Wire
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Wire is the most secure collaboration platform featuring messenger, voice, video, conference calls, file-sharing, and external collaboration –all protected by the most secure end-to-end-encryption.
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Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- F-Droid
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Flathub
- Snapcraft
Features
Properties
- Security-focused
- Privacy focused
Features
- End-to-End Encryption
- Video Calling
- Encrypted Chat
- VoiP Calls
- Encrypted calls
- Screen Sharing
- Secure File Sharing
- Ad-free
- Integrated File Sharing
- File Sending
- Multiple Account support
- WebRTC
- Private Chat
- Secure Chat
- Voice Chat
- Voice messages
Tags
- Anonymity
- Security & Privacy
- Encryption
- encrypted-file-sharing
- group-call
- secure-messaging
- File Encryption
- Privacy Protection
- Smartphone Messaging
- private-file-sharing
- Video Chat
- private-messages
- video-chat-encrypted
Wire News & Activities
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What is Wire?
Wire is the most secure collaboration platform featuring messenger, voice, video, conference calls, file-sharing, and external collaboration –all protected by the most secure end-to-end-encryption.
Why Wire?
- Always-on end-to-end encryption
- 1:1 and group messaging
- Voice call
- Video conference
- Screen-sharing
- File-sharing
- Searchable conversations
- Guest Rooms (external collaboration)
- Advanced team management
- iOS, Android & Desktop support
- Available on desktop, mobile, and web app
- Synced in real-time across all devices
Wire Videos
Wire information
Developed by
Wire Swiss GmbH Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free Personal product.Pricing
Subscription that costs $0 per month.Rating
Average rating of 4.1Alternatives
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- Portuguese
- Russian
- Chinese
- Slovene
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AlternativeTo Categories
Social & Communications, Security & Privacy, File Sharing, Remote Work & EducationApple AppStore
- Updated
- 3.04 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
Wire released its server code!
Many employees working on Wire have previously worked on Skype, and Skype's co-founder Janus Friis is backing the project. Wire appears to be trying to restore the privacy features that were removed from Skype when Microsoft acquired the company. Wire's instant messages are encrypted with Proteus (which is based on the Signal protocol.)
Key issues:
The developer has addressed many complaints in a constructive manner, but various problems remain — for example WIRE SERVERS PERMANENTLY RETAIN A LIST OF ALL CONTACTS EVER MADE (which could be abused or stolen by hackers.) Wire has the potential to be a good product, but Signal is currently regarded as superior by security experts, and decentralized systems like Tox or Ricochet with forward security might be preferred.
Another similar product in development: Matrix (protocol)
No link to audit because?
Lightweight, platform is user-friendly.
I want to know if you can free international calls?
Multi platform, easy to use, most secure. I love this app.
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Software as a service is a mark of lazy engineers. This is evidenced by the labyrinthine and messily-documented installation procedure.
2 stars for appalling value and no value security.
[Edited by DL300, May 23]
Wire was sold to a US holding and updated their privacy policy without informing their users.
https://blog.privacytools.io/delisting-wire/