At this point in the digital world, our personal digital metadata – not just our messages, but data about who talks to whom, when, and where – has been marketed, auctioned, and monetized hundreds of thousands of times over.
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
ChatSecure Alternatives
Apps similar to ChatSecure include Signal, which is free and open source. Other options are Telegram, Element, Tox and SimpleX Chat. Instant Messengers like ChatSecure are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Android, iPhone, Windows, Linux and Mac.
Alternatives list
Utopia P2P Ecosystem. Utopia is a feature-rich platform that is specifically designed to protect privacy of communication, confidentiality, and security of personal data. Utopia is a decentralized network, with no central server involved in data transmission or storage.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Iceland
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Chat, SMS, and share all of your files all in one place. Perzo is the secure and more productive solution to your communication needs.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
A great way to stay in touch with your relatives, by sending both SMS and MMS messages. The app properly handles group messaging too, just like blocking numbers from Android 7+.
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
Israel
monocles chat is a fork of blabber.im and Conversations with some changes, to improve usability.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- F-Droid
Germany
EU
Smoke Messenger is an open-source Instant Messenger that is known as the first mobile Messenger worlwide using the encryption algorithm McEliece. To be downloaded at F-Droid.org or Github.com. Smoke provides with its own Server-Software: SmokeStack-Echo-Server.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Android
Finch is a console-based IM program that lets you sign on to AIM, Jabber, MSN, IRC, Yahoo!, and other IM networks. It runs on Unixes. It uses GLib and ncurses.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Xfce
Platforms
- Windows
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VIPole is a Secure Instant Messenger for secure messaging, encrypted voice/video calls, group chats that provides highly secure and strongly encrypted environment for all your communications and files you exchange over internet.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
Russia
+7
26 PS: Post Scriptum alternativesSecure your files and communication with the most advanced encryption system available in the market. Full anonymity, 100% security, ultimate privacy. Your photos, PDFs, passwords and communication fully encrypted at one place.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Czechia- EU
164 Messenger for WhatsApp alternativesMessenger for WhatsApp™ (WA Messenger) is a wrapper for WhatsApp Web. It loads WhatsApp Web in toolbar popup UI and has badge icon text notification for all new conversations (even if toolbar popup is closed).
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Firefox
119 Sesame Chat alternativesSesame is a messaging app that gives you a self-aware digital assistant to protect messages on your behalf: your own Personal Cognitive Messenger™.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
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