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Night Drop vs Global Send: catalog facts
Night Drop	Global Send
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under GPL-3.0.
Android	Android
No phone number, email or account; identity is a local keypair End-to-end encrypted messages sent peer to peer over Tor	No account or sign-up required Direct device-to-device connections
One-to-one chats only, no groups New project with a small user base	Still relies on relay servers for address discovery Small, young project
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0-or-later	License: GPL-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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