A filter that explains its verdicts. Two checks run on every call without you switching anything on: the number’s authenticity (STIR/SHAKEN, the standard that confirms the displayed number isn’t forged) and neighbour spoofing (a number dressed up to look like yours). Two more turn on if you want them: carrier reputation and community reports. And your own lists have the final say. The filter tells you why it concluded what it concluded. For now it only warns: your most specific rule is what decides to reject.
- A vault that watches your back. With Vault Premium, free during the 30-day trial and paid after: a health score for your passwords, detection of leaks and reused passwords, and monitoring of your two-factor authentication.
- Your data, and who reads it. You can export your account’s data as JSON, a format any software can read; audio files and pictures download from the application instead. And the Privacy & Data page in your settings shows you, field by field, who can read what, for instance only you, you and us, or unencrypted. I’d rather show you than promise you.
A few things to know before you dive in. Calls and texts travel over the normal phone network, as with any number: Telnyx, our provider, sees in transit what any carrier sees. For your bank’s text verification, keep your cell, because some still refuse internet-based numbers. Bringing your current number to WIGGWIGG isn’t possible yet; taking a WIGGWIGG number elsewhere is, free, through support in the application, and the carrier you’re moving to is the one that accepts the number. The security model is documented in the whitepaper, and an independent audit is planned. What’s coming is on the roadmap.
A real service, under construction
Early Access is a real, paid service, but a product under construction: core features can break, screens change without waiting for a new version, and an announced feature can be pulled while it is rebuilt. When something breaks, write to me, and I’ll fix it. That’s exactly what you’re giving me by being here early, and it’s what makes the product better.
How to get in
You can create an account from any country. The vault, contacts, two identities and the 30-day Vault Premium trial are free everywhere. Phone numbers, their 7-day trial and anything paid, including Vault Premium after its trial, need a Canadian province selected and confirmed for taxes. If you’d read earlier this year that the first accounts would get a perk, I changed my mind: registration is the same for everyone. An invite code, on the other hand, keeps the terms it shows you. The details are on the Early Access page.
If something breaks, write to support in the application: that’s where I answer first. The forum, in English and French, is open for the rest: questions, ideas, and whatever you’re doing with WIGGWIGG that I hadn’t planned for.
Thank you for being here. Truly. Now try WIGGWIGG, make something of it, and tell me where it snags: I read everything, and I answer. I can’t wait to see what you do with it, and I’ll keep you posted, like today.
CAB is the founder of WIGGWIGG, a privacy-first digital identity platform built in Quebec, Canada.