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24 alternatives to Signal-Android – A fork of Signal that provides SMS support
Signal was a brilliant app. It can send messages with rich media, host group chats, and even do voice and video calls, all with the peace of mind that comes from a proper secure messaging app. The best part was that you could still send messages to people who don't use Signal. Signal was the messaging app everyone wants - all the benefits of iMessage, without being siloed in one particular ecosystem. Sometime leading up to October of 2022, the folks at the Signal foundation lost the plot. Signal has since dropped support for SMS, and is inexplicably adding "stories" to their personal…
Signal-Android is a modified version of the Signal messaging app that restores SMS messaging support and removes the Stories feature. It allows users to send encrypted messages, share rich media, conduct group chats… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Signal-Android – A fork of Signal that provides SMS support launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Signal 2.0▲140Send end-to-end encrypted text, picture, and video messages
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Get the most popular messaging services, all in a single app. WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, Telegram, and more.
2021 · beeperhq.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’m proud to share that we have built a real 3rd party iMessage client for Android. We did it by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol and encryption system. It's available to download today (no waitlist): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beeper.ima and there's a technical writeup here: https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works. Unlike every other attempt to build an iMessage app for Android (including our first gen app), Beeper Mini does not use a Mac server relay in the cloud. The app connects directly to Apple…
2023 · beeper.com · its alternatives →
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Skype▲531Completely redesigned with GIFs, group video chat, & stories
2017 · teams.live.com · its alternatives →
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Build-it-yourself objects that you control with your voice.
2017 · experiments.withgoogle.com · its alternatives →
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All-new Chat with stickers, audio, video notes and more
2016 · its alternatives →
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Yes/No Messenger▲118The messaging app that cuts the bullsh*t out of texting
2015 · its alternatives →
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Thanks for checking out Babble! You might wonder why this app is even useful and why not just use Signal/PGP. This app's target audience is actually ordinary people in China or similar countries who are under severe government surveillance and censorship, where access to Signal and similar E2EE messaging software is blocked by nationwide firewalls, such as the Great Firewall of China (GFW). Chinese people have been deprived of freedom of speech even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Li Wenliang, who was among the first to notice the spread of the virus and warned his colleagues about it in…
2022 · babble.landrop.app · its alternatives →
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Signal Beacon▲100Team up around hashtags for more retweets, likes & traffic
2019 · pensignal.com · its alternatives →
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Signal▲106Free, worldwide, encrypted phone calls for iPhone
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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