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About Cwtch
Cwtch runs each conversation over Tor onion services so there is no account, no phone number and no central server that learns who talks to whom. Groups use servers that participants can run themselves and that cannot read the messages they relay.
Strengths
- Designed specifically to resist metadata collection, not just message reading
- No account, phone number or email required
Limitations
- Tor routing makes delivery slow and requires both parties online
- Small project with a limited feature set
Details
- Pricing
- FreeThe open-source application is available without a license fee.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Open Privacy Research Society
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Metadata-resistant messaging over Tor with no central servers
- Categories
- Messaging
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus Resource Hub (Privacy); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.