This project won the first prize 🥇 at Telegram Lightweight Client Contest and now is an official Telegram client available to anyone at web.telegram.org/a.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Online
Wire Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to Wire is Signal, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Telegram, Element, Tox and SimpleX Chat. You're spoiled for choice with Instant Messengers like Wire: we list more than 100 alternatives for Android, iPhone, the web, Windows and Mac.
Alternatives list
- 55 Telegram Web A alternatives
Chitchatter is a free (as in both price and freedom) communication tool. Designed to be the simplest way to connect with others privately and securely, it is:
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
United States
A fork of Signal for Android with proprietary Google binary blobs removed. Uses OpenStreetMap for maps and a websocket server connection, instead of Google Maps and Firebase Cloud Messaging.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Android
- F-Droid
VeilidChat is a 1-to-1, person-to-person text only chat application which serves as a technology demonstration for the Veilid application development framework. All communication is end to end encrypted, authenticated, private routed, and peer-to-peer. It's currently in early beta.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- United States
69 Mesh.im alternativesTechnitium Mesh is a secure, anonymous, peer-to-peer (p2p), open source instant messenger designed to provide end-to-end encryption. Primary aim of developing this instant messenger is to provide privacy which is achieved using cryptography and anonymity using Tor network.
Platforms
- Windows
India
Zero Knowledge, end-to-end encrypted collaboration tool for teams and businesses. Reviewable source code. Python wrapper for bots & integrations. Encryption white paper. Native offline mode. Faster file-sharing. Built for enterprise.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- United States
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Quaternion is a cross-platform Qt5-based desktop IM client for Matrix, a reference desktop application using libQMatrixClient. Source code, issue tracker, roadmap etc. can be found at GitHub. Releases (with links to cross-platform source code archives, as well as binaries for...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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
- Senders send messages stamped with Bitcoin ecash to Nostr relays. The Nostr relays collect the Bitcoin ecash, then deliver messages to receivers.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Android
Ventrilo is a real-time voice chat software for group communications with surround sound support.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- United States
160 Tauria alternativesFully end-to-end encrypted business collaboration platform that is the only on the market supporting E2EE HD video conference up to 100 participants.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- United States
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Android
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