Account and Buzzio ID

Your Buzzio account is built around a Buzzio ID and a 12-word recovery phrase — not a personal phone number or email inbox. That is how you stay reachable for private chat without attaching everyday contact details as your public identity.

Get started

1. Install Buzzio and choose create account (or restore an existing one).
2. Write down your 12-word recovery phrase and your Buzzio ID when the app shows them.
3. Confirm you saved the phrase — Buzzio cannot recover it for you if it is lost.
4. Set your account name (first name required; last name optional).
5. Open the main dashboard and start chatting, or finish profile and privacy settings later.

Your Buzzio ID

Your public account address is a randomly generated 12-digit Buzzio ID, shown with dashes for readability (for example 123-456-789-012).

What that means in practice:

• It is not made from your recovery phrase — the ID and the phrase are separate.
• It is not your phone number, personal email, or government ID.
• People can add you by Buzzio ID when your settings allow it.
• You can hide the ID with field-level privacy controls if you want it tighter.

Your 12-word recovery phrase

At account creation, Buzzio generates a 12-word phrase on your device. Messaging keys come from that phrase on-device.

• Buzzio never receives your phrase or private messaging keys.
• Signing in on another phone needs both your Buzzio ID and your 12-word phrase.
• If you lose every device and the phrase (and have no unlockable encrypted backup), private keys and that local history cannot be rebuilt. That is intentional.

Treat the phrase like a master key. Anyone who has it can restore your identity on a new device.

Optional @username

You can set an optional @username that maps to the same account.

Usernames help discovery (for example Stories with Everyone, and people finding you by handle). You can still lock down who sees the username in Privacy settings.

Sign in on another device

Buzzio does not treat a phone number as the account.

1. On the new device, choose sign-in / restore.
2. Enter your Buzzio ID.
3. Enter your 12-word recovery phrase.
4. The device rebuilds your identity and keys, then updates push delivery for that phone.

What usually comes with sign-in: account identity, keys, and public profile/crypto state needed to message again.
What does not appear by default: a full cloud mirror of every private chat. Readable private history stays on each device unless you restore an encrypted backup you control.

Profile privacy controls

In Privacy settings you can control who sees fields such as:

• Last seen and online
• Profile picture
• Bio
• Username
• Buzzio ID
• Who can add me to groups

Typical choices: Everyone, Nobody, My contacts, My contacts except…. Contact-based options need contact sync turned on.

You can also open Privacy check for a summary, and manage Block contacts.

Contact sync (optional)

Contact sync is off by default. When you turn it on, Buzzio can keep a server-side map of saved contacts so features like Stories audiences and contact-based privacy work across devices.

You can turn it off later. Stopping sync ends new updates; previously synced contact maps are cleaned on the product’s cleanup schedule.

Tips and limits

• No personal phone number or email is required to create a Buzzio account.
• New-device login always needs Buzzio ID + 12-word phrase.
• Username: 5–32 characters; letters, numbers, underscore.
• Save the phrase offline somewhere safe before you depend on the account.
• Optional wallet features (if you use them) may share the same phrase — protect it accordingly.

Related features

• Backup and recovery — optional encrypted export / cloud backup for private history you want to restore later.
• Download and get started — first-run walkthrough from install to first chat.
• Privacy model overview — which Buzzio features seal messages vs store shared history.