Alternatives to Keet
A peer-to-peer chat app for encrypted messages, audio and video calls, and file transfers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Keet
A peer-to-peer chat app for encrypted messages, audio and video calls, and file transfers.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Keet.
Jami
A fully peer-to-peer communication platform with no servers relaying your data and no personal information needed to sign up.
Jami is a GPL-3.0 GNU peer-to-peer platform with messaging, calls and screen sharing, but it has desktop builds only in the listing and relies on your own key backup.
Signal
An end-to-end encrypted messenger for calls and chats on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux, run by a nonprofit.
Signal is open source and run by a nonprofit with encrypted calls and groups, but it relays through servers and requires a phone number to register.
Session
An encrypted messenger with no phone number and no account, routed through an onion network.
Session is open source, needs no phone number, and routes messages through an onion network and service nodes instead of direct peer connections.
SimpleX Chat
A messenger with no user identifiers at all, not even a random one, so there is no account to correlate.
SimpleX Chat is open source with no user identifier at all and relay servers you can self-host, across desktop, mobile and terminal.
Olvid
An end-to-end encrypted messenger that works without a phone number, email address or other personal data.
Olvid is an encrypted messenger needing no phone number or email on desktop and mobile, with unlimited file sharing, but its pricing is not stated.
Threema
Swiss encrypted messenger that works without a phone number or email.
Threema is a paid Swiss messenger with open-source apps and a random ID instead of a phone number, using servers rather than peer-to-peer delivery.
qTox
A desktop client for the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol with chat, calls and file transfer.
qTox is an open-source desktop client for peer-to-peer Tox with chat, calls and file transfer, but offers no mobile apps in the listing.
Briar
Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Tor.
Briar is open-source peer-to-peer messaging over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Tor for Android and Linux, but lacks calls and is in maintenance mode.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Keet as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Berty
An open-source peer-to-peer messenger that works without central servers and can operate offline.
Keet offers peer-to-peer encrypted chat, group video calls and file transfer on desktop and mobile, but it is not open source and relies on a seed phrase.
Chitchatter
A peer-to-peer chat app in the browser that is serverless, decentralized and ephemeral.
Keet is a peer-to-peer app installed on desktop and mobile that adds encrypted group video calls and file transfers, but your identity depends on keeping a 24-word seed phrase.
Keybase
An end-to-end encrypted messaging and file-sharing app for individuals, teams, families and groups.
Keet sends encrypted messages, calls and files directly between peers without a phone number or email, but depends on keeping a 24-word seed phrase.
Quiet
A peer-to-peer team chat app that syncs messages between members' devices over Tor, with no server.
Keet provides peer-to-peer group chat, video calls and broadcast rooms with end-to-end encryption, but it is not open source.
RetroShare
A decentralized, encrypted friend-to-friend network for chat, mail, forums, channels and file sharing.
Keet provides peer-to-peer encrypted chat, calls and file transfers with iOS support, but it is not open source.
Status
A decentralised private messenger combined with a self-custodial crypto wallet and web3 browser.
Keet is a peer-to-peer messenger with calls and file transfers and no phone number, but it is not open source and depends on a seed phrase.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
