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Night Drop vs SimpleX Chat: catalog facts
Night Drop	SimpleX Chat
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the AGPL 3.0. The company is funded by investment and…
Android	Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Command line
No phone number, email or account; identity is a local keypair End-to-end encrypted messages sent peer to peer over Tor	No user identifier of any kind, so conversations cannot be correlated by account Double ratchet encryption with an additional layer for the relay servers
One-to-one chats only, no groups New project with a small user base	Connecting means exchanging a link or QR code in person or elsewhere No contact list means a lost device is a lost set of conversations unless backed up
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0-or-later	License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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