artimanFeb 13

[SOLVED] What is the best private messaging app?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/privacy/p/1774168/what-is-the-best-private-messaging-app

Hello i am looking for a private messaging app to chat with my family, What would be the best option to use I want it to be decentralized, user-friendly and have good and secure E2EE, must be free as in beer and open source, I have used matrix and didn’t like it because of encryption issues, I am currently using XMPP but I am having issues with image uploads and image downloads, I am considering deltachat and it seems to be the best option, if anyone has any suggestion that is better i would appreciate it.
EDIT: i tried out all the recommndations and simplex was both the best for me and my family liked the UX more than the other ones

What is the best private messaging app?

Hello i am looking for a private messaging app to chat with my family, What would be the best option to use I want it to be decentralized, user-fri…

Show threadmydude
I tried em all, currently using session.
Feb 13 at 4:53pmWeb
Show threadartimanFeb 13
Thanks i will look into it, I saw a lot more people recommend deltachat, if you used deltachat what made session better over it and the other messengers?
Show threadmydudeFeb 13
At the time it felt incomplete, my guess is it’s a lot better now.
Show threadXLEFeb 13

How’d you settle on that one?

  • Its funding method is its own, proprietary cryptocurrency
  • It still has not, to my knowledge, added PFS back to its encryption after they removed it
  • Their software is forks of other people’s stuff, specifically Signal and Monero
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Show threadartyomFeb 13

They added PFS recently

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/12/03/session-messenger-adds-pfs-pqe-and-other-improvements/

Session messenger adds PFS, PQE, and other improvements

Session, a popular encrypted messenger app in the privacy community, today announced several major updates, including one correcting one of their most common and serious criticisms.

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Show threadXLEFeb 13

They announced they’re working on it recently, but it’s not released yet.

Today, we are announcing Session Protocol V2, a proposed upgrade to the Session Protocol…

Their entire announcement uses future tense for V2 and present tense for V1