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24 alternatives to Enigma Chat
A minimalist, locked-down one-to-one chat app.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Enigma Chat launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Typing Mind▲826Chat with AI using your API keys. Pay only for what you use. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other LLMs supported. The best chat LLM frontend UI for all AI models.
2023 · typingmind.com · its alternatives →
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Free and open source encrypted chat for iOS.
2017 · chatsecure.org · its alternatives →
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Enigma▲224Discover and report UFO/UAP sightings around the world
2025 · enigmalabs.io · its alternatives →
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Tick Chat▲92Chat via nearby persons. Instant, Secure, Anonymously. 🕶
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chat anonymously with friends & strangers
2015 · antiland.com · its alternatives →
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A secure chat button for every profile
2017 · book.keybase.io · its alternatives →
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- 126M
2014 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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safer.chat▲61Group end-to-end encrypted chat that respects your privacy
2019 · safer.chat · its alternatives →
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KoiHi▲97Make your own WhatsApp with E2EE self hosted chat solution
2023 · koihi.com · its alternatives →
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Layers▲61The private network strangers literally can't reach you on.
Apr 2026 · layers-app.com · its alternatives →
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Reloaded with xsalsa20 and ready to help people escape mass surveillance. - enigma-reloaded/enigma-reloaded
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chot.xyz▲71Privacy focused chat that doesn't store your messages
2019 · chot.xyz · its alternatives →
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Privacy-first messenger for discreet conversations
Jun 2026 · disguise.chat · its alternatives →
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A secure chatting application.
2016 · adam-hanna.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m the founder of Pangea. We’ve built a developer platform where you can easily add security to your code through a simple set of APIs - features like authentication, secrets management, audit logging, redaction of PII, restricting embargoed countries, known threat actor intelligence, etc. With the ChatGPT and LLM explosion, we thought of ways to reduce the risk of both the inputs and outputs from these services. Our NextJS sample app adds a security layer on top of ChatGPT with various security services that you can implement quickly. It’s basically a front end to the OpenAI API…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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