berty VS surge

Compare berty vs surge and see what are their differences.

berty

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

surge

Surge is a p2p filesharing app designed to utilize blockchain technologies to enable 100% anonymous file transfers. Surge is end-to-end encrypted, decentralized and open source. (by rule110-io)
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berty surge
76 2
7,291 411
1.1% 0.5%
8.5 1.7
1 day ago 10 months ago
Go Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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berty

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

surge

Posts with mentions or reviews of surge. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Surge v1.1.0 release
    1 project | /r/SurgeP2P | 19 Oct 2022
    From the GitHub pages (https://github.com/rule110-io/surge) it explains better the app is using a blockchain technology for the anonymous network connections(NKN blockchain network, https://github.com/nknorg, https://nkn.org/), does this mean that every connection get stored permanently in the blockchain and stays anonymous only until it doesn't eventually get cracked? The blockchain features states a novel "Proof-of-relay" feature:
  • getsurge.io P2P via blockchain
    1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 25 Oct 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing berty and surge you can also consider the following projects:

session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger

Torlin - Makes your browsing private using the Tor network.

jami-cli - Jami client for terminal

coyim - coyim - a safe and secure chat client

session-android - A private messenger for Android.

nkn - Official Go implementation of NKN full node.

orbitdb - Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web

mercury-blockchain - blockchain from scratch in Go

ipfs-chat - Real-time P2P messenger using go-ipfs pubsub. TUI. End-to-end encrypted texting & file-sharing. NAT traversal.

cruzbit - A simple decentralized peer-to-peer ledger implementation

Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.

CovenantSQL - A decentralized, trusted, high performance, SQL database with blockchain features