When comparing SafeSwiss vs StealthChat, the Slant community recommends StealthChat for most people. In the question“What are the best cross-platform encrypted messaging apps?” StealthChat is ranked 11th while SafeSwiss is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose StealthChat is:
Messages can be set to self-destruct after a set time.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Great UI UX
Safeswiss offers many customization features some of the others dont offer. If they were to include video calling and VPN Safeswiss could easily become number 1.
Pro Servers are in Switzerland
"Switzerland is not subject to EU and US jurisdiction; it has different and stricter privacy conditions to those of other countries."
Pro Can send self-destructing messages
Messages can be set to self-destruct after a set time.
Pro 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".
Cons
Con Feature rich
Safeswiss offers many features many of the others dont.Well worth a look....
Con Many people have difficulty registering the app
Multiple people have reported not being able to receive the activation code required to register the app.
Con Code is not verified
Con Poor support
Con Lacks group chat
Con Closed source
No way to verify security practices.