Telegram Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security. It’s superfast, simple and free. It is like SMS, but more powerful. Telegram can be used on a desktop PC without the need of a mobile smartphone. Especially useful for older people, who don't use smartphones. Guest • Nov 2016 • 23 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree You can have a username that you can change any time, so you don't have to share your phone number with strangers in groups mrmbl • May 2017 • 14 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Fast, stable, and cross-platform messaging. CeesT • Mar 2018 • 8 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree In my opinion is a much better messages application than Whatsapp, it has a Desktop version, private groups, supergroups, bots, stickers, video messages, and much more, also you can use the desktop version with no need of having the app on your phone. That's very cool. Ivann • Jul 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Because it has everything that WhatsApp has what you need, but everything is better and there are more features. You can use it on multiple devices and you phone doesn't have to be on and connected to the internet. There are bots, stickers (you can create your own stickerpack), etc. LudwigSchindler • Aug 2018 Disagree Agree an astonishing messenger very fast and feature rich yass1nz • Jul 2018 Disagree Agree Same features, but more open to developers ruvenssgwilches • Nov 2018 Disagree Agree Many functions while protecting data. Many people are already registered. Guest • Nov 2018 Disagree Agree Same type of interface. Lacks video call peer to peer. Guest • 10 days ago Disagree Agree Telegram doesn't end-to-end encrypt all messages (WhatsApp do) Guest • Jan 2019 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Speed. Multi-device. Design. Cloud. Security. Unlimited. non-commercial. Open-Source. Full control of the app. Every other feature in Telegram-Whatsapp. ykaner • Jul 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Security, number of different features, not-linked to >Facebook Guest • Aug 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It's the messenger as it has to be. Free, fast, packs a very large amount of features, but doesn't throw them at a new user, which can scare off less advanced ones. There are a ton of small details that make me feel that everything's just done right in Telegram Guest • Oct 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Telegram offers open source code which already allowed creation of some very good clients being a bit different than the original app which makes it very flexible. It's like Linux Distibutions - there's a version for any need available! Guest • Mar 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree it has a desktop version as a web version, you can create your personal bots and also use as a cloud (Dropbox) to save your files. Guest • Nov 2017 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree This is the best app of chat! secure, simple and amazing :D srjefers • Nov 2017 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree the encryption from whatsapp is more secure. Whatsapp has end-to-end encrypted group chats and is in this case more secure than telegramm. But if you use Signal you can have both. arndtadler • May 2018 • 4 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree Agree It has tons of features, It's much faster and easier to use. Best encryption out there, is not controlled and monitored by Facebook. Guest • Jul 2017 • 3 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree Agree They take security very seriously and all features you see on WhatsApp were introduced like a year before in Telegram. With Telegram you can also have all your conversations sync on any device and you can easily find shared links, files, photos... Guest • Apr 2016 • 2 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree It's more private and secure. I don't feel like Facebook is spying on me. cerabee • Oct 2016 • 4 agrees and 9 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Mac Windows Linux Web Windows Mobile ... Android iPhone Blackberry Android Tablet BSD Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Android Wear PortableApps.com FreeBSD Stickers Lightweight Chat Bot Encrypted chat ... Cloud sync Apps with End-to-End Encryption Integrated File Sharing Group chat Public groups chat Secret chats Voice Call Ad-free Multi Device Support Persistent History Portable Security focused Large File Transfer Anonymous groups Anonymous Secure Filesharing Built-in Photo editor Sync Contacts Encrypted calls Encrypted VoIP calls GPS Location Tracking IFTTT integration In-Game Overlay Integrated File Sharing Messages in cloud Multiple languages Multiple Account support Works Offline Based on phone number Photo Sharing Privacy focused Progressive Web App Push to talk Search by tags Self destructing messages Share Videos Switching between platform Sync across Devices Support for Themes Two factor authentication Video calling Voice messages Add a feature 1173 Like
Signal TextSecure and RedPhone have been merged to create Signal! Using Signal, you can communicate instantly while avoiding SMS fees, create groups so that you can chat in... because it's free software, secure, and community-contributed rather than corporate-backed Guest • Oct 2017 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Open source, real end-to-end encryption, no metadata collection. Guest • Oct 2016 • 10 agrees and 8 disagrees Disagree Agree It's open source, making the chance of someone being able to implement a backdoor slim to none. Guest • Sep 2017 • 6 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree free, open-source, encrypted, good privacy - doesn't store metadata. has most of the features of whatsapp. Guest • Jan 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Secure, encrypted, open source, privacy-minded madpet • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Open Source, secure, almost the same usability than WhatsApp. Business model is known. Respects privacy. konsumschaf • Dec 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree True privacy, allows you to control your messages, open source, no tracking, spying, and provider cannot access your messages. Guest • Sep 2018 Disagree Agree Has every feature of WhatsApp, but also e.g. disappearing messages, custom colourded destign etc.! Guest • Nov 2017 Disagree Agree It's also based around phone number ID, but open-source and fully secure. dericke • Feb 2017 • 4 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree it doesn't log user activity and is free software, has all the features of WhatsApp Guest • Nov 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad Chrome Ubuntu Touch Apps with End-to-End Encryption Encrypted chat Security focused Texting ... Video calling Encrypted calls Encrypted Connection Self destructing messages Video calling Voice Call Color coding Electron based Encrypted VoIP calls Forward Secrecy Group chat Integrated File Sharing Mobile friendly Night mode/Dark Theme Works Offline Protected by Password Based on phone number Privacy focused Private messaging File Sending Voice messages Add a feature 427 Like
Skype An instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services. Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Blackberry Chrome OS Windows S Android Tablet BSD Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Android Wear PortableApps.com Share your screen Video calling Exchange Integration IFTTT integration ... Microsoft Office integration Video calling Voice Call Add a feature 2407 Like
Tox Send messages, files, create groups and make Tox to Tox audio and video calls. Securely. Focused on security messages are encrypted and it is Open Source. Like whatsapp, you can send files, groups chats and video messaging. Skype is more popular with normies, but Tox has all the bells and whistles that whatsapp did. Guest • Aug 2018 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Secure and high quality peer-to-peer communication, audio and video group calls, and unlimited file transfers. The only disadvantage compared to alternatives is that you can only successfully communicate if both peers are online, but that is part of the nature of the protocol and thus safety is prioritized. MetaPixel_ • Aug 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet BSD Decentralized Encrypted chat Peer-To-Peer Privacy focused ... Built-in player Apps with End-to-End Encryption Share your screen Security focused Video calling Ad-free Anonymity Anonymous Secure Filesharing Client side encryption Group chat Peer-To-Peer Point-to-point encryption Texting Video calling Voice Call Add a feature 395 Like
Wire Wire is a secure and private messenger for phones, tablets and desktop. Crystal clear voice and video calls, private group chats, file sharing, audio and video messages... More a competition for skype then whatsapp. however there's nothing you can do on whatsapp that you cannot do on wire. its trustworthy, has phone calls, can be used on PC/Mac as well.. registration with phonenumber is optional, which is nice. Guest • Nov 2016 • 15 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree You don't need to give your phone number for use. Still safe, good and nice chat app. On phone and on pc, web too. Guest • Jul 2017 • 6 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Cannot check Outlook for common contacts. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 24 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Personal $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad Apps with End-to-End Encryption Security focused Encrypted calls Encrypted chat ... Group chat Integrated File Sharing Photo Sharing Privacy focused Privacy Protected Share your screen Secure File Sharing Video calling Voice Call WebRTC Add a feature 195 Like
Hangouts Hangouts is a messaging app that lets you send and receive messages, photos and more, and even start free video and voice calls – one to one or with a group! ... Free Windows Web Android iPhone Chrome OS ... Android Tablet iPad Chrome Android Wear Video calling Gmail integration Group chat Multi Device Support ... Share your screen Share your screen Texting Supports archiving conversations Voice Call Voice messages WebRTC Add a feature 970 Like
Riot.im Riot (formerly Vector) is an opensource interoperable app running on Web, iOS and Android. It is built around chat rooms, both public and private and provides messaging... It is open source, encrypted (end to end), the server is also open source, which means that you or your university could run the server for you. This last point makes it very solid in the long run (like email survived because the protocol was federated). Guest • Feb 2017 • 8 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree besides what is already mentioned, it's a client for matrix which is a chat network attempting to connect people from different platforms (also using bridges) and it's decentralized. Easy to use, perfect for geeks, though! Guest • May 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Decentral (federation), sure. Open source - client, protocol and server User6044478 • May 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad Self-Hosted Chrome Safari F-Droid Firefox Apps with End-to-End Encryption Decentralized Group chat Matrix.org protocol ... Video calling Voice Call Community based Custom widgets DRM Free Encrypted chat GitHub integration Group collaboration Integrated File Sharing MarkDown support File Sending Server Moderation Server side history Slack integration Team Collaboration Video calling Add a feature 200 Like
Mattermost Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted Slack alternative. As an alternative to proprietary SaaS messaging, Mattermost brings... Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad Self-Hosted JavaScript Go (Programming Language) Cloudron Team Collaboration Data API Group chat Integrated File Sharing ... MarkDown support On-premises software Plugin API Slack integration Supports XMPP Add a feature 142 Like
Matrix.org Matrix is an open standard for decentralized persistent communication over IP. It can be used for decentralised group chat, WebRTC signaling, IoT-data transfer, ... You can choose, which client you like the most and use it Guest • May 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad Self-Hosted WebRTC Python JavaScript Go (Programming Language) Java Perl Apps with End-to-End Encryption Decentralized Chat Bot Distributed ... Encrypted chat GNU/linux-libre Group chat Real time collaboration Server side history Team Collaboration WebRTC Add a feature 104 Like
Jami Voice, video and chat communications, secure, decentralized, strong privacy and freedoms. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Decentralized Distributed Apps with End-to-End Encryption Peer-To-Peer ... Share your screen Video calling Add a feature 107 Like
Viber Viber is a mobile application that lets you make free phone calls and send text messages to anyone who also has the application installed. . Freemium Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Windows RT Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad Blackberry 10 Apple Watch Call Transfer Group chat Hidden chat Multiple languages ... Push to talk Secret chats Video calling Voice Call Add a feature 302 Like
Conversations 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]. ... It is open source, using the XMPP protocol, you can host your own (XMPP) server, it has a nice layout and much more... Guest • Mar 2018 • 6 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Android Android Tablet Decentralized Apps with End-to-End Encryption Encrypted chat Picture sharing ... Encrypted Connection Chat Bot Group chat Group Messaging Self destructing messages Gpg encryption OTR Public groups chat Add a feature 62 Like
Facebook Messenger Facebook Messenger is a faster way to message. Reach friends right on their phones, get and send messages fast, message everyone at once and more. Top Features: •... Free Windows Web Android iPhone Blackberry ... Windows S Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Android Wear Group chat In-app Money Transfer Supports archiving conversations Video calling ... Voice Call Add a feature 202 Like
Pidgin Pidgin is an easy to use, multi-protocol chat client client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, XMPP, and more chat networks all at once. aim chat-clients extensible gadu-gadu google-talk YES NO
Jitsi Jitsi (previously SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator with full end-to-end encryption that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, ICQ/AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, GTalk/Hangouts extensions, as well as OTR... aim-clients audio-conferencing chat-clients desktop-sharing end-to-end-encryption YES NO
Empathy Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application. aim-messaging chat-clients facebook-messaging gadu-gadu gadu-gadu-clients Discontinued Empathy is currently unmaintained. Last version, 3.25, released in August 2017, can be still downloaded from the official website. YES NO
Gajim The goal of Gajim is to provide a full featured and easy to use Jabber client. Gajim works nicely with GNOME, but does not require it to run. It is released under the GNU General Public License. aim chat-clients encrypted-chat google-talk group-chat YES NO
Xabber Open source Jabber (XMPP) client with multi-account support, clean and simple interface. Being both free (as in freedom!) and ad-free, Xabber is designed to be the best Jabber client for Android . chat-clients encrypted-chat google-talk jabber xmpp YES NO
Dino Dino is a modern open-source chat client for the desktop. It focuses on providing a clean and reliable Jabber/XMPP experience while having your privacy in mind. Using GTK+/Vala. end-to-end-encryption group-chat gtk+ multi-language multiple-account-support YES NO
App for WhatsApp App for WhatsApp is an advanced Mac desktop client for WhatsApp. social-network YES NO
