Delta Chat
Delta Chat looks and feels like other popular messenger apps, but does not involve centralized control, tracking or selling you, friends, colleagues or family out to large organizations. "Privacy by Design" has never been more fun.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- F-Droid
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Decentralized
- Encrypted Email
- IMAP Support
- Encrypted Chat
- Multiple languages
- End-to-End Encryption
- Dark Mode
- Ad-free
- Video Calling
- Unified inbox
- Self Destructing Messages
- Multiple Account support
- Portable
- OpenPGP
Support for Docker- Multi Device Support
- Team Collaboration
- Electron based
Tags
- Chat
- email-based
- autocrypt
Delta Chat News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Delta Chat
Delta Chat Desktop now runs in Firefox and no longer depends on Electron or ChromiumDelta Chat Desktop now runs in Firefox, removing the previous dependency on Electron or Chromium. B...
- POX published news article about Delta Chat
Delta Chat now allows forwarding, editing, and deletion of message, synced accross devicesDelta Chat, a decentralized and secure messaging application, has released a new update featuring s...
- POX published news article about Delta Chat
Delta Chat introduces real-time P2P networking with hole punching and forward-secret E2EEDelta Chat has announced the release of Delta Chat 1.48 across all platforms, following nearly two ...
Recent activities
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What is Delta Chat?
Delta Chat looks and feels like other popular messenger apps, but does not involve centralized control, tracking or selling you, friends, colleagues or family out to large organizations. "Privacy by Design" has never been more fun.
Delta Chat taps into the largest, most diverse, most open and decentralized communication system ever created: the existing e-mail server network. Delta Chat requires no additional server-side infrastructure. Just use a standard e-mail account and start chatting with any of your e-mail contacts, whether they have installed Delta Chat or not.
Technically, Delta Chat is an e-mail application with a modern chat interface. E-Mail in a new dress if you will. Chat and contact data remain on your devices. No uploads of Addressbook, calendar or other personal data. There simply are no Delta Chat servers where anything could be uploaded to. Privacy by design.
Use Delta Chat with anyone out of billions of people: just use their e-mail address. Recipients will see a simple e-mail and may directly reply with their own e-mail app. They don't need to install Delta Chat, visit websites or sign up anywhere. If you send a picture or other media to a Chat group your chat recipients will see a nice regular e-mail with an attachment. If they send a message and attachments back, you will see the media in your Chat for this contact.
Delta Chat sends e-mails using your e-mail account and provider of choice. You can change mobile numbers without any trouble or even work without any SIM card at all. You can export all your Chat data on one device, import it on a new device and happily continue chatting. Not requiring mobile numbers avoids cell-tower and other tracking. Privacy by Design.
You can even host an optimized chatmail server yourself: https://github.com/deltachat/chatmail
Delta Chat information
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- English
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Bulgarian
- Khmer
- Catalan; Valencian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Esperanto
- French
- Galician
- German
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Sardinian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Chinese
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
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Comments and Reviews
An e-mail client with user experience upgraded to the 21st century and end-to-end encryption. Backward compatible with classic unencrypted e-mail.
Is Delta Chat compatible with SMS text messaging? In other words, can I send and receive messages to and from phones that do not have Delta Chat installed? The FAQ does not mention SMS, and the homepage says that Delta Chat works via email.
https://delta.chat/en/help
DeltaChat is an email client with a chat-client interface and built-in encryption. It's like Spike, but free and open-source.
Relies on the network any mail-server. Therefor no need of centralized server structure. When you have several email addresses on servers which have its own management, you get away with a fairly redundant communication app.