🇬🇭 Made in Accra · Beta opening soon

Voice-first.
Africa-ready.

The messenger built for African networks. HD voice notes that don't eat your data. Calls that survive 2G. End-to-end encrypted. Made by Africans, for Africans.

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This is WAYA, running right now.

Not a screenshot. The actual app, embedded live. Tap inside, scroll around, feel the speed.

↑ This is the same app shipping to iOS & App Store. Try "Continue as Charles Mensah — Founder #1" to explore.

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African voices, understood.

WAYA AI is built from the ground up for African languages and African voices. Speak Twi to a friend who only reads English. Get long voice notes summarised. Search your voice history. The first messenger that actually gets the way Africa talks.

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WAYA Translate

Send a voice note in Twi. Friend reads it in English. Reply in Yoruba. They read it in French. Cross-language conversations, finally.

Q3 2026
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WAYA Whisper

Every voice note transcribed to text on-device. Read it in church, in meetings, in silence. Search your voice history like email.

With MVP
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WAYA Summary

Five-minute auntie voice note? Get a one-sentence summary first. "Aunt says she's coming Sunday with food." Decide if you need to listen.

Q4 2026
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WAYA Voice Cleaner

Recording at the market? In traffic? At a church service? AI strips the noise. Crystal-clear voice, regardless of where you are.

With MVP
A glimpse — WAYA Translate
🎙 Kwame sends — 0:14 Twi
↓ AI translates ↓
"Hey, I just got to the airport. The flight is delayed two hours, so let's meet at the new place by the food court. Bring jollof if you can — I'm starving."

Languages on the roadmap: Twi · Ga · Ewe · Hausa · Yoruba · Igbo · Swahili · Zulu · Wolof · Amharic · Pidgin English

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Voice notes that ship fast

Tiny files. ~60 KB per 30 seconds. 8× less data than WhatsApp. Your bundle thanks you.

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Calls that survive 2G

Adaptive Opus codec, intelligent reconnect. WAYA calls keep going when other apps drop.

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End-to-end encrypted

Signal protocol. We cannot read your messages. We cannot hear your calls. Ever. By design.

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Low-data mode

One toggle: auto-download off, compressed previews, audio-only calls. Your data plan, your control.

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Group chats up to 50

Voice notes, photos, and the joke that started it all. Family WhatsApp without the data drain.

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Made in Ghana

Built for Africa first, ready for the world. Designed for unreliable networks, not unlimited fibre.

FROM THE FOUNDER

Why I'm building WAYA.

I'm Charles Mensah. I'm from Accra. Every time I send a voice note to my mum, I watch my data tick down in real time. That math should not be hard in 2026.

"WhatsApp won the world. They didn't win Africa specifically — they're just what we ended up with because nothing else worked here either. That changes today."

— Charles Mensah, Founder · 🇬🇭

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