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Night Drop vs Cwtch: catalog facts
Night Drop	Cwtch
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free The open-source application is available without a license fee.
Android	Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
No phone number, email or account; identity is a local keypair End-to-end encrypted messages sent peer to peer over Tor	Designed specifically to resist metadata collection, not just message reading No account, phone number or email required
One-to-one chats only, no groups New project with a small user base	Tor routing makes delivery slow and requires both parties online Small project with a limited feature set
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0-or-later	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is 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 September 22, 2026

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