Consider this area of your life covered. tayp allows you to send and receive smart exposure alerts about sexually transmitted infections, without revealing identities. From notification to testing, in seconds.
tayp handles the sensitive parts so you don't have to. No names. No numbers. No awkward conversations.
No account or login required. Open the app and you're ready. Let's keep things simple.
When two people connect via the tayp app, an encrypted link is created and stored privately. No personal details are ever exchanged.
If you receive STI results, you can inform past partners by sending a privacy-preserving alert through your partner chain. Your identity is never revealed.
Notifications open a guided funnel that leads directly to ordering a certified home test. From exposure to action in seconds.
Partner connections are stored as encrypted links with pseudonymized identifiers attached. tayp knows two devices connected, nothing else.
You never create a profile, enter an email, or link a phone number. The app works the moment you open it.
When you trigger an alert, it travels through the partner chain without revealing your identity at any point in the chain.
tayp uses Bluetooth technology to create a secure, encrypted connection between two phones running the tayp app. After sexual contact, two people simply tap “Connect”, and voilà, the interaction is logged and securely stored, without exchanging names, profiles, phone numbers, or any other personal information.
Over time, users build a private contact chain of real-world connections. If someone later wants to recommend STI testing to past partners, they can send a notification through this chain, without sharing their identity. tayp is designed to make partner notification and testing fast, private, and stigma-free.
No, tayp does not require an account, email address, name, any form of login or binding subscription. The app is intentionally designed to work immediately upon opening without requiring user profiles or credentials. Our privacy-by-default architecture ensures that no personal data is collected, stored, or requested. Instead, everything needed to build partner chains happens entirely locally via Bluetooth connectivity, making complete privacy the default user setting.
Yes, your identity is fully protected when sending a notification. When you trigger an awareness notification, the alert is routed through an encrypted partner chain completely stripped of identifying information. While recipients receive the alert, the system architecture ensures there is no technical method for them to trace the notification back to you. Your identity is never shared.
Partner notification is critical because most sexually transmitted infections (STIs) do not show symptoms, allowing them to spread completely unnoticed. This poses a major risk of reinfection, particularly when sleeping with the same partners occasionally: if one person unknowingly carries an asymptomatic infection and remains untested, partners can repeatedly reinfect each other during subsequent encounters. Partner notification effectively closes this gap and breaks the chain of transmission early to protect everyone involved. The process remains entirely private yet highly effective.
Yes, all home tests available through the in-app funnel are highly reliable clinical laboratory tests that provide the same level of medical accuracy you would receive during a traditional doctor's visit. Our accredited laboratory partners operate under strict quality management systems, specifically holding DIN EN ISO 15189 accreditation for medical laboratories and ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for specialized testing environments. These international standards are regularly audited by the German Accreditation Body (DAkkS) to guarantee validated testing methods, continuous quality control, and maximum patient safety. By utilizing these heavily regulated, professional laboratory standards, we ensure that every self-collected home sample is processed with absolute clinical precision.
tayp works exclusively with the best laboratories in the world, and in Germany, that is LabDoc's parent organization Labor Krone MVZ, one of the country's premier, top-tier medical laboratories processing 15,000 to 20,000 samples daily for hospitals and clinics across the entire nation. By leaning on their incredible scale, we achieve major structural cost savings that smaller labs or startups simply cannot match.
It also gives us the unique freedom to offer flexible, smaller testing options at a fair price. While we provide comprehensive full screenings, you can select smaller screenings rather than being forced to pay for a large, pre-set panel of tests every time. Consumer's choice first.
Well, yes, home testing is highly reliable with LabDoc, but when using other providers you should absolutely be aware if your biometrics are sent to other EU countries like Poland or the Czech Republic for analysis, and if they are properly destroyed after. It is surprisingly common for conventional online testing brands to hide their logistics behind vague marketing phrases, offering zero transparency about which third-party facilities are actually handling your test. True safety requires knowing who is processing your sample and verifying that they hold the highest legal credentials available, specifically a strict DIN EN ISO 15189 accreditation for medical laboratories and an ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for specialized testing environments. Just as LabDoc and Labor Krone MVZ do. These premium standards are regularly audited by the German Accreditation Body (DAkkS) to guarantee validated testing methods, clinical quality control and proper disposal of your biometrics.
Think about it: accepting vague or no information from a provider about where your personal biometrics go is weird. You have every right to know the name and credentials of the laboratory processing it from the very start.
The entire process is designed to be simple, fast, and completely secure. First, you order your testing kit directly inside the app using Apple Pay, Google Pay or another preferred payment method. Your kit arrives in entirely normal, unbranded packaging to ensure absolute discretion on your doorstep. Once it arrives, you can easily collect your sample by following the clear instructions provided in German and English. Then, you place your sample into the pre-paid envelope and simply drop it into your closest mailbox. 48 hours after lab receipt, your results will be visible online. Every single test result is thoroughly medically reviewed, commented on, and approved by qualified laboratory physicians, ensuring that LabDoc always keeps a close eye on your sample from the very start. Following this analysis, your sample is subsequently destroyed in strict accordance with German medical regulations.
If your laboratory report indicates an out-of-range clinical finding, the tayp and LabDoc ecosystem fast-tracks your path to treatment by providing a validated diagnostic foundation, as the essential next step is connecting with medical care for treatment. At LabDoc, every report is thoroughly reviewed, commented on, and officially approved by qualified laboratory physicians, giving you clear information on your situation right after analysis. LabDoc operates a direct institutional hotline at +49 5222 8076-0, open Monday through Friday from 8:00 to 19:00 in case you need further assistance after receiving your lab results. Following strict German clinical guidelines, if further medical treatment or a prescription is required, your comprehensive laboratory report is engineered to serve and help your closest doctor initiate targeted therapy.
The app opens a guided funnel that walks you through your options: understanding the situation, ordering a home test directly, and finding local testing resources if preferred. The goal is to make the path from notification to action as short as possible.
tayp was founded by three students who realised that the largest current epidemic, sexually transmitted infections, was being ignored by every product team we knew of. Clinical testing was inconvenient, partner notification was non-existent, and the stigma surrounding both was keeping the cycle alive.
So we started building tayp while still studying. Not because it was easy, but because the gap between what people need and what exists is enormous, and someone has to close it.
We're committed to making sexual health infrastructure that works for real people.
tayp is building global partnerships with healthcare providers, universities, public health organizations, test providers, pharmacies, insurances, and NGOs to scale access to stigma-free sexual health tools.
