Wickr

    • Freemium • Proprietary
    • Encrypted Chat
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    What is Wickr?

    Wickr is a free end-to-end encrypted text, video, picture and voice messenger with full sender control.

    Shredder – Irreversibly remove all deleted messages, images, and video content from your device

    Configurable Timer – Set the expiration time on all your messaging content

    No Metadata – Wickr removes all records, geotags and identifying information from your messages and media

    No Ads – Ever

    Secure – Send and receive secure messages, documents, pictures, videos and audio files

    Connect Safely – Your address book will always remain private and will never be stored on our servers

    Anonymous – Your Wickr ID is anonymous to us and anyone outside your Wickr network
    Your conversations can not be tracked, intercepted or monitored.

    Groups – Communicate with groups of up to 10 contacts

    Fun – Add stickers, graffiti and photo filters
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    JohnFastman
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    • Top positive comment  over 3 years ago • 1 reply
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    Although Wickr is not fully open sourced, like Signal or Wire, it does make end-to-end encrypted, zero-knowledge, ephemeral message a priority. It also has the backing of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (one of the few good guys fighting for your rights online) for Wickr's adoption of industry best practices.

    The basic idea is that the developers/owners of the app you are using should not be able to a) read your messages, b) give them to authorities, c) have them in a readable format that hackers could get at if they breached the servers. The way to ensure this is to use end-to-end encryption and, potentially, to have a policy of deleting messages after some time. This is the approach Wickr implements and does it well.

    Switch to Wickr, Signal, Wire or Peerio or Threema if you use Facebook Messenger, Google Allo, Yahoo Messenger, Slack or any of the other privacy disrespecting/disregarding services.

    Barnabas

    Hi, John, I like your reviews. Are you a security pro? It sounds like it. I tried Peerio and I was just told they are closing down. Do you know a good group chat app that uses end-to-end encryption, is user-friendly, has mobile and desktop apps and potentially does threaded response feature?

    I use Wire for one-on-one communication but for a group, it's really messy, as you can't respond to a response. It's all in the same hierarchy so who knows who is responding to what. Even with one-on-one, we are lost sometimes.

    I will check Wickr and Threema as per your recommendation, but if you have anything more please let me know. I have an active YouTube community that I want to find a free speech safe haven for.

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    • Top positive comment  over 2 years ago • 0 replies
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    the encryption is a nice feature

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    rikich
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    • Top negative comment  5 months ago • 1 reply
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    Not open source. After Wickr has been bought by Amazon it's not safe to use this messenger

    generalSeven

    officially bad.

    Reply written 17 days ago

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    Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Wickr, and it has gotten 41 likes

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    • Proprietary and Freemium product.
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    • Average rating of 3.7
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