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Conversations

XMPP client designed with ease of use and security in mind Created by Siacs

Free Open Source
Android
Android Tablet

Conversations is a privacy focused, open source XMPP Texting [Jabber] client for Android 4.0+ smart phones with wife-approved easy encryption [OTR, OMEMO, or GPG].

[Note]
**You can download the compiled apk for free from F-Droid**:
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse%20/?fdid=eu.siacs.conversations

or

- you can buy Conversations in the Google Play Store
- if you are a software developer, you can check out the sources from GitHub and use [Gradle](Gradle) to build your own apk file More Info »

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Official Website GitHub

Features

Decentralized Encrypted chat End-to-end encryption Group chat OTR Picture sharing Self destructing messages Add a feature

Categories

Backup & Sync File Sharing Social & Communications

Tags

audio-chat chat-clients decentralized encrypted-chat end-to-end-encryption federated file-sharing file-upload group-chat infosec instant-messaging jabber messaging mobile-app multi-user-chat otr pgp picture-sharing secure-chat secure-communications secure-messaging self-destructing-messages xmpp xmpp-texting

Conversations was added by shiki in Jun 2015 and the latest update was made in Apr 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2018 There is a history of all activites on Conversations in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Conversations or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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