SimpleX Chat: secure messenger

Update to my review below. Noticed that if my recipient hasn’t opened the app in a few days, then messages I send her don’t get delivered. So while the privacy and anonymity features of this messaging app are better than Signal or any other such app I’ve seen, it appears to be still a work in progress as not everything works as expected. I hope the devs work out the bugs and soon. Love the concept of no user IDs and no personal information used. No registration. No phone numbers. No email addresses. Multiple profiles. In these regards it’s better than Signal. However, calling needs some work. When calling, would be nice to hear a ringing tone. Would be nice to have option to launch speakerphone while the call is ringing before being picked up. Also, there is a delay of a few seconds after caller picks up before I can hear the caller. The caller is saying “hello” after pickup and I can’t hear them until a few seconds after they pick up. This is with relay calls enabled. Didn’t try with relay disabled. But Signal has no such issue with relay calls enabled. I hope it continues to improve and gains popularity because in concept it’s excellent.

This is the most secure messenger I've encountered. Unbelievable.

While text chatting, the app automatically attached a random photo from my camera roll and sent it to my peer. I never intended to send any attachment, let alone a phot from around 5 months ago that’s deeply buried in my photo collection. To make matters worse, I could not delete or unsend the photo. Also, after being under development for years, the interface looks quite clunky and poorly made. NOT RECOMMENDED.

Будет ли версия под iPad?

I forgot the password and so can’t reset it

It shows that “connetion error “while i add new chat by creating link

It's amazing that such a small team put together such a full featured app. It's a bit unstable with frequent crashes, but luckily this happens while chatting so I just restart the app. If it died in the background I'd miss notifications, which would be a bigger problem.

This app mostly works but audio input selection is broken on iOS. I can’t use my AirPod Pros with it at all. It’s a bummer…. All that privacy and you have to hold a video call to your ear or put it on speakerphone (although even switching to speakerphone is difficult)

Great concept and the basic stuff works for me in a functional sort of way. However, the interface makes navigating through the thread of messages using iOs Voiceover nearly impossible. I have to swipe (navigate to next item) about 10 times to get from one message to the next. I don't know what Voiceover is having to go over since none of it is spoken, but this interface is extremely inefficient, time consuming, and not at all how messaging apps should be. iMessages, Signal, etc, all the messages are right next to each other. Just one swipe from one to the next. Also, the date is spoken too soon after the message. On the outside where your connections are listed, it also takes 3 swipes to get from one to the next when it really only needs one. There are a few unlabeled elements and a lot of things have weird labels. I feel accessibility has not been given a high enough priority. I love, absolutely love what this app is supposed to do, but in the state it's in right now, I can't use it. Thank you for all the work you've done so far and I'm looking forward to future improvements.

I appreciate this solution to messaging but notifications have always been a problem despite having instant notifications enabled, and since iOS 17 introduced sentence autofill texting has been a nightmare on SimpleX. As the keyboard suggests words, instead of waiting for the user to tap on the suggested word the keyboard will just fill it in regardless while you’re typing. This is the only app I’ve had this issue with, hoped it would be fixed after a while, and alas as of 12/12/23 it still persists.