session-desktop
Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger [DEPRECATED SEE README] (by oxen-io)
ricochet
Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging (by ricochet-im)

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session-desktop | ricochet | |
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301 | 14 | |
1,604 | 3,902 | |
0.1% | 0.2% | |
0.0 | 0.0 | |
4 months ago | over 3 years ago | |
TypeScript | C++ | |
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.
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.
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How does SonoBus compares to Signal with regards to encryption, quality and latency?
https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios
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"message deleted" prompt still appears after months
This is the correct place to raise feature requests and bug reports: https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/issues
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session wont connect. is anyone else having issues?
We're at 1.10.8. Please update: https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/releases
- Multiple accounts on session?
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Signal impersonation risk?
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?
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⟳ 6 apps added, 93 updated at f-droid.org
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)
- Iranian here responding to the signal post: clarifying the internet situation in Iran
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Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal
Or Briar, Session, Tox, Element/Matrix, Jami...
ricochet
Posts with mentions or reviews of ricochet.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-07.
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JavaScript Weekly: Top Links for March 7, 2025
ricochet: A peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services.
- Ricochet: Peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services
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Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS
This looks like a much more polished alternative to Ricochet: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet
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Where is there a tutorial for Ricochet Relay?
Ricochet seems dead. It's been five years since its last commit to their git repo, and their website's certificate expired last year. This is probably why you can't find much information.
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The Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World
I think something like Ricochet (if it were still actively maintained) could be a good solution.
https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet
Every user is their own Tor onion service, so you get E2E encryption and no centralized servers. The whole thing hinges on the security of Tor itself which is probably a safe enough bet.
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Ricochet reborn: A user friendly TorChat for everybody available for GNU/Linux and in the Mac Store and Windows Store.
With that being said, if I had just one piece of advice - try to avoid ostentatious phrases like Speek is by far the most secure way to converse or 100% anonymous. Tor itself is not 100% anonymous, so that should immediately make anyone cautious. One of the things that I admired about the original Ricochet was that the developers never made brazen claims about their software. In fact, quite the opposite.
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How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
Check out https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/blob/master/doc/prot.... It is metadata-free. It does not require a centralized server. It uses Tor.
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Documents Shows Just How Much The FBI Can Obtain From Encrypted Communication Services
[1] https://cwtch.im/ [2] https://ricochet.im/
- Darknet chat
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Why don't we have a privacy-compliant peer-to-peer communication platform yet? (something like the bittorrent of messaging and chat and blogs etc)
Abandoned, unmaintained, deprecated or unreleased: Ricochet, TOR Messenger, Cwtch
What are some alternatives?
When comparing session-desktop and ricochet you can also consider the following projects:
qTox - qTox is a chat, voice, video, and file transfer IM client using the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol.
Tox - The future of online communications.
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
ricochet-refresh - Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
Speek - Privacy focused messenger that doesn't trust anyone with your identity, your contact list, or your communications

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