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Add to SafariWhen comparing Tox vs Bleep, the Slant community recommends Tox for most people. In the question“What is the best cross platform secure P2P chat application?” Tox is ranked 1st while Bleep is ranked 5th. 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 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.
Pro Free and cross-platform
Bleep is available for free on Windows, OS X & Android.
Pro Privacy focused
Bleep uses end-to-end encryption to keep communications private and leaves no metadata on a central server so no-one even knows the communication took place.
Cons
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.
Con Privacy claims can't be validated
Since Bleep is not open source, there is no way to validate product's privacy claims.
Con Alpha state
Bleep is in early stages of development meaning there can be issues and it may be unstable.
