Wire - Secure Messenger

Wire Swiss GmbH

About this app

Wire is secured with end-to-end encryption and makes life easier.
Get your stuff done in one app.

- Simple to use and beautifully designed
- One tool to boost productivity for small teams and complex organizations
- Security and privacy at the core

Work securely, wherever you are

- Communicate and share information easily – call, chat, share pictures and files, audio and video messages – and be protected by the industry's most secure end-to-end encryption
- Always stay in control of data
- Increase privacy through self-deleting messages for sensitive information, device fingerprints, and guest links with passwords
- Eliminate risks with constant bitrate in calls

Stay connected and work productively

- Communicate with your teams through private or group conversations to bring the right people together
- Share and collaborate with files, documents, and links with reactions
- Enjoy high-quality calls and video conferences
- Invite partners, customers, and suppliers to collaborate through the unique guest rooms – perfect for one-time conversations
- Set up meetings quickly
- Use formatting options to write clear and structured messages
Collaborate smoothly with the help of mentions, replies (swipe right on Android), and reactions
- Send a ping to get someone's attention
- Use QR codes to connect with people
- Share your location in a conversation
- Add conversations to a custom folder helps you organize your conversations by topics
- Archive conversations to keep your list clean
- Rely on full administrative controls

Get things done and enjoy it

- Customize the app to your needs: choose your favorite color, theme, and suitable text size
- Draw a sketch in any conversation
- Send audio messages if you are on the go or too busy to type
- Use Animated GIFs easily – text, select, share
- Change notifications for specific conversations
- Use emojis to make your messages more fun
- History backup lets you take all the conversations, pictures, videos, and files when upgrading to a new phone or switching computers
- Use Wire on up to 8 devices. Messages are separately end-to-end encrypted for each device. Your conversations are in sync across devices.

Wire Secure Messenger is available on any device and operating system: iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, and web browsers. So your team can collaborate in the office, at home, or on the road. Wire offers a free version for external business partners or friends and family.

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Ratings and reviews

worse since updates. it's never been as slick as other apps but the security made up for it. with the new update, wire on android can't record audio (and there even used to be fun filters for audio messages!). you can't set disappearing messages (a key security feature that was removed). and when in the phone's gallery and trying to send an image, the app often just opens instead of sending, so you have to redo the send. can no longer archive chats. the list goes on. wire is way worse now.

There's a lot going for this app, but it just isn't reliable. It's slow, often displaying "decrypting messages" which should not take so long and should not occur so often. Also, the app gets stuck "waiting for network". This happens even with perfect connectivity. Clearing cache helps for a minute, but the bug returns. With every update we get regressions. It's unfortunate, but I'm still hopeful they will provide a reliable app some day.

I like the app but it has a major problem. I have to restart my phone every few days as messages don't always come through. Once I restart, the messages appear. and it's not just my side, many of my contacts have the same issue. I hope they can get this fixed up before I have to move on to something more reliable. Edit: STOP LYING AND TELLING PEOPLE THAT YOU HAVE FIXED THIS ISSUE, CLEARLY IT IS NOT RESOLVED

What’s new

Fixes

- Resolved performance bugs, crashes, and various other issues