Wire - Secure Messenger

Wire Swiss GmbH

About this app

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

- Simple to use and beautifully designed
- A single tool to make small teams and complex organizations more productive
- Security and privacy at the core

Wire offers a free version for external business partners or friends and family.

Work securely, wherever you are

- Communicate and share information easily – call, chat, send pictures and files, audio and video messages – and be protected by the industry's most secure end-to-end encryption
- Stay in control of your 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
- 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, 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 – text, select, share
- 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
- Use Wire on up to 8 devices. Messages are separately end-to-end encrypted for each device. Your conversations are in sync across devices.
- Use up to 3 different Wire accounts on your device simultaneously — all without logging in and out

Wire 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.

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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.

Slow to sync and receive messages, clunky, no search feature, and lately the app suddenly showed messages from a long time ago and suddenly takes so long to backup conversations. Uninstalled and reinstalled the app already but backup still takes forever, like 20 minutes. Used to take just a few seconds. Feels like a bad college thesis project, TBH. Quite a hot mess.

It looked great, it felt great, it worked great until it didn't. Apps keeps aggressively closing, very long decrypting messages sequences, and delays in receiving and sending messages. I really wanted to like this app. But I know its open source, so I'll be patient.

What’s new

New
- Share files easily in Wire

Improvements
- Accessibility: Navigate in conversation view via an external keyboard
- Quick navigation between the conversation list and view
- Date handling

Fixes
- Audio playback switched to calling speaker instead of main speaker
- Drive: Wrong state for "Shared via link" filter
- Multiplatform backup included incorrectly self-deleting messages
- Missing error message in MLS conversations