Partisan-SMS
Silence
| Partisan-SMS | Silence | |
|---|---|---|
| 35 | 15 | |
| 202 | 1,110 | |
| - | 0.2% | |
| 7.8 | 10.0 | |
| 11 months ago | about 3 years ago | |
| Kotlin | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Partisan-SMS
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Silence alternative or updated versions (supporting arm64)
It has very bad broken encryption: https://github.com/wrwrabbit/Partisan-SMS/issues/47
- SMS Removal Megathread
- Signal is dropping SMS support and both QKSMS and Silence are no longer maintained. Is there a good, open source alternative? Preferably that encrypts your texts locally and allows for backups?
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Alternatives to Signal Messenger now that they are dropping SMS support?
The other person has to have the app aswell but https://github.com/wrwrabbit/Partisan-SMS/releases/download/v2.1.4/P-SMS-v2.1.4.apk
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My Obtainium JSON list
P-SMS instead of qksms
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Current FOSS list - let me know what you think!
Partisan-SMS
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SIM Registration = More government surveillance
Silence has not been updated in years and can't handle dual sims. Instead you can try: https://github.com/wrwrabbit/Partisan-SMS but you should get off of SMS.
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Is Qksms still actively maintained ?
Not secure: https://github.com/wrwrabbit/Partisan-SMS/issues/47
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Is there any other SMS app with similar or better UI to QKSMS?
P sms actively maintained fork of qksms....same ui with encryption feature...you have to deal with pop up of encryption key msg everytime you open the app though...dev. issue is already there is turn off encryption feature so hope they will impliment that....
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Matrial you (3) apps you use or know
Simple sms : you can use this as there is no other good app except qksms which is unmaintained and i use P sms deal with pop up of encryption key and waiting for fdroid release...
Silence
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Silence alternative or updated versions (supporting arm64)
I would like to use Silence to encrypt my SMS, but the app isn't updated and doesn't support arm64 (I have a Pixel 7).
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Why do people still use facebook even after the billions of dollars in fines?
LOL, I had in mind a more E2E sms solution. I saw this in Fdroid but have not experimented with it. but it might be the low bar my contacts can accept to stay in touch with me
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what are the alternatives for encrypted sms now?
Maybe https://silence.im/ ? But the latest release was 4 years ago
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Vonage Help!
My first answer was https://silence.im/. However it seems to be semi abandoned and unmaintained.
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Signal alternative?
I have yet to find anything roughly compatable that also seems to be in active development. Slience looks like it but doesnt seem to be really active at all.
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Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts
They are certainly able to do so.
The only tool that I know of that can encrypt SMS messages is Silence. The source code is quite stale.
https://silence.im
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Signal replacement app for SMS on Android?
This will not help unless everyone has silence.im installed. And in that case, why not just ask them to add signal and skip a step?
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Re-Adding SMS Support to Signal
There's also Silence, which is a fork of Signal from back when it used to be TextSecure. It only does SMS.
https://silence.im/
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Are there any messaging apps that don't need Sim
Yes it is. It is also abandoned, last update was 3.5 years ago and it looks like their site has an expired cert. Rip TextSecure
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SIM Registration = More government surveillance
From their website:
What are some alternatives?
QKSMS - The most beautiful SMS messenger for Android
phosh-antispam
Simple-SMS-Messenger - An easy and quick way of managing SMS and MMS messages without ads.
cifs-documents-provider - CIFS Documents Provider
TextSecure - A private messenger for Android.
ad-silence - Mute Ad/promotions from Accuradio, Spotify, Soundcloud, TIDAL & Pandora Android. Minimal, extensible & lightweight under 150kb.
Signal-Android - Fork from a private messenger for Android with extra options added: full backup and (partial, ony text) xml backup of messages. Restore can happen at any time, not only after a fresh install. Import SMS database. Import of (unencrypted) WhatsApp databases. Removed apk expire. Choose between passphrase protection and the Android screenlock. Choice for the backup location (internal or removable storage on Android < 11 (on 11 and higher this is already possible)). Set the maptype in the place picker. Option to treat view-once media as normal media. Option to ignore remote deletion. Choose between FCM or websocket notification delivery.
anonaddy-android
Best-FOSS-Apps-for-Android - Best Open Source apps for extreme online privacy.
termux-gui - A plugin for Termux to use native Android GUI components from CLI applications. [Moved to: https://github.com/termux/termux-gui]
sms-ie - SMS Import / Export is a simple Android app that imports and exports SMS and MMS messages, call logs, and contacts from and to JSON / NDJSON files.
Conversations - Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android