Session
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Session is a decentralized Signal fork that creates the account on the device without associating it with a phone number.”
“> 100% e2ee encrypted and decentralized and open https://getsession.org”
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“Well, I guess they didn't sell out”
“some options i can recommend are matrix,simplex,session etc.”
“Another vote for Session, I guess.”
Caveats and dissent
“You should definitely avoid Session.”
“I was locked out and couldn’t access MY ACCOUNT.”
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“Session is a low-privacy fork of Signal.”
“it's silly to compare Session to Signal when Session is flawed in its cryptography”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I used to work on Session and I believe in the project.”
Threads where it came up
- Session is shutting down in 90 days 5 mentions
- Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable 2 mentions
- Kash Patel says FBI is investigating Signal chats of Minnesotans tracking ICE 2 mentions
- Molly: An Improved Signal App 2 mentions
- UK Crime Agency Backs "Upload Prevention" Plan to Scan Encrypted Messages 2 mentions
- Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs 1 mention
Data: session.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 18
“You should definitely avoid Session.”
“Session is a decentralized Signal fork that creates the account on the device without associating it with a phone number.”
“> 100% e2ee encrypted and decentralized and open https://getsession.org”
“I noticed that more are using Session now and not Signal (no phone number or email required)”
“Session is not shutting down”
“Well, I guess they didn't sell out”
“The decentralized private messaging app”
https://simplex.chat is the best option.
“You don’t need a mobile number or an email to make an account with Session.”
“I was locked out and couldn’t access MY ACCOUNT.”
“Session is a low-privacy fork of Signal.”
“it's silly to compare Session to Signal when Session is flawed in its cryptography”
“session was the more ergonomic one to build on”
“some options i can recommend are matrix,simplex,session etc.”
And you can use your Session ID to post or reply to posts at https://www.LokiList.com (best viewed with javascript disabled) for anonymous casual encounters.
“Another vote for Session, I guess.”
There's SOGS, which is also GPL-3.0. https://github.com/NightSommelier/session-sogs You can just make a group within the client, though.
“Tor-like routing of messages quite interesting”