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Element (formerly Riot)
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Bridges to other networks
You're not confined within Element's or even Matrix garden, and you don't have to make users of other networks switch to Matrix.
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Markdown support
Code snippets in chats can be highlighted with Markdown.
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Simple interface
Element has a very simple interface, adding the ability for more inexperienced users to use it.
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VOIP and Videoconferencing
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Supports encryption
Element allows for fully encrypted text, voice, and video chatting.
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Widgets support
Want to watch that flick at YouTube and discuss it at the same time? Have Grafana graphs stacked above your DevOps team chat? Collaboratively edit Google Docs and chat over without switching applications? This is possible with Element.
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Decentralized
An open network for secure, decentralized communication.
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Self-hosting and federated network
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Libre/open source
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Search
Search messages in your current room, or all the rooms you're in. Not subject to a message history limit like Slack.
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Cross platform
Web browser Linux OS X Windows Android iOS
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Large existing community
With public rooms for many people, and you can create your own and let people from the community join.
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Etherpad real-time document collaboration
An easy to activate integration that allows multiple authors to edit a document simultaneously.
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File Sharing
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Supports text, voice, video
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Platforms:
MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android, Browser, iOS
License:
Apache License 2.0
Publisher:
New Vector Ltd
End-to-end encryption:
Yes (optional)
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StealthChat
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Many people have difficulty registering the app
Multiple people have reported not being able to receive the activation code required to register the app.
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Can send self-destructing messages
Messages can be set to self-destruct after a set time.
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Code is not verified
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Offers 3 types of encryption
The app claims to be the only communication app that encrypts data in transit, on disk and on screen. Encryption in transit is used to make sure no-one can listen in on your conversations even if the traffic is going through their servers, encryption on disk is used to make sure that even if someone gets ahold of your phone and is capable of extracting your messages from it they won't be able to read them and screen encryption is essentially a lock screen that sets in after a set amount of time used to make prevent "shoulder surfing".
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Poor support
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Lacks group chat
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Closed source
No way to verify security practices.
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Platforms:
Android / iOS
Required Android Version:
4.0
End-to-end encryption:
Yes
Audio recording:
Yes
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Wickr
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Doesn't require a phone number
Unlike most, you can use your phone but you don't have to. You can register without giving anything and add contacts either via e-mail (only) or phone number.
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Partially Open source
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Content shredder
Wickr has a feature that not only erases all messages, but also overwrites them with junk data.
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Small user base
Wickr claims that one million users have downloaded the app with no information on how many active users they have. But even if every person that has downloaded the app is an active user, the userbase is really small compared to apps like WhatsApp that boast about hundreds of millions of active users.
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Can find other users securely
Instead of using usernames, emails or phone numbers to find other users, Wickr uses hashes derived from phone numbers or email addresses (this applies to the find friends functionality only). Hashes are the result of a one-way cryptographic function, meaning it's purposefully difficult to reconstruct original data (phone numbers and email addresses in this case) from them. For Wickr, hashes are generated on the client's side so that no personal information is ever sent to the Wickr servers. The app finds people on your contact list that also use Wickr by comparing the hashes that get generated from contacts and comparing them to the hashes that are stored on Wickr servers.
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Group messaging
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Messages have user-defined lifespan
Messages can have a lifespan between 3 seconds and 6 days. Received messages arrive locked. Once they are opened by the recipient, a timer starts counting down until the message is deleted. Of course, the recipient can still copy them or take a screenshot.
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By default, doesn't allow taking screenshots
Wickr disables the screenshot functionality altogether when the app is open. However, there are ways to circumvent this, as if the user has a rooted phone and has installed apps to overide this block or if a screenshot is taken via some apps that project the screen to a PC.
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Includes a basic photo editor
The editor allows cropping images, drawing and writing text on them as well as add decorations.
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Signal
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Provides security and privacy
Signal uses an advanced end to end encryption protocol that provides privacy for every message every time.
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Needs access to your phone number and contacts to work
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Free and open source
Signal is free and open source software, enabling anyone to verify its security by auditing the code. It's the only private messenger that uses open source, peer-reviewed cryptographic protocols to keep your messages safe.
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Single device
Signal can only be registered to one mobile device at a time. But you can link Signal to Signal Desktop.
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Supports encrypted group chats
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Servers hosted in the US
A security risk due to National Security letters, which require giving up data to the US state, and making it illegal to disclose that.
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Has a desktop app
Signal Desktop can be used on multiple devices and has most features of the Android version, although it still requires you to register with your phone.
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Unreliable notifications
Sometimes messages won't be received if the Signal app has been closed for a long time or hasn't been opened after booting the device.
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Supports sharing of various different media types
Signal supports: emoji, pictures, videos, audio, contacts, any location and GIF.
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Poor support
Their E-mail adress for support are not working. They have a Community support on here. Sometimes if you need a support, you need to create an account on their forum and need to share a topic and wait for long time.
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Note to Self feature
Allows you to "send: messages to yourself and sync to desktop so you can use Signal as a kind of encrypted Pushbullet alternative
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You can easily view all media exchanged
You can easily view all media shared in the chat without scrolling back to when it was shared.
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Annonymous Sender (Encrypted)
The sender credentials can be encrypted with the rest of the message, leaving only the recipient address readable by the Signal server. Even if Signal wanted they couldn't see who is talking with who by this mean.
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Works everywhere in every country
Unlike most messenger apps, Signal works reliably in all countries by securely circumventing internet censorship.
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Recommended by Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden uses this messenger and recommends it to everyone who is concerned about his privacy.
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Platforms:
Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Publisher:
Open Whisper Systems
End-to-end encryption:
Yes
Media:
images / audio / video / files / contacts / GIFs / location
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WhatsApp
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Straightforward interface
The interface is very simple, fast and easy to use. You can start using it as soon as the app has been downloaded - it does not require setting anything up or registering. You can communicate with anyone in your contacts list that also uses WhatsApp. Includes useful features like seeing when a contact is currently available or typing.
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Shares meta data with Facebook
WhatsApp shares your messaging meta data with Facebook if you do not opt-out in the settings. If you use the same phone number for WhatsApp and Facebook, the profiles can easily be linked. See https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/general/26000016
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Widely used
WhatsApp reported 1.5 billion users in 2018. Your friends are most likely already using WhatsApp, so it's easy to get setup.
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Tied to carrier phone number
WhatsApp cannot be used by people without a smart phone with an active cell plan. If your phone is lost or damaged, or if your phone number changes, you cannot get messages sent by friends without them updating your phone number. You cannot send message to them until you are able to get SMS messages at your phone number.
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Effortlessly builds your contacts by using your phone number as identification
WhatsApp will automatically find all of your contacts currently using Whatsapp and add them to your contacts. This makes it really easy to setup and given that it's the most popular messaging app it's likely that a lot of your contacts are already using it.
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Proprietary
Not open source.
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Message mirroring on web app
WhatsApp can be used from the desktop via Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers. Accessing it requires using the Android app to scan the QR code that's presented on web.whatsapp.com.
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Hard to migrate history cross platform
Migrating your chat history from Android to iOS or the other way around is not so simple. In some cases it requires a 3rd party app and in some the only way is to migrate specific chats one by one.
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Signal protocol
Whatsapp uses the state-of-the-art Signal protocol that ensure strong end-to-end encryption.
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Web interface uses message mirroring
To use your computer to send messages your phone must be on with a consistent data connection.
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One-on-one texts can be encrypted
WhatsApp has implemented end to end encryption for messages sent on it's service. Even WhatsApp has no way to read a users messages.
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Single device
You cannot use the same WhatsApp account on multiple devices (e.g. a tablet, a PC and a cellphone). The account is tied to the device with the specific cellphone number. Chat history is deleted when you sign in to a new account, unless you have created a backup.
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No cloud sync
Messages are not stored on WhatsApp server for privacy and security reasons.
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Limitation on shareable file sizes
WhatsApp now allows users to share files of any type, but there is still a 16 MB size limit.
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Platforms:
Android, iOS, Web, Mac, Windows, Windows Phone
Publisher:
WhatsApp Inc.
File Size:
100 MB
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2.3.3 or above
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TextSecure
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Strong encryption
Uses Curve25519, AES-256, and HMAC-SHA256. The security of these algorithms has been tested over many years of use in hundreds of different applications. Messages sent via TextSecure are end-to-end encrypted, which means that they can only be read by your intended recipients. We make it easy for you to verify that you are communicating with the right people and that no MITM attack has occurred. The keys that are used to encrypt your messages are stored on your device alone, and they are protected by an additional layer of encryption if you have a passphrase enabled.
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No data messaging
TextSecure can send SMS and MMS messages only. It can't send data messages.
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Free and open source
TextSecure is free and open source, enabling anyone to verify its security by auditing the code. TextSecure is the only private messenger that uses open source peer-reviewed cryptographic protocols to keep your messages safe.
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Not available on tablets
TextSecure is currently not compatible with tablets. Support for tablets is promised in the future.
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Passed EFF's security review
To pass EFF's security review TextSecure had to encrypt data in transit, the encryption had to be end-to-end, the app needed to provide forward secrecy, app's source code has to be open to independent review, users have to be able to verify contact's identities even with the service provider compromised, app's cryptographic design has to be well documented and app's source code has to have been audited in the last 12 months.
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Handcent Next SMS
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Can split a group text
Splitting a group text is a great option, so that follow-up can be personal and not everyone sees every response.
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Name is confusing
In your app drawer you'll see "Next SMS" but in Google Play "Handcent" is the first word of the app. That might confuse some people.
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Missed notification reminders
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Texting from a PC, Mac or tablet requires extra work
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Can text from a PC, Mac or tablet
Texting from another device allows one to not pick up one's phone every minute.
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Customizable appearance
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Hike
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Lots of great features
It contains a wallet for money transfer, news update & sports update feature.
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Security of user information
First of all, this is closed source software. It also lacks-end-to-end encryption. In today's time, irrespective of every other feature, encryption is the most important one. Because without it, rest of the features become risky to use and thus meaningless.
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Without data media sharing option within 100m
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Great sticker system
A very fast sticker suggestion based on key words typed. This helps to send relevant stickers quickly. Also when we press upon a sticker it opens a quick reply sticker option.
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Night-mode
Hike has an app theme & auto night mode(8pm-6am) inside to reduce strain on eye while texting at night.
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Has a timeline
It has a timeline(photo + text), which is similar to BBM.
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Photo editing feature
It has a selfie edit feature like Instagram, helps with editing selfies for profile photos & photo statuses.
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ChatSecure + Orbot
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Passed EFF's security review
To pass EFF's security review ChatSecure had to encrypt data in transit, the encryption had to be end-to-end, the app needed to provide forward secrecy, app's source code has to be open to independent review, users have to be able to verify contact's identities even with the service provider compromised, app's cryptographic design has to be well documented and app's source code has to have been audited in the last 12 months.
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Free and open source
ChatSecure is free and open source, enabling anyone to verify its security by auditing the code.
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Works with popular chat services across mobile and PC
ChatSecure works with Google Hangouts, Facebook messaging, Jabber and other popular messaging service, making for a convenient way to use secure chatting.
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Silent Text
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Encrypted message attachments
Files can be attached to messages that will also be encrypted.
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Expensive
While the app itself is free, to use it a subscription is required with prices starting at $9.95/mo.
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Passed EFF's security review
To pass EFF's security review Silent Text had to encrypt data in transit, the encryption had to be end-to-end, the app needed to provide forward secrecy, app's source code has to be open to independent review, users have to be able to verify contact's identities even with the service provider compromised, app's cryptographic design has to be well documented and app's source code has to have been audited in the last 12 months.
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Messages can be set to self-destruct
Messages on both senders and receivers phones can be set to delete after a set period of time.
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Encrypted locationsharing
It's possible to geotag messages to share location.
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InTouch Messenger
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Filesharing support
Allows sharing any kind of file over the Internet.
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Not a lot of people are using the app
The app has just 35 reviews on the Play store.
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Multiple real-time locationsharing features
The app allow shaking the phone to discover nearby people interested in starting a conversation. The app also allows constantly sharing your location with contacts for a set amount of time.
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P2P video
The app has peer to peer video chat.
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Platforms:
Android / iOS / WP
Publisher:
Alpha Touch
File Size:
6.6M
Required Android Version:
4.0 and up
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Vine Messages
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Can communicate outside of Vine
You can send messages to people outside of Vine.
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Can't share images or videos from camera roll
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Video tools
Vine can capture a video for you and has a grid to help line up shots.
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No group messaging
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Video messages
Videos can be up to six seconds long.
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Platforms:
Android / iOS / WP
Publisher:
Vine Labs
File Size:
Varies with device
Required Android Version:
Varies with device
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qTox
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Avatars and emoji
Can you even call it chatting now without emoji to inject context for potentially ambiguous statements? Avatars are great too for keeping track of who you're talking to since usernames are inscrutable hashes.
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audio and video chat is not stable
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Voice chat
Switching to voice chat is simple, though often fairly sensitive to network congestion with struggles to regain high-bitrates/audio clarity afterwards.
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File transfers
Sharing files is done between clients with the same encryption used for messages without any perceptible loss of speed.
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Group chats
Chatting with a group of people is no more complicated than the one-on-one conversations, without any need to re-join a "room" everytime you open the client as is done on IRC.
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Large variety of install packages
Releases for Linux distributions include native binary packages for Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE and Ubuntu. Also available are Flatpaks and AppImages as well as tarballs, not to mention the more ubiquitous EXE and DMG files catering to Windows and MacOS users, respectively.
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Cross-platform
Windows, macOS, Linux.
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Platforms:
Windows, MacOS, Linux
File Size:
7-69MB
End-to-end encryption:
Yes
Groups:
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Taptalk
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Lacks advanced functionality that could get in the way of sharing
Taptalk lacks any additional features and choices that could take away from sending a photo as fast as possible. There's no preview screen that asks to reconfirm sending a message or choosing a filter. As soon as the photo or video is taken, it's sent.
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No groups
Taptalk only allows one-to-one communications.
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Offers a very quick way of sharing photos and videos
Tap a contact to take a picture, tap and hold a contact to record video. Tapping the screen will allow you to add text to photos and videos just taken. The whole interface consists of a single screen.
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One-to-one conversations increase chance of feedback
Limiting conversations to only two parties increases the likelihood of getting a response.
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Platforms:
Android / iOS
Publisher:
Wit Dot Media Inc
File Size:
5.9M
Required Android Version:
4.0.3 and up
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GroupMe
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Reads receipts
GroupMe has a built in function to read receipts.
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Drains battery fast
GroupMe, in order to have a constant connection which allows for notifications drains the battery of a device quickly, which is not ideal for a messaging app that one needs on time notifications from.
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Great web client
GroupMe has an excellent web client that can be used to send and receive messages and manage groups from the desktop.
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IFTTT Integration
Allows sending messages from web services via IFTTT.
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Integrated calendar
It's possible to add location and time with reminders directly in the GroupMe app.
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Makes it easy to silence 1 or all groups
GroupMe has settings that allow muting a single group or turn off all GroupMe notifications from within the app.
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Does not require everyone in the group to have a smartphone
GroupMe can set up a custom phone number which allows people without the App to send and receive messages. This makes it easy to add anyone to messaging.
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Platforms:
Android iOS WP
Publisher:
groupme
File Size:
Varies with device
Required Android Version:
Varies with device
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Pulse SMS
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No RCS support
But only Messages has that.
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Multi-platform/Unified Messaging
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Inconsistent and intermittently unreliable syncing with web app.
Forgets password periodically - dev insists that it doesn't do this - but it does. Despite syncing via cloud there is no backup option.
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Open-source
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The web and pc clients haven't been updated in almost a year. No support for gifs in the web or pc clients. Sometimes the web and pc clients are unable to login or do not sync messages.
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Per-Conversation Customization
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Lacks support for UWP on Windows 10
UWP apps aren't hard to build - Luke K could bring his app to the Windows Store easily and make a TON of people happy at work.
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One-time fee
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Good Material Design UI
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Encrypted messaging content on devices
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You can use the iOS app as long as you know how to sideload it
It is on GitHub and there's a way to sideload it with Cydia impactor and appsigner.io
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QKSMS
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Allows responding to SMS without opening the app
When a new sms is received, a window will pop up that has the message and allows answering it from there, without having to open the app. It can be dismissed by tapping anywhere else on the screen.
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Last update was 2021
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Per-conversation notification settings
Users can set different notification settings per user as an easy way to know who is messaging without having to look at the actual message.
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Buggy
There are little annoyances here and there, from dark theme problems making text unreadable to crashing and missing notifications.
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Easily communicate with groups
Users can communicate with large groups at the same time due to the included group messaging feature. This is convenient when trying to synchronize with friends or colleagues.
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Lacks features compared to other offerings
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Very active developer who listens to the community
While QKSMS is one of the younger apps, the developer is quickly adding features/fixing bugs.
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Free
The app is available for free with an optional donation IAP that ranges from $1-$10.
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Beautiful design
Responsive, highly customizable Material Design interface makes for a native looking app that fits in well with Google's UI design guidelines.
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Save yourself from sending out bad messages
Through delayed messaging one can set it up so that a message is not sent automatically. This can help for those times that it may be best to think something over before sending out a rash message.
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Readable in day or night due to themes
There are light and dark themes available within the settings which can be switched depending on how light it is around one when using the app. The dark theme can also help to conserve battery when being used as not as much brightness and hence battery will be used.
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Schedule messages
Users can schedule messages to be sent for later.
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Convenient Android Wear support
Those that own an Android Wear device will be able to set it to receive their messages on the Android Wear device making for convenient notifications and easy messaging through not having to take their phone out.
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Platforms:
Android
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QK Labs
File Size:
5.3M
Required Android Version:
4.0.3 and up
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Mirage
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Includes filters
It's possible to change the look of images and videos via filters.
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Buggy
Messages get lost users have trouble getting their codes to log in and has trouble actually finding the users contacts.
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Groups
It's possible to send messages to multiple people at once. Either by setting up a group or by selecting a bunch of people individually. Groups can also be muted if they get too noisy.
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Messages self-destruct after they've been viewed
Once a message has been viewed, it gets deleted from Snapchat's servers. Thus, unless a person chooses to save the message manually (a notification will be sent if a user decides to take a screenshot), there will be no trace of it left. It enables a bit more consequence-free, in-the-moment kind of communication to occur.
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Generates a contact list
Once the account setup process is complete, Mirage generates a list of people from your contacts that you are most likely interested in sending messages via Mirage.
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Interface designed for getting things done quickly
Tap a contact to take a picture, tap and hold a contact to record video. Tapping the screen will allow you to add text to photos and videos just taken. Swiping the screen changes what camera is used. Swiping from the side allows sending text and voice messages. Voice messages are recorded the same way videos are by tapping and holding on a contact just from a different view.
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Platforms:
Android / iOS
Publisher:
mobli
File Size:
7.7M
Required Android Version:
4.0 and up
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Threema
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Registration without phone number
Registration is handled by random generated IDs. No phone number needed.
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Not free
Unlike many other options Threema is not free as it costs $1.99 for the app.
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Encrypted communication
Provides complete end-to-end encryption.
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Single device only
You cannot use multiple devices to send messages. However, it does have message mirroring on a web client.
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Company behind Threema is based in Switzerland
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No cloud sync
E2E encryption means no cloud syncing of messages.
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Servers in Switzerland
Privacy laws protect the data Threema has.
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Supports encrypted group chats
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Provides a web client
You can control and message with friends via Threema Web, the official web client for Threema.
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Ability to send pics and videos
Threema supports sending media messages such as video, pics and even voice messages.
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Group chat polls
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Allows verification of contacts identity via QR Code
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Platforms:
Android / iOS / WP
Publisher:
Threema GmbH
File Size:
15M
Required Android Version:
4.0 and up
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Doesn't support most messaging apps
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Does what it's supposed to do, without bloatware
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Disa doesn't follow the Google Design Guidelines
Hamburger Menu/Navigation Drawer (Side Menu): https://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/navigation-drawer.html#navigation-drawer-content No Animations: https://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/meaningful-transitions.html https://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/delightful-details.html Empty Pages/States: https://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/empty-states.html# Maybe a Launch screen?: https://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/launch-screens.html#launch-screens-branded-launch
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Open source plugin API
Everyone can develop their own plug-ins.
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Does not support Google SMS
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Easy to use
Disa is very easy to use and has an open source API, so many new services will be added soon.
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Closed source
Disa is closed source, so the development speed is capped of their team, no external developer can help or add features that are not on the route of the team.
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Customizable notifications
Ability to set different notification sound/vibration/led based on the plugin.
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Doesn't support WhatsApp at the moment
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Unified conversations
Ability to merge conversations from the same contact on different services.
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Attaching pictures suddenly failed; no working solution.
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Friendly developers and generally good G+ community
Fast, decent replies to questions, even if they've been asked before.
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Smaller development team leading somewhat slow implementation of requested features
Though the main development (framework, etc) is moving along fine, things like quick reply and sending multiple images at once should've been in quicker.
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Many requested features
The developer team does actually listen to the community and adds requested features.
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Constantly asks to re-authenticate WhatsApp
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Pushbullet support
Disa works great with Pushbullet, allowing you to answer from your PC.
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Doesn't let you customize notifications per conversation or contact
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Many languages
Help and support in many languages.
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Disa takes privacy much more serious
Currently, the Disa team knows less about you than the website you're currently visiting.
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Great material design
With color-changing design with custom colors for each service.
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Platforms:
Android
Publisher:
Disa.im
File Size:
34M
Required Android Version:
4.0 and up
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