Signal - Private Messenger

And it works fine. You can’t take that for granted with privacy respecting apps.

Just add an in-app purchase and get rid of that annoying banner.

This app doesn’t want to know anything about you so only use it if you don’t want problems.

This THE BEST private messenger ever - forget Telegram, Wickr etc. The technological design of Signal is built to be 100% private and secure from the very beginning with full data encryption, incl. your metadata and without the need to switch to some special “secure chat” mode (Signal set up the global encryption). It also strips the links you send from their trackers too (which other app does this?). Moreover, your messages are delivered instantly (on Telegram you have to wait for minutes to hours). The quality of audio and video calls is perfect. And there are no limitations on your attachment sizes etc. too. Your chats are NOT stored anywhere else than on your physical phone. Hence spying and profiling is impossible and it’s not a matter of trust but rather of technical design (do not stupidly trust WhatsApp, Messenger, Viber etc. - check out who owns them). Signal is owned by a foundation (which cannot be put up for sale) and not by a commercial giant who will spy on you and sell your data to advertisers and governmental agencies. Recently they have added a lot of additional customisation options so you won’t miss the fun part of chatting (although I personally prefer minimalism which you get here). It’s focused on 1-1 or group chats - that’s it and you don’t need more. If you like Instagram like stories, you have them here too btw. Do you need anything more to communicate with your friends, family and business partners? I don’t think so…

How could a chat app be over 120 MB? Also, why the app stops working if you don’t update it in a while. Consider an older phone or one with a small storage that just can’t update. Why do you break the app on purpose?

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This whole Twilio incident stresses even more that you got to remove this requirement. You claim that you are protecting our privacy but you still want our phone numbers. WTF! Come on!

why there is no edit of the message

Beautiful app. We are so fortunate:)

Before thinking of multiple messages forward, blah blah, please implement editing of message, which is basic feature, one of the top 3 every such messenger MUST have from version 0.