Alternatives to Tinfoil Chat
An onion-routed peer-to-peer messaging system designed for high-assurance security setups. Notes say what changes if you switch.
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Tinfoil Chat
An onion-routed peer-to-peer messaging system designed for high-assurance security setups.
6 alternatives
Most similar to Tinfoil Chat first.
Ricochet Refresh
An anonymous peer-to-peer instant messenger that connects contacts directly over Tor onion services.
Ricochet Refresh offers anonymous peer-to-peer messaging over Tor on desktop, while Tinfoil Chat targets high-assurance setups and also supports the command line.
Night Drop
A one-to-one Android messenger with end-to-end encryption, peer-to-peer delivery over Tor and no accounts.
Briar
Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Tor.
Session
An encrypted messenger with no phone number and no account, routed through an onion network.
Session offers encrypted messaging routed through an onion network on desktop and mobile, while Tinfoil Chat focuses on high-assurance Linux and command-line setups.
Cwtch
Metadata-resistant messaging over Tor with no central servers.
Cwtch provides metadata-resistant messaging over Tor on desktop and Android, while Tinfoil Chat is designed for high-assurance setups on Linux and the command line.
SimpleX Chat
A messenger with no user identifiers at all, not even a random one, so there is no account to correlate.
