Recently I have been looking for a pretty simple privacy friendly messaging app.I tried element but I dont like the way it works and how it leaks metadata so im using briar currently. Im planning to switch to signal once i have a phone number but currently i dont.Any tips?
Threema costs about 4€ and works without a phone number. It’s currently not open source but they are planning to go open source. They’re based in Switzerland. I don’t know enough about meta data leaking but at least they’re aware of it.
Just checking : https://threema.ch/en/faq/source_code Yes, to ensure full transparency, the Threema apps are open source. Thanks to reproducible builds, there’s also a way to verify that the published code (of the Android app, for the time being) actually corresponds to the apps available for download in the app stores.
Oh that’s good. Last time I remembered/checked they weren’t but good that they’re now.
threema client is open source