Silence.im Reviews and details

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• Silence alternative or updated versions (supporting arm64)

  I would like to use Silence to encrypt my SMS, but the app isn't updated and doesn't support arm64 (I have a Pixel 7). Source: 11 months ago

• Why do people still use facebook even after the billions of dollars in fines?

  LOL, I had in mind a more E2E sms solution. I saw this in Fdroid but have not experimented with it. But it might be the low bar my contacts can accept to stay in touch with me. Source: 12 months ago

• what are the alternatives for encrypted sms now?

  Maybe https://silence.im/ ? But the latest release was 4 years ago. Source: about 1 year ago

• Vonage Help!

  My first answer was https://silence.im/. However it seems to be semi abandoned and unmaintained. Source: about 1 year ago

• Signal alternative?

  I have yet to find anything roughly compatable that also seems to be in active development. Slience looks like it but doesnt seem to be really active at all. Source: about 1 year ago

• Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts

  They are certainly able to do so. The only tool that I know of that can encrypt SMS messages is Silence. The source code is quite stale. https://silence.im. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Signal replacement app for SMS on Android?

  This will not help unless everyone has silence.im installed. And in that case, why not just ask them to add signal and skip a step? Source: over 1 year ago

• Re-Adding SMS Support to Signal

  There's also Silence, which is a fork of Signal from back when it used to be TextSecure. It only does SMS. https://silence.im/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Are there any messaging apps that don't need Sim

  Yes it is. It is also abandoned, last update was 3.5 years ago and it looks like their site has an expired cert. Rip TextSecure. Source: over 1 year ago

• What app to replace signal when sms will be removed ?

  Silence.im is basically Signal for SMS (you can do encrypted SMS if other people have the app). Source: over 1 year ago

• Signal discontinuing SMS support.

  Silence is a renamed version of SMSSecure, which is a fork of TextSecure, which was later merged with RedPhone to become Signal. Source: over 1 year ago

• replacement needed that supports texting over wifi.

  If you want to encrypt SMS, the only option I know of that works is the Silence protection. That part of SMSSecure. https://silence.im/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Tell HN: I asked Signal motivations for SMS removal

  FYI, https://silence.im/ An open-source signal fork dedicated to SMS encryption. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Tell HN: I asked Signal motivations for SMS removal

  Thanks for mentioning it! My initial response on it being announced in the Signal app was "Oh no, that's terrible!". Followed by "Meh, all software goes to shit eventually. Now it's Signal's turn". I have now been using Silence [0] as my sms app for a day and don't really miss the Signal sms integration anymore. What bugs me more is that the text message export from Signal seems incomplete. Oh well, I will get... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• should I just export now?

  There is Silence, which is an SMS fork of Textsecure. It is on F-Droid, but it is unmaintained. They have a current warrant canary that states it is still secure. https://silence.im/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Signal is testing “stories” feature

  Consider switching to Silence SMS app - https://silence.im/ . It allows you to send plain SMS / MMS to anyone. But if the other party also has Silence app installed, it has a neat feature where it uses Signal's encryption protocol to encrypt and send your SMS / MMS to the other party. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Durov being hypocritic. Send message as channel became subscriber exclusive in Telegram!

  Privacy Focused SMS clients: Silence (https://silence.im). Source: over 1 year ago

• Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)

  Silence is an encrypted SMS app available on the FDroid app store if anyone is looking for an alternative. https://silence.im/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Signal is dropping SMS support soon :/ Besides QKSMS, any good SMS apps out there?

  You can consider Silence as an interesting alternative. It's encrypted and open source. Source: over 1 year ago

• Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)

  > This is an awful decision. [bla bla bla...] ...Just use the Silence fork and be done with it : https://silence.im/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Has the app removed support for SMS?

  I use this. It's a fork of TextSecure which is what Signal used to be before the name changed and they stopped supporting encrypted SMS. Source: over 1 year ago