Keeping a room, and deleting a conversation
Everything works signed out. Signing in is about keeping things rather than unlocking them, and it is worth knowing exactly which things.
Last updated 1 September 2026
Without an account
A room works, translates, corrects and lets you tap words. The rooms this device has been in are remembered by the browser, so clearing your browser data loses the list, though the rooms themselves are still there if you have the code.
A room nobody has claimed holds 150 messages.
With one
The words you save, the corrections you were given and their review schedule follow the account into every room you use, on any device you sign in on.
Rooms you keep are listed on your account page, under Chat, Learn or Teach depending on which they are, and their limit rises to 5,000 messages.
A room you keep can also ask before letting anybody in, since asking needs somebody to answer and a room nobody has kept has nobody to ask.
There is no password. Signing in is a link sent to your address.
Premium adds a page students can start a lesson from, and the snippet that puts it on a site of your own.


Rooms nothing was said in
A room that never got a message is cleared up: a day after somebody joined it, or a week after it was made if nobody ever did. Make one and share the code next month and it will not be there.
One message is enough to keep it. Nothing that has been used in is ever removed for being old.
Deleting a conversation
Anybody in a room nobody owns can delete the conversation. Every message goes, for everyone, and the room stays open so you can carry on in it.
A room somebody has kept can only be cleared by them.
A room you were asked into is not yours to delete, but you can leave it. Your account page lists them under Rooms you joined, and leaving gives up your seat: the conversation stays for everybody else, and the code still works if you want back in.
A room can also clear itself. Tick “Clear it when I leave” in a room you own and its history goes once you have been gone for as long as you set, which is meant for a bubble on a website that strangers press.
You can also remove a single message you sent. Only your own, and it goes for everybody.
Getting rid of everything
Email hi@crossconvo.com from the address you signed up with and the account goes, along with your rooms, saved words, corrections and tutor page.
- Starting a room and inviting somebody
- How everyone reads in their own language
- Learning a language here
- Practising with Ren when nobody else is around
- Speaking instead of typing
- Reviewing the words you saved
- Finding out what you keep getting wrong
- Learning a language written in a script you cannot read
- Talking to somebody who does not share your language
- Putting a translating chat room on your own site
- Using Cross Convo to teach