SimpleX chat Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• What are your favorite End-to-End encrypted tools for online privacy?

  For messaging I'm currently on Olvid (E2E with physical key exchange) but since it still use their servers, I'm currently testing SimpleX where I can host my own servers. Source: 5 months ago

• Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

  Notice how SimpleX (https://simplex.chat/) has no push notifications by default because of this issue. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• SMS Security and Privacy Gaps

  I've been using SimpleX [0] with a couple of friends recently. It appears to work as advertised. [0] https://simplex.chat. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• U.K. Abandons, for Now, Legislation That Would Have Banned End-to-End Encryption

  If you have a mobile phone number, the domestic intelligence agency knows exactly where you are at all times and any LEO (without a warrant) can also find you. In addition, there have been numerous CCC presentations showing how insecure the global (excluding US) and (separately) US carriers are guilty of promiscuous metadata trafficking ($$) and insecure SS7 setups. As a consequence, for low $, you can go to any... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism

  People should switch to SimpleX instead: https://simplex.chat. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• v5.2 with delivery receipts is fully released – see the post about it and about the future of the groups, and join our event next week!

  The app is available in all channels via the links on the website or via [GitHub release] – the main F-Droid repo is coming soon. Source: 9 months ago

• SimpleX Chat – fully open-source private messenger without any user IDs (not even random numbers) – v5.2 released with message delivery receipts ✅ and lots of other improvements.

  Install the apps via the links on GitHub or website. Source: 9 months ago

• Protons "Best WhatsApp alternatives for privacy" blog post

  Two that come to mind are... SimpleX https://simplex.chat/. Source: 10 months ago

• Best offline WhatsApp replacement?

  Https://simplex.chat/ might be an option, although you will have to build and run your own server, and tweak the client to use it. Source: 10 months ago

• My top 5 Free Underrated privacy tools (need more for a video!)

  SimpleX - Free encrypted instant messenger. Works on all platforms but PC still needs an app. Probably one of the most private there is. Source: 11 months ago

• ELI5: Encrypted messaging is seen as extremely valuable for privacy, what methods does one take to go through unencrypted messages?

  There are various even stronger forms of privacy that also attempt to hide even the metadata of who the sender/receiver are, like Signal's sealed sender system or SimpleX chat, but those are not yet dominant. Source: 11 months ago

• ⟳ 4 apps added, 28 updated at f-droid.org

  SimpleX Chat (version 5.1.1): SimpleX Chat - e2e encrypted messenger without any user IDs - private by design! Source: 11 months ago

• Messaging on lightning ⚡

  What about something like https://simplex.chat/? Source: 11 months ago

• SimpleX Chat – the private messenger without any user IDs (not even random numbers) – v5.1 released with message reactions 🚀 and self-destruct passcode

  Please review the whitepaper and / or website home page. I also wrote this post some time ago about why I believe that using pairwise identifiers should be a minimal requirement for a communication system to be considered private. Source: 11 months ago

• I made a ChatGPT front-end for LocalAI's self hosted model backend!

  Could you / would you be interested to help us integrating some conversational capability into a bot for SimpleX Chat? https://simplex.chat (disclaimer: I'm the founder). Source: about 1 year ago

• ⟳ 1 apps added, 42 updated at f-droid.org

  SimpleX Chat (version 5.0): SimpleX Chat - e2e encrypted messenger without any user IDs - private by design! Source: about 1 year ago

• Google again accused of destroying evidence in Android case

  Https://simplex.chat/ - private, encrypted messaging/voice/video app (still kind beta-ish, but rapidly developing) - /r/SimpleXChat. Source: about 1 year ago

• Signal will exit the UK rather than comply with onerous new restrictions on end-to-end encryption

  Briar isn’t available on iOS so that rules out a huge proportion of the market. Personally I’d go with SimpleX. Source: about 1 year ago

• What is a recommended privacy chat app?

  SimpleX Chat is the newest tech on the market. I think it's also the shiniest. I will be watching closely to see how the project develops. Source: about 1 year ago

• ⟳ 0 apps added, 54 updated at f-droid.org

  SimpleX Chat (version 4.5.3): SimpleX Chat - e2e encrypted messenger without any user IDs - private by design! Source: about 1 year ago

• SimpleX File Transfer Protocol (aka XFTP) – a new open-source protocol for sending large files efficiently, privately and securely – beta versions of XFTP relays and CLI are released!

  XFTP is a new file transfer protocol focussed on meta-data protection - it is based on the same principles as SimpleX Messaging Protocol used in SimpleX Chat apps:. Source: about 1 year ago