When comparing SafeSwiss vs Delta Chat, the Slant community recommends Delta Chat for most people. In the question“What are the best cross-platform encrypted messaging apps?” Delta Chat is ranked 5th while SafeSwiss is ranked 19th.
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 No phone number required
Pro Open Source
Pro No registration required
Pro PGP-encrypted via Autocrypt Guideline
Pro Uses well-established protocols
Everyone knows/uses Email.
Pro Distributed architecture
There is no central Delta Chat server.
Pro You can forward a message from one chat to another
Pro You can share a document, a file, an image, an audio even with applications outside Delta Chat
Pro Multi account
Pro Disappearing messages
It has messages that disappear automatically.
Pro Independent video chat
You can use Jitsi Meet or other providers.
Pro You can reply privately
When you are in a group and want to comment privately on a person's sentence, press and hold on the sentence and click on reply privately. The user will be notified with the quoted and commented sentence. If he clicks on the quoted sentence it will take him to the group and to the position where he wrote this sentence.
Pro You can create broadcast lists
It will be present in the next version.
Pro Bots can be created
Without needing to have a space on a server, just a simple PC and an email for the bot.
Pro You can send stickers and animated stickers
Pro You can decide to set a limit for the size of messages that will be downloaded automatically
Pro You can set a ringtone for each chat
Cons
Con Feature rich
Safeswiss offers many features many of the others dont.Well worth a look....
Con Email providers "recipents" per day limitation
Unless you control or run your own email server.