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Global Send vs Night Drop: catalog facts
Global Send	Night Drop
Free Free and open source under GPL-3.0.	Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.
Android	Android
No account or sign-up required Direct device-to-device connections	No phone number, email or account; identity is a local keypair End-to-end encrypted messages sent peer to peer over Tor
Still relies on relay servers for address discovery Small, young project	One-to-one chats only, no groups New project with a small user base
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later	License: AGPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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