Naven
Use case
A private Naven for a school, district, club or team
A custom mode is paid work, quoted per organisation, and the first conversation is free — write to the developer and say what your organisation needs.
Who this is for
Schools and districts, sports clubs, youth organisations and member groups that want their own space inside Naven rather than another app for everyone to install.
The problem
Group chats for an organisation end up scattered across the apps people already have — some on WhatsApp, some on a Facebook group, a few left out entirely because they will not install anything. Nobody can tell who is actually a member, anyone with the link can be added, and when somebody leaves, nothing about that follows them out.
How Naven handles it
- Members are verified before they are in. Being in your organisation's mode is something Naven checks rather than something a link grants, so the space holds only the people who belong in it.
- Your own channels and directory. Members find each other by name inside the organisation, without the address book, the phone numbers, or the public profiles other platforms rely on.
- Your colours, your typeface, your name on it. A mode is a whole-app theme rather than a logo in a corner.
- Nothing to install, on any device, and the ordinary Naven account carries on underneath — the same conversations, the same settings, one step back out whenever somebody wants it.
- It is built and run by one developer, so it is deliberately bespoke: what verification means, who administers it, and what the space contains are decided per organisation.
What it costs
A custom mode is the one thing Naven charges for, because it is bespoke work rather than a feature: verification, channels, a directory and a theme, set up and then run for your organisation. It is quoted per organisation against what you actually need, and the conversation that works out whether Naven suits you at all is free. Naven itself stays free for everybody in it — members are never charged, and there is no advertising.