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... Open Source, secure, almost the same usability than WhatsApp. Business model is known. Respects privacy. konsumschaf • Dec 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree because it's free software, secure, and community-contributed rather than corporate-backed Guest • Oct 2017 • 6 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Secure. Open source. Not owned by Facebook jamiegray • 11 days ago Disagree Agree The encryption is by default and open source NickFreeman • Apr 2019 Disagree Agree Secure, encrypted, open source, privacy-minded madpet • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree From client to server, everything is open Lura • Mar 2019 Disagree Agree The client is Open Source. Nevertheless it lacks free software on the server side. It's possible to host your own signal server but there is no option for federation. You can build up your own 'walled garden' Guest • Mar 2019 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 True privacy, allows you to control your messages, open source, no tracking, spying, and provider cannot access your messages. Guest • Sep 2018 Disagree Agree It's open source, making the chance of someone being able to implement a backdoor slim to none. Guest • Sep 2017 • 9 agrees and 6 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 Has every feature of WhatsApp, but also e.g. disappearing messages, custom colourded destign etc.! Guest • Nov 2017 Disagree Agree Open source, real end-to-end encryption, no metadata collection. Guest • Oct 2016 • 12 agrees and 8 disagrees 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 Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad Chrome Ubuntu Touch Apps with End-to-End Encryption Encrypted chat Security focused Open Source apps ... Video calling Encrypted calls Encrypted Connection Privacy-friendly Self destructing messages Video calling Voice Call Chat Client side encryption Color coding Electron based Encrypted VoIP calls Forward Secrecy Group chat Group Messaging 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 479 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... Elegant UI, encrypted communication, on all relevant operating systems, has great VoIP and video call quality and so on. Guest • May 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Basically Signal on steroids. Also, open source and doesn't ask for your phone number, allows creation of throwaway accounts as well as basic group conversation functionality. Perfect. Guest • Apr 2019 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Crossplatform messaging with end-to-end encryption... Just like iMessage Guest • Mar 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree 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 • 17 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 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Cannot check Outlook for common contacts. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 27 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Personal $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad Software as a Service (SaaS) Apps with End-to-End Encryption Security focused Encrypted chat Video calling ... Voice Call Encrypted calls Group chat Open Source apps Share your screen Anonymity Encryption Integrated File Sharing Multiple Account support Photo Sharing Privacy focused Privacy Protected Private Chat Secure File Sharing File Sending Video calling Voice messages WebRTC Add a feature 216 Like
Tox Send messages, files, create groups and make Tox to Tox audio and video calls. Securely. 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 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree 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 • 4 agrees and 2 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 Decentralisation Group chat Peer-To-Peer Point-to-point encryption Video calling Voice Call Add a feature 407 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... 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 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Decentral (federation), sure. Open source - client, protocol and server User6044478 • May 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree 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 • 9 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad Self-Hosted Chrome Safari F-Droid Firefox Decentralized Apps with End-to-End Encryption Voice Call Group chat ... Matrix.org protocol Video calling Clean design Community based Custom widgets Direct Messaging DRM Free Encrypted chat Federated GitHub integration Group collaboration Integrated File Sharing MarkDown support Mobile friendly File Sending Server Moderation Server side history Slack integration Team Collaboration Video calling Web Integaration Add a feature 239 Like
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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone BSD iPad Chat Apps with End-to-End Encryption Group chat iPhone/iPod sync ... Support for Multiple protocols Multiple Account support OTR Plugins Video calling WebRTC Add a feature 299 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 Group chat Data API Integrated File Sharing ... MarkDown support Multi Channel On-premises software Plugin API File Sending Slack integration Supports XMPP Add a feature 158 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 • 1 agrees and 2 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 Chat Bot ... Distributed Encrypted chat GNU/linux-libre Group chat Java Real time collaboration Server side history Team Collaboration Voice Call WebRTC Add a feature 121 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 117 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 Gpg encryption Group chat Group Messaging OTR Self destructing messages Chat Federated OMEMO Open Source apps Public groups chat Add a feature 66 Like
Franz Franz is a free messaging app / former Emperor of Austria and combines chat & messaging services into one application. Franz currently supports Slack, WhatsApp... Franz is not a messaging application, it just allows you to group up multiple messaging apps like messenger, whatsapp, slack etc Guest • Aug 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Support for Multiple protocols Gitter integration Gmail integration iPhone/iPod sync ... Lightweight wrapper Multiple Account support Slack client Slack integration Unified messaging Web application wrapper Add a feature 99 Like
Keybase Keybase is a new and free security app for mobile phones and computers. For the geeks among us: it's open source and powered by public-key cryptography. Keybase... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Ruby JavaScript Go (Programming Language) Java Encrypted chat Git integration Ad-free Connecting Mastondon Identities ... Drive Encryption Apps with End-to-End Encryption Facebook integration GitHub integration Java PGP Encryption Private repositories Public key encryption Security focused Self destructing messages Team Collaboration Twitter integration Two-Step verification Add a feature 53 Like
Zulip Zulip is a group chat app. Its most distinctive characteristic is that messages are threaded by topic, helping you have long-running, organized conversations.... Messages seperated by streams and topics hrishikeshpatil • Jan 2018 Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet BSD Self-Hosted Threaded Conversations Group collaboration Chat Bot Community based ... GitHub integration Group chat Integrated File Sharing Live topics MarkDown support Team Collaboration Add a feature 139 Like
Silence Protect your communication in transit and on your phone. Silence (formerly SMSSecure) is a full replacement for the default text messaging application: all messages are... Free Open Source Android Encrypted chat Add a feature 43 Like
Briar An open-source decentralized and encrypted messaging app even without internet connection via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Messages are stored securely on your device, not in... Free Open Source Android Decentralized Bluetooth Support Encrypted chat Apps with End-to-End Encryption ... Group chat Night mode/Dark Theme No Internet required Non-cloud solution Works Offline Peer-To-Peer Sync via TOR network Support for TOR Add a feature 27 Like
ChatSecure ChatSecure is a free and open source messaging app that features OTR encryption over XMPP. Free Open Source iPhone iPad Encrypted chat Integrated File Sharing OTR Add a feature 60 Like
