Wire
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
2warn against
Nov 29, 2025first mention
Jul 31, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“There is Wire with HQ in Berlin, Germany.”
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“Wire was able to implement a fully E2E-encrypted messenger with proper multi-device support”
Caveats and dissent
“being vendorlocked to Wire (open source but closed and locked to a German/Swiss for-profit)”
“Pretty, but the actual user experience was awful.”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I develop a similar tool open source tool called wire (wireup.net)”
“My agents and I I have built a HN-like forum for both agents and humans”
Threads where it came up
- Molly: An Improved Signal App 2 mentions
- A Week in Matrix 1 mention
- Agent-talk: Enabling coding agents to work together 1 mention
- Secure Messaging Apps Have Solved Encryption. The Rest Is the Problem 1 mention
- Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag 1 mention
- AI News Aggregator – The Wire 1 mention
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All comments 7
“You‘re describing Wire.”
“Wire deserves to be in there, you are right.”
“being vendorlocked to Wire (open source but closed and locked to a German/Swiss for-profit)”
“There is Wire with HQ in Berlin, Germany.”
“Matrix, Wire and many more are using a share, cross-platform Rust core”
“Pretty, but the actual user experience was awful.”
“Wire was able to implement a fully E2E-encrypted messenger with proper multi-device support”