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

This is the best secure messaging app I could find, but not because it's so great, but because competitors suck even more. They either insist on using your phone number as identifier (Signal et al) or drain your battery (Antox). Problems with this app include extremely inconvenient key verification process and inconsistent notification time. I have not seen hour-long notification delays like other users, but a few minutes is not uncommon.

Update: worsening each day. Constantly crashes and freezes. It used to be great but now I dread using it. Barely opens and I have to uninstall/reinstall daily which makes me lose all my backups. If I didn't have to then I wouldn't use the product. Staff takes a long time to reach out and help. Only two personal accounts on Android compared to three on Apple. Update: I've had to uninstall and reinstall FOUR TIMES in the last week and even more overall. No history is saved.

I've used this app since 2015. At first it was a great, but they keep releasing updates that break the app. Messages will randomly be wiped from chats (the trash icon doesn't even show), images more than a couple days old won't load, you have to completely close and restart the app a few times in order to read a message, and sending a message is no longer reliable. A simple text message takes quite a while after clicking resend a few times. Wish they would have just left it alone.

What’s new

Improvements
- Better handling of SSO code when using certain enterprise setups.
- Target SDK 35
- Optimized calling interface on tablets so buttons display properly.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where accepting a call from a notification sometimes didn’t work.
- Removed an unnecessary switch from conversation details.
- Caller names in some missed call notifications now display correctly.
- Resolved occasional decryption errors in one-on-one conversations.