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Add to SafariWhen comparing SafeSwiss vs Tox, the Slant community recommends Tox for most people. In the question“What are the best cross-platform encrypted messaging apps?” Tox is ranked 7th while SafeSwiss is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose Tox is:
Tox uses military grade encryption and works completely peer-to-peer.
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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 Privacy focused
Tox uses military grade encryption and works completely peer-to-peer.
Pro Free and open source
The code is licensed under GPL (may change in the future) and is available on GitHub.
Pro Multiple front-ends for multiple platforms available
At the moment there is no official Tox client, but a selection of 32 and 64 clients for Windows, OS X, Linux and Android is available.
Cons
Con Feature rich
Safeswiss offers many features many of the others dont.Well worth a look....
Con Early stages of development
Since Tox is relatively new, it has important features missing (like group video) and requires a proper code review before it can be deemed reliable and ready for everyday use.
