{"slug": "cheogram", "name": "Cheogram", "category": "communication", "category_name": "Email and chat", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 3.694, "rising": 3.0, "first": "2026-02-16", "latest": "2026-09-07", "why": "I use Dino on my laptop, and Cheogram on my phone, and the experience has been quite nice and seamless.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I use Dino on my laptop, and Cheogram on my phone, and the experience has been quite nice and seamless.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "cheogram.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://cheogram.com/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Cheogram"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 793602224, "item_id": 49600139, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600139", "by": "NewJazz", "date": "2026-09-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "you should take a look at e.g. Cheogram, Conversations, and Element and consider ways to enhance integration", "excerpt": "Yes I understand your point re: interoperability, and I think you've made a convincing case for RCS. I think in the short term, you should take a look at e.g. Cheogram, Conversations, and Element and consider ways to enhance integration. Address book integration, automatically extending contact do not disturb exceptions, and maybe even dialer integration. In the long term, it would be best to try to guage antitrust r", "context": "", "use_case": "messaging", "switched_from": "", "story": "GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard"}, {"id": 791752513, "item_id": 49484532, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484532", "by": "Zambyte", "date": "2026-08-28", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For voip, I recommend jmp.chat and cheogram.", "excerpt": "For voip, I recommend jmp.chat and cheogram. I've been using it for years now.", "context": "", "use_case": "VoIP calls", "switched_from": "", "story": "Get your Windows license refund"}, {"id": 790795586, "item_id": 49424724, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424724", "by": "abound", "date": "2026-08-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Dino on my laptop, and Cheogram on my phone, and the experience has been quite nice and seamless.", "excerpt": "I recently migrated from Google Voice to jmp.chat, which is a telephony/SMS/etc bridge to XMPP. I use Dino on my laptop, and Cheogram on my phone, and the experience has been quite nice and seamless. Next step is to host my own Prosody server and import my whole Google Voice history.", "context": "", "use_case": "XMPP client on phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["messaging", "voip calling app", "voip calls", "xmpp client on phone"], "compared": [{"slug": "jmp-chat", "name": "jmp.chat", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590512", "title": "GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539872", "title": "I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478340", "title": "Get your Windows license refund", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421536", "title": "Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782570", "title": "Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034801", "title": "Running My Own XMPP Server", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 793602224, "item_id": 49600139, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600139", "by": "NewJazz", "date": "2026-09-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "you should take a look at e.g. Cheogram, Conversations, and Element and consider ways to enhance integration", "excerpt": "Yes I understand your point re: interoperability, and I think you've made a convincing case for RCS. I think in the short term, you should take a look at e.g. Cheogram, Conversations, and Element and consider ways to enhance integration. Address book integration, automatically extending contact do not disturb exceptions, and maybe even dialer integration. In the long term, it would be best to try to guage antitrust r", "context": "", "use_case": "messaging", "switched_from": "", "story": "GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard"}, {"id": 793111569, "item_id": 49569473, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569473", "by": "JacobKfromIRC", "date": "2026-09-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "because of an error in the software I'm using", "excerpt": "Thank you, It's been on my mental to-do list to do a 911 test call (with pre-authorization from my 911 center) from the device at some point, but I've been procrastinating. I decided to try this today. I didn't expect updates to get in the way because they are usually not required immediately. For example, Windows will force an update eventually but it has to download it first and you can use the computer while it is", "context": "", "use_case": "VoIP calling app", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't"}, {"id": 791752513, "item_id": 49484532, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484532", "by": "Zambyte", "date": "2026-08-28", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For voip, I recommend jmp.chat and cheogram.", "excerpt": "For voip, I recommend jmp.chat and cheogram. I've been using it for years now.", "context": "", "use_case": "VoIP calls", "switched_from": "", "story": "Get your Windows license refund"}, {"id": 790795586, "item_id": 49424724, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424724", "by": "abound", "date": "2026-08-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Dino on my laptop, and Cheogram on my phone, and the experience has been quite nice and seamless.", "excerpt": "I recently migrated from Google Voice to jmp.chat, which is a telephony/SMS/etc bridge to XMPP. I use Dino on my laptop, and Cheogram on my phone, and the experience has been quite nice and seamless. Next step is to host my own Prosody server and import my whole Google Voice history.", "context": "", "use_case": "XMPP client on phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence"}, {"id": 764649696, "item_id": 47790606, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47790606", "by": "anonymousiam", "date": "2026-04-16", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Cheogram on my Android phone", "excerpt": "My use cases include 2FA and I like the added security that Voice provides, but it's not really added security, it's just moving the risk from your cell provider to Google. IMHO, Google does security better than the cell providers do. I like the muti-platform integration of Voice. I use it on my iPad, on my Android phone, and mostly from my desktop. It works well on all platforms. When I'm at home, I mainly use my Vo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data"}, {"id": 752599858, "item_id": 47037491, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037491", "by": "MattJ100", "date": "2026-02-16", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "a new app in the works between Cheogram and Snikket", "excerpt": "Yeah, iOS is definitely a weaker spot and we're aware of it. Monal is currently working on an overhaul of their UI (they have a grant allocated for it: https://nlnet.nl/project/Monal-IM-UI/ ). There is also a new app in the works between Cheogram and Snikket. There is a beta available, but it's still young (and we won't apply any Snikket branding until E2EE is complete). Thanks for sharing your experience!", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Running My Own XMPP Server"}]}