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Session vs Night Drop: catalog facts
Session	Night Drop
Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0, run by the Session Technology Foundation.	Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS	Android
No phone number or email needed; the account is a random ID Onion routing hides your address from recipients and from the network	No phone number, email or account; identity is a local keypair End-to-end encrypted messages sent peer to peer over Tor
Losing your recovery phrase means losing the account with no reset Delivery can be slower than a centralised messenger	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	License: AGPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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