SimpleX Chat

We already wrote some articles on instant messaging apps that respect privacy1.

In this article, we present SimpleX Chat (already to version 5.0, but we have been following the project since some time ago), which has the particularity - as you can read on the official website - to be the first messenger without user IDs. We should point out that Session also does not use identifiers.

SimpleX Chat, founded by Evgeny Poberezkin, is an open-source project under AGPL-3.0 license, started in 2020. Being an open-source project, you can access its GitHub repository to view and verify the code. We believe in and support open-source, considering it as a considerable value. Thus, kudos to Simplex Chat’s developers. The project is well attended and in continuous development, so much so that the current SimpleX Chat v5.0 supports videos and files up to 1GB.

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