Chat with anyone on X in a private, focused space built for conversation. No ads. No tracking. Fully end-to-end encrypted.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
United States
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signal-cli is a commandline interface for the Signal messenger. It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. signal-cli uses a patched libsignal-service-java, extracted from the Signal-Android source code.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- Java
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Ubuntu Touch
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Linux Mobile
144 TeleGuard alternativesTeleGuard is the data-secure messenger from Swisscows. TeleGuard encrypts every message and all telephone calls with encryption algorithm currently available: SALSA 20. TeleGuard servers are located in Switzerland, they are not subject to the data protection laws of the EU /...
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Snapcraft
Switzerland
Converse is a messaging app for decentralized, secure, end-to-end encrypted conversations. Built on the XMTP network, Converse lets you own your conversations and take them anywhere whenever you want, ensuring your most important messages—the ones you never want to lose or be...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Android Tablet
- United States
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
Secure messenger that protects against NSO Group (Pegasus) & Cytrox (Predator) from exploiting your iOS device via "zero-click" exploit chains. These exploits are easily delivered via other messaging apps like iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp, etc. Protection for those at the highest risk.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
- United States
Tinfoil Chat (TFC) is a FOSS+FHD peer-to-peer messaging system that relies on high assurance hardware architecture to protect users from passive collection, MITM attacks and most importantly, remote key exfiltration.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Android
White Noise aims to be the most secure private chat app on Nostr, with a focus on privacy and security. Under the hood, it uses the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol to manage group communications in a highly secure way.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
241 Conduit Chat Server alternativesConduit is a simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix. Conduit is an alternative to Synapse and tries to be lightweight and easy to install, but it is still in development.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Raspberry Pi
- Linux
- Debian
- Nix Package Manager
- Docker
- Docker Hub
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
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