Silence
PROJECT MOVED: https://git.silence.dev/Silence/Silence-Android/ (GitHub is just a mirror.) (by SilenceIM)
Conversations
Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android (by iNPUTmice)
| Silence | Conversations | |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 58 | |
| 1,110 | 4,213 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 3 years ago | 9 months ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
Silence
Posts with mentions or reviews of Silence.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-05.
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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:
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Silence and Conversations you can also consider the following projects:
Partisan-SMS - Encrypted SMS messenger for Android
blabber.im - blabber.im basiert auf Conversations und ist ein Open Source XMPP/Jabber Messenger für Android 4.1+
phosh-antispam
Xabber - Open-source XMPP client for Android
cifs-documents-provider - CIFS Documents Provider
Smack - A modular and portable open source XMPP client library written in Java for Android and Java (SE) VMs
ad-silence - Mute Ad/promotions from Accuradio, Spotify, Soundcloud, TIDAL & Pandora Android. Minimal, extensible & lightweight under 150kb.
Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service
anonaddy-android
yaxim - yaxim - a lean XMPP/Jabber client for Android
termux-gui - A plugin for Termux to use native Android GUI components from CLI applications. [Moved to: https://github.com/termux/termux-gui]
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
Silence vs Partisan-SMS
Conversations vs blabber.im
Silence vs phosh-antispam
Conversations vs Xabber
Silence vs cifs-documents-provider
Conversations vs Smack
Silence vs ad-silence
Conversations vs Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service
Silence vs anonaddy-android
Conversations vs yaxim
Silence vs termux-gui
Conversations vs jami-cli