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24 alternatives to End-to-end encryption for Twitter direct messages

So, you want to avoid mass surveillance and don't trust big tech companies either? But you're tied to your existing network of contacts like everyone else? Well now you can send encrypted messages to your contacts over the Twitter direct messaging channel. It's a serverless SPA called Seecret, a Twitter client hosted at https://www.seecret.io Seecret is open source and freely distributable. You can host it anywhere even from your own localhost server. The app is just plain html and javascript, with no server-side processing at all, no tracking, no logging. Steps: 1-Grant Seecret.io…

Seecret is a serverless web application that enables end-to-end encrypted direct messaging over Twitter. Users grant the app permission to access their Twitter account, then exchange encrypted messages with contacts… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. End-to-end encryption for Twitter direct messages launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    This is a text steganography application optimized for use on Twitter, written in Clojure. - dpapathanasiou/tweet-secret

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    True end-to-end encrypted messaging.

    2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Send secrets or files in one click. View once, then gone.

    2025 · seecret.it · its alternatives →

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    Send encrypted documents & messages to anyone

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Send encrypted self-destructing messages wherever you want

    2019 · nachricht.co · its alternatives →

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    Ethereum address book and private chat for all 👦🏻👩🏼🧑🏾👵🏻

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Text friends without Google or Facebook snooping

    2018 · stealthy.im · its alternatives →

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    Secret▲173

    Send a message through a safe, private, and encrypted link

    2017 · getsecret.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    SendIT▲232

    Send crypto using email or social handles

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Send secret messages using Web Crypto API 🤫.

    2024 · webcrypto-private-messages.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    The Social Crypto Payments Bot

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    In-browser encrypted chat (open source)

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Encrypts e-mails, Facebook status updates, tweets (Chrome)

    2014 · shadowcrypt-release.weebly.com · its alternatives →

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    Share secret messages over email and instant messaging

    2020 · gosecret.io · its alternatives →

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    🔏 End-to-End Encrypted Facebook Messenger. Contribute to tomquirk/zuccnet development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Send one-way messages through Slack

    2022 · secretmessage.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Show NFTs on your Twitter profile! 🖼 🐦

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Single-use, 1-1, e2e encrypted messaging, in-browser

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Instant encrypted web chat

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    DotBGE▲83

    Local-first file encryption for iOS, CLI, and agents

    Jun 2026 · dotbge.app · its alternatives →

  24. 24IP

    Hey HN! I made a service to share passwords easy and secure but never promoted it. It's called instapass.io I noticed that people besides my friends and clients actually started to use, so maybe it will be helpful for you too! You share one-time self-destruct message using one time links and I won't even be able to see what you wrote. How does it work? When you generate a message the client-side makes a random password and use that to encrypt the message. The password is appended as an anchor tag which all modern browsers never send to the server. This way, I don't even know what you shared.…

    2019 · its alternatives →

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