What is the best secure messenger to use?

What nice app do you guys use for senting ims, calls, video and sharing stuff? Talking about safer versions of Viber and WhatsApp)

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Wire

Great conversations. Built for mobile, tablets, & desktop.

Doney den OudenProduct Designer · Edited
Wire is open source and at least as secure as Signal, but actually usable thanks to its beautiful design and great features. You can send all kinds of file formats, temporary messages, GIFs, pings (think Buzzers from the MSN days), sketches, and audio messages with voice filters. It even had encrypted video calls before Signal. The app is available for all major platforms, including the web, and syncs messages between devices. You can sign up without a phone number, and they release updates every 2 weeks!
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Karthikeyan KCCreator of Swyde and Geekswipe · Written
XMPP > Signal > Wire! The practical choice here would be Wire! Unlike Signal, which is available only on Mobile platforms (sorry, a chrome extension is not that convincing when compared to a standalone desktop client), Wire is cross-platform and it uses a protocol that's based on the Signal protocol. So it's quite easy to request your friends and family to switch to Wire. If you are looking for a cross-platform secure messenger with E2EE and all the familiar features, I recommend Wire. With external independent security audits, open-sourcing their server side codes, Wire is only getting better.
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Advantages of wire over signal, you ask? - sending pics and videos in a group chat doesn't take forever - group chats​ actually work without having to deal with "bad encrypted messages" and weird errors that make my relatives and friends think I'm a tinfoil hat weirdo - development cycle is fast, thanks to a larger number of developers - group calls - the FBI has never gained access to the information on their servers (even though moxie had very little information​ to hand over, I am not a fan of the FBI interfering with the apps I use) I'm not going to make a list of the advantages wire has over telegram, since we'r… See more
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Signal 2.0

Send end-to-end encrypted text, picture, and video messages

sekoSoftware Developer, Sleepy Bug Studio · Written
Signal is the most recommended secure messenger by the security experts. If you are looking for full security, it seems Signal is the way to go.
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Frank SchwarzExec. Producer of The SEO Show · Written
I use this and just be careful of the photo size you share, but so far I haven't been hacked or featured on TMZ.
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Telegram Messenger

Whatsapp-esque messaging app but open, cloudbased, encrypted

Robert K.Student. Filmmaker. Programmer. 🥞😍 · Written
Many features that aren't cluttered, many users, great security.
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NateCEO at Amplifr · Written
Fast and reliable, has calls, group chats, p2p encrypted chats.
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Telegram is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed.
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Tomas JohnsonProduct manager · Written
If you need complete privacy I’d recommend the services that are more focused on security by design. Threema for messages and sharing files (pdf, gif, zip, mp3 etc). Not all are listed here like Symphony http://symphony.com/ for productivity and collaboration or Vipole https://www.vipole.com/ for encrypted video and group calls.
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Thnx for the heads up! I got a look at all 3 of them, quiet nice. Never heard of VIPole thought... Is it a new thing?
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Confide 3.0

Send confidential, screenshot-proof messages, docs & photos

Jared Schafferfounder/product thetribeapp.com · Written
Politicians are using Confide over other secure messaging apps now so that must mean something 🙃
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Jabber (XMPP)

Christopher LeachProgrammer and Student · Written
Has the best encryption and you can run you're own server if you want. Uses OTR (Off the record) messaging to encrypt even more.
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Seald

Keep your conversations secure, everywhere.

Maxime HuberCPO at Seald.io · Written
Maxime Huber made this product
It works on the apps you already use :) It doesn't change your habits !
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Tomas JohnsonProduct manager · Written
got lots of features for enhancing privacy like hidden contacts, invisible mode, and the only one I know with secure group voice calls and video meetings.
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