Hail vs session-desktop

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Hail		session-desktop
	Project
8	Mentions	301
1,817	Stars	1,397
-	Growth	1.5%
9.4	Activity	0.0
1 day ago	Latest Commit	about 20 hours ago
Kotlin	Language	TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

Hail

Posts with mentions or reviews of Hail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-24.

Unable to disable Seedvault
1 project | /r/LineageOS | 10 Jun 2023
Proven methods to maximize battery life and battery lifespan?
1 project | /r/LineageOS | 18 May 2023

I use Brevent and Hail to improve battery life and performance.
Alternative of Cache cleaner by Maxim Paymushkin
1 project | /r/fdroid | 25 Mar 2023

Hail my daily driver <3
不想被嗨皮查到关注了福利姬的话，用这个app就行
1 project | /r/Youmo | 29 Nov 2022
What apps help you to make the most out of your android device?
12 projects | /r/androidapps | 24 Jul 2022

Hail : Use it to disable apps using Shizuku-Disable. Disable apps will not show in launcher.
Any app out there that can freeze and defrost self installed apps on a whim without root? (
2 projects | /r/androidapps | 19 May 2022

It's FOSS. Feel free to have a look https://github.com/aistra0528/Hail/blob/master/README_EN.md
⟳ 7 apps added, 60 updated at f-droid.org
15 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 19 Feb 2022

Hail: None
⟳ 4 apps added, 9 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
6 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 8 Feb 2022

Hail: Freeze Android apps

session-desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of session-desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-29.

How does SonoBus compares to Signal with regards to encryption, quality and latency?
2 projects | /r/opsec | 29 Jun 2023

https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios
"message deleted" prompt still appears after months
1 project | /r/Session_Messenger | 17 Jun 2023

This is the correct place to raise feature requests and bug reports: https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/issues
session wont connect. is anyone else having issues?
1 project | /r/Session_Messenger | 19 Apr 2023

We're at 1.10.8. Please update: https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/releases
Multiple accounts on session?
1 project | /r/Session_Messenger | 31 Dec 2022
Signal impersonation risk?
2 projects | /r/privacy | 27 Oct 2022

Session's reasoning seems much more... cagey. Telling people to recreate their identities themselves sounds a little like the Threema stopgap solution, but it's much sloppier (I can't imagine end users WANT to recreate their account and communicate this to all their contacts via a third party). They're talking about implementing this eventually, but the ticket for doing so was closed right after saying this.
Session: ISP can tell when you use the messenger, right?
2 projects | /r/privacy | 19 Oct 2022
⟳ 6 apps added, 93 updated at f-droid.org
13 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 29 Sep 2022

Session F-Droid (version 1.15.4): Encrypted private messenger
PGP ile elinizde bulundurduğunuz gizli lozan anlaşmalarını (dosya veya metin, ikisi de olur) şifreleyebilirsiniz. Resimdeki dosyanın şifresinin kırılabilmesi için en az 20 yıl gerekiyor (bu da en az, 20 yıldan fazla bile olabilir) Bu programın ne işe yarayabileceğini yoruma attım. (Kaydırgaçlı post)
1 project | /r/KGBTR | 29 Sep 2022
Iranian here responding to the signal post: clarifying the internet situation in Iran
2 projects | /r/privacy | 24 Sep 2022
Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal
5 projects | /r/linux | 23 Sep 2022

Or Briar, Session, Tox, Element/Matrix, Jami...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Hail and session-desktop you can also consider the following projects:

Shizuku - Using system APIs directly with adb/root privileges from normal apps through a Java process started with app_process.

Tox - The future of online communications.

AusweisApp - Der offizielle eID-Client des Bundes.

qTox - qTox is a chat, voice, video, and file transfer IM client using the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol.

gsy_github_app_flutter - Flutter 超完整的开源项目，功能丰富，适合学习和日常使用。GSYGithubApp系列的优势：我们目前已经拥有Flutter、Weex、ReactNative、kotlin 四个版本。功能齐全，项目框架内技术涉及面广，完成度高，持续维护，配套文章，适合全面学习，对比参考。跨平台的开源Github客户端App，更好的体验，更丰富的功能，旨在更好的日常管理和维护个人Github，提供更好更方便的驾车体验Σ(￣。￣ﾉ)ﾉ。同款Weex版本： https://github.com/CarGuo/GSYGithubAppWeex 、同款React Native版本： https://github.com/CarGuo/GSYGithubApp 、原生 kotlin 版本 https://github.com/CarGuo/GSYGithubAppKotlin

jami-cli - Jami client for terminal

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berty - Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network

TSViewer - Simple Android TeamSpeak client which connects every x minutes to get the connected clients and displays them in a notification /quick settings tile and WearOS complication right on your watchface.

Signal-Desktop - A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

FsClock-Android - Fullscreen Clock Screensaver for Android Smartphone, Tablet & TV

Speek - Privacy focused messenger that doesn't trust anyone with your identity, your contact list, or your communications