Delta Chat

merlinux

About this app

Delta Chat is a reliable decentralized instant messenger that is easy and fun to use for friends, family, groups and organizations. Delta Chat is developed by a dedicated FOSS contributor community that jointly releases refinements and new features several times a year, across many stores and platforms world-wide.

Features at a glance:

• Anonymous. Instant on-boarding without a phone number, e-mail or other private data.

• Flexible. Supports multiple chat profiles and is easy to setup on multiple devices.

• Extensible. Add tools like shopping lists, calendars or gaming apps to any chat.

• Reliable. Works under bad and adversarial network conditions.

• Secure. Audited End-to-End encryption safe against network and server attacks.

• Sovereign. Can be run with your own e-mail address or server.

• FOSS. Fully Open Source/Free Software, built on Internet Standards.

• Audio and video calls supported! stay close to family and friends even when traveling.

Ratings and reviews

Would be nice to have the option to customize/change colors of receive/sent messages. So far, acquainting myself with the app. Another thing that would be helpful is to be able to short press (versus long press) on either an avatar or chat message within the main screen list and delete chats that way. Also, swipe left/right on a chat message to either call that contact; delete, mark as read (or unread) a message. Hopefully these features or at least a few of them can be implemented??

I love the concept, and everything works smoothly. The messages between my phone and my wife's seem to experience a hefty (in terms of instant messaging anyway) delay. Messages can take anywhere from 5 seconds to nearly a minute. Doesn't seem like something we can use as a daily driver unfortunately. If there's a checklist of steps I can take to reduce that lag, please let me know!

Great app. The speed of sending/receiving messages only relies on your email server. You can activate experimental calls in the settings (which are also great). I will try to use it as my daily messenger for my family. Also, checkout their github, there is a lot of useful and interesting information for technical people. The calls implemented just like I thought in a simpliest way and it's awesome. Looking forward for the updates and more features.

What’s new

★ Calls: Improve support for headset and remote controls (via Bluetooth, Auto, etc)
★ Add notifications for missed calls
★ Allow to configure call ringtone
★ Enhance display of messages with long links
★ Allow to select multiple files for sending
★ Fix pasting images from clipboard
★ Improve the image viewer, now you can see images in full-screen
★ Several bug fixes and updated translations