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Growth · July 21, 2026

Ekko – post-quantum E2EE layer for Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web

Hi everyone, I am a big privacy activist and the amount of privacy concerns in the internet with the discussions around European Chat Control, Meta removing e2ee in Instagram and corporations harvesting personal data for AI training is on the rise. The closed source social media companies keep managing and storing our private keys, allowing them to effectively access all of our personal communications.. Many open source alternatives exist, but the problem I kept running into was not a lack of good private messengers. Signal, SimpleX, and other projects already do important work The problem…

Ekko – post-quantum E2EE layer for Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web launched on July 21, 2026 with 10 votes, #1,657 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

Visit useekko.app ↗Alternativestop 7% of July 2026

In plain words

Ekko is a browser extension that adds post-quantum end-to-end encryption to existing messaging platforms like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Telegram Web. Designed for privacy-conscious users concerned about data harvesting and corporate access to communications, it encrypts messages without requiring users to switch to alternative messengers. The extension allows people to maintain their existing social networks while gaining additional encryption security on top of closed-source platforms.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Ekko encrypts messages locally before they travel through the apps people already use, so you can keep conversations private without asking everyone to switch messengers. Join early access.

Your DMs are not as private as you think. Ekko seals them with post-quantum encryption inside Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram and the apps you already use. Claim your handle before someone else does.

Post-quantum encryption, right where you already type. No new messenger, and nobody to talk into switching. Animated demonstration: Ekko seals a one-to-one message on the sender's device and opens it in the recipient's chat. Across all your messengers. In your browser today. In your keyboard next. Keys are generated on your device, sealed by your passphrase. Grab @you , or stay completely anonymous. Your private key never leaves your device. Ekko only publishes the public key people need to reach you. It never uploads the key that opens your messages. The mark sits at the end of the box. It names who it is sealing to, checks their key, and the words leave encrypted. In your browser today,…from useekko.app

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi everyone, I am a big privacy activist and the amount of privacy concerns in the internet with the discussions around European Chat Control, Meta removing e2ee in Instagram and corporations harvesting personal data for AI training is on the rise. The closed source social media companies keep managing and storing…

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