Signal-Android VS nheko

Compare Signal-Android vs nheko and see what are their differences.

Signal-Android

Patches to Signal for Android removing dependencies on closed-source Google Mobile Services and Firebase libraries. In branches whose names include "-FOSS". Uses new "foss" or "gms" flavor dimension: build with "./gradlew assemblePlayFossProdRelease". (by tw-hx)
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Signal-Android nheko
43 18
139 1,766
- 2.9%
0.0 9.6
10 days ago 3 days ago
Java C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Signal-Android

Posts with mentions or reviews of Signal-Android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-20.

nheko

Posts with mentions or reviews of nheko. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-31.
  • Shutting down the letsblock.it project and its official instance
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2024
  • PSA: security vulnerability in qBitorrent 4.5.x webUI
    2 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 26 Feb 2023
    Look at this, notice anything different? https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/issues/new/choose
  • This Year in Matrix
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2022
    Nheko has been around for a number of years. Never used it myself though.

    https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko

  • Matrix was worth the effort to self host.
    8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 18 Sep 2022
    Matrix clients hit different than pretty much any other chat client I've use before. Theres multiple clients I've found like nheko, moments, element that are a pleasure to look at and smooth as hell. Even better you can have users use web services like Element Web to sign-up and chat. Its sick.
  • What flatpaks are "official" (i.e., directly from the application's developer)?
    5 projects | /r/linux | 3 May 2022
    The Nheko flatpak is official. Just compare the source to the nightlies we build and upload to our nightly repo.
  • GTK4 Matrix Client
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2022
    Like almost every client out there it has no support for e2ee. I was happy to find https://nheko-reborn.github.io (I'm a KDE user so Qt apps are preferred).
  • Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2022
  • weed rule
    1 project | /r/196 | 24 Mar 2022
    There's also FluffyChat or Nheko if Element is too heavy.
  • Using Files with Browsers, in Reality
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2022
    I probably wouldn't have guessed that `e.dataTransfer.items` gets cleared at the first await (since I'm not a proficient web developer), but I would've been extremely wary of this code in general. Additionally (not tied to async-await but race conditions in general), is `item.getAsFileSystemHandle()` a TOCTTOU vulnerability where the type of an item can change between folders and files and symlinks etc., while this code is running?

    Rust's & vs. &mut system largely eliminates shared state hazards in both threading and asynchronity (&mut is exclusive/unaliased and can't be mutated by other threads or event loop jobs, and & is difficult and unidiomatic to mutate), though it doesn't solve async cancellation errors (https://carllerche.com/2021/06/17/six-ways-to-make-async-rus..., discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27542504), or filesystem TOCTTOU (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/01/20/cve-2022-21658.html as well as user code).

    Qt event loop reentrancy is fun(tm) as well. It looks like a blocking call, but spawns a nested event loop which can do anything (but rarely enough to lull you into a false sense of complacency), resulting in segfaults like https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/issues/656 (workaround at https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/commit/570d00b000bd558..., I didn't look into it). And Qt lacks "easy" await syntax and a framework based on calling red functions (though I didn't look into C++20 coroutines yet, perhaps https://www.qt.io/blog/asynchronous-apis-in-qt-6 or https://github.com/mhogomchungu/tasks or https://blog.blackquill.cc/asynchronous-qtquick-uis-and-thei...?).

  • Introducing Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call!
    5 projects | /r/linux | 5 Mar 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Signal-Android and nheko you can also consider the following projects:

TextSecure - A private messenger for Android.

gomuks - A terminal based Matrix client written in Go.

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

axolotl - A Signal compatible cross plattform client written in Go, Rust and Vuejs

LibreSignal - LibreSignal • The truly private and Google-Free messenger for Android.

weechat-matrix - Weechat Matrix protocol script written in python

telegram-bot-api - Telegram Bot API server

Shitter - Lightweight Android app for Mastodon

org.signal.Signal

libsignal-client-node

dendrotox - Python interface to Tox distributed communications