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Off-the-Record Messaging VS Olvid

Compare Off-the-Record Messaging VS Olvid and see what are their differences

Off-the-Record Messaging logo Off-the-Record Messaging

Off-the-Record Messaging

Olvid logo Olvid

The most secure messaging app in the world.
  • Off-the-Record Messaging Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-09-30
  • Olvid Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-03-05

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Off-the-Record Messaging and Olvid)
Group Chat & Notifications
Communication
20 20%
80% 80
Instant Messaging
30 30%
70% 70
Social & Communications
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Off-the-Record Messaging seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 10 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Off-the-Record Messaging mentions (10)

  • What’s does everyone use for messaging?
    Get Pidgin, download the (OTR, Off the Record)[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/] extension so you will have no data on your device stored. Source: 11 months ago
  • My way is definitely not overthinked but there should be any more easiest/secure ways?
    To understand more about it read here: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client
    A: Google & Facebook shut down their XMPP gateways to force you into their apps. All the sudden you use Pidgin to communicate with people on google & facebook. At least that was my experience. I used to use Pidgin with OTR[0] for e2e encrypted chat over google & facebook. It was pretty fantastic, messages were inaccessible to facebook and google even with a court order so I didn't need to trust them. Also used... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
  • EU law threatening 'commercially painful changes' for tech out tonight
    Why so pesimisstic. In a sane world (and probably in the world where they want to say "just use WhatsApp, we're better!") they'll say "This user is using an unencrypted app. [Paragraph about how all your nudes and contents of bank account will be stolen]. Are you sure you want to send them a message?". In a better world, something like https://otr.cypherpunks.ca could be implemented, where the user has control of... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
  • IRCv3 spec round-up 2021
    OTR is the de-facto standard for encryption on IRC. It's also quite old, so it predates IRCv3. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
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Olvid mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Olvid yet. Tracking of Olvid recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

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20-Things - 20-Things is a social media / link aggregator

Signal - Fast, simple & secure messaging. Privacy that fits in your pocket.

Element.io - Secure messaging app with strong end-to-end encryption, advanced group chat privacy settings, secure video calls for teams, encrypted communication using Matrix open network. Riot.im is now Element.

Molly (Signal fork) - Molly is an independent Signal fork for Android