Conversations vs blabber.im

Conversations

Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android (by iNPUTmice)

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blabber.im

blabber.im basiert auf Conversations und ist ein Open Source XMPP/Jabber Messenger für Android 4.1+ (by kriztan)

XMPP instant-messaging Messenger Jabber Android Java Chat

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Conversations		blabber.im
	Project
58	Mentions	1
4,210	Stars	123
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.8
8 months ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
Java	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Conversations

Posts with mentions or reviews of Conversations. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.

Modern XMPP Server
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2023
Android Jabber App
1 project | /r/jabber | 4 May 2023

AFAIK Conversations is one of the best, if not the best. On F-Droid it’s gratis, on Google Play it costs something.
⟳ 1 apps added, 48 updated at f-droid.org
14 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 3 May 2023

Conversations (version 2.12.3): Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device
Quicksy
1 project | /r/fossdroid | 19 Feb 2023

Had no idea Conversations got spun off?
Jabber.org, the original XMPP IM service has migrated to Prosody IM
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2023

Conversations [1] is the best Android XMPP client I know. IIRC they pushed the adoption of OMEMO and implemented it first, before the desktop clients could catch up.
[1] https://conversations.im/
Chat app without undo or delete of messages
1 project | /r/privacy | 19 Jan 2023

Maybe have a look at Briar or good old Jabber (XMPP) with OTR or OMEMO, e.g. implemented in Conversations.
Conversations 2.11.0 released – open-source Jabber/XMPP client for Android
1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 13 Dec 2022
Conversations 2.11.0 released - Opensource Jabber/XMPP client for Android
1 project | /r/xmpp | 13 Dec 2022
⟳ 1 apps added, 23 updated at f-droid.org
8 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 11 Dec 2022

Conversations (version 2.11.0+free): An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobile
A bit of a rant - and, possibly, a Signal alternative
1 project | /r/signal | 12 Nov 2022

blabber.im

Posts with mentions or reviews of blabber.im. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

BLABBER.IM (ANDROID)
1 project | /r/OpenSourceApps | 6 Oct 2021

Source: https://github.com/kriztan/blabber.im moved to https://codeberg.org/kriztan/blabber.im

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Conversations and blabber.im you can also consider the following projects:

Xabber - Open-source XMPP client for Android

Conversations - Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/iNPUTmice/Conversations]

Smack - A modular and portable open source XMPP client library written in Java for Android and Java (SE) VMs

Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service

Openfire - An XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License.

yaxim - yaxim - a lean XMPP/Jabber client for Android

jaxmpp - Java XMPP client library

jami-cli - Jami client for terminal

Synapse - Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.

Prosody IM - IMPORTANT: due to a drive failure, as of 13-Mar-2021, the Mercurial repository had to be re-mirrored, which changed every commit SHA. The old SHAs and trees are backed up in the vault branches. Please migrate to the new branches as soon as you can.

session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger