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title: About Ente
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description: >
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An overview of Ente: the company, and the people behind it, and the products
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that we make.
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# About
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Ente is a end-to-end encrypted platform for privately, reliably, and securely
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storing your data on the cloud. On top of this platform, Ente offers two
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products:
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- **Ente Photos** - An alternative to Google Photos and Apple Photos
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- **Ente Auth** - A free 2FA alternative to Authy
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Both these apps are available for all desktop (Linux, Mac, Windows) and mobile
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(Android, iOS and F-Droid) platforms. They also work directly in your web
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browser without you needing to install anything.
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More products are in the pipeline.
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## History
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Ente was the founded by Vishnu Mohandas (he's also Ente's CEO) in response to
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privacy concerns with major tech companies. The underlying motivation was the
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understanding that big tech had no incentive to fix their act, but with
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end-to-end encrypted cross platform apps, there was a way for people to take
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back control over their own data without sacrificing on features.
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### What does Ente mean?
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In Malayalam, Vishnu's native language, "ente" means "mine". Thus "Ente Photos"
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has the literal meaning "my photos".
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This was a good name, but still Vishnu looked around for better ones. But one
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day, he discovered that "ente" means "duck" in German. This unexpected
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connection sealed the deal. We should ask him why he likes ducks so much, but
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apparently he does, so this dual meaning ("mine" / "duck") led him to finalize
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the name, and also led to the adoption of "Ducky", Ente's mascot:
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</div>
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For the full origin story of Ducky you can check out
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[this blog post](https://ente.io/blog/ducky/).
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### How do I pronounce Ente?
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en-_tay_. Like ca<i>fe</i>.
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## Get in touch
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If you have a support query that is not answered by these docs, please reach out
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to our Customer Support by sending an email to support@ente.io
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To stay up to date with new product launches, and behind the scenes details of
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how we're building Ente, you can read our [blog](https://ente.io/blog) (or
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subscribe to it via [RSS](https://ente.io/blog/rss.xml))
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To suggest new features and/or offer your perspective on how we should design
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planned and upcoming features, use our
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[GitHub discussions](https://github.com/ente-io/ente/discussions)
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Or if you'd just like to hang out, join our
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[Discord](https://discord.gg/z2YVKkycX3), follow us on
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[Twitter](https://twitter.com/enteio) or give us a shout out on
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[Mastodon](https://mstdn.social/@ente)
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