Conversations
Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android (by iNPUTmice)
Xabber
Open-source XMPP client for Android (by redsolution)
| Conversations | Xabber | |
|---|---|---|
| 58 | 1 | |
| 4,214 | 1,811 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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
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Android Jabber App
AFAIK Conversations is one of the best, if not the best. On F-Droid it’s gratis, on Google Play it costs something.
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⟳ 1 apps added, 48 updated at f-droid.org
Conversations (version 2.12.3): Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device
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Quicksy
Had no idea Conversations got spun off?
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Jabber.org, the original XMPP IM service has migrated to Prosody IM
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/
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Chat app without undo or delete of messages
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
- Conversations 2.11.0 released - Opensource Jabber/XMPP client for Android
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⟳ 1 apps added, 23 updated at f-droid.org
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
Xabber
Posts with mentions or reviews of Xabber.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-10.
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XMPP: The secure communication protocol that respects privacy
Depending on when you last tried xmpp you might have experienced the OTR hell, which was never really codified 100% and spawned subtle incompatibilities between clients leading to weird and nondescript errors that never got addressed. Nowadays the popular clients support omemo (https://conversations.im/omemo/), which makes encryption just work™ out of the box and without hassle. The only exception to this is xabber, who are apparently afraid of law enforcement destroying their lifes should they implement proper encryption and also feel no need to support it anyways: https://github.com/redsolution/xabber-android/issues/540
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Conversations and Xabber you can also consider the following projects:
yaxim - yaxim - a lean XMPP/Jabber client for Android
blabber.im - blabber.im basiert auf Conversations und ist ein Open Source XMPP/Jabber Messenger für Android 4.1+
Smack - A modular and portable open source XMPP client library written in Java for Android and Java (SE) VMs
Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service