Signal Private Messenger

Signal Foundation

About this app

Signal is a messaging app with privacy at its core. It is free and easy to use, with strong end-to-end encryption that keeps your communication completely private.


• Send texts, voice messages, photos, videos, GIFs, and files for free. Signal uses your phone’s data connection, so you avoid SMS and MMS fees.


• Call your friends with crystal-clear encrypted voice and video calls. Group calls supported for up to 40 people.


• Stay connected with group chats up to 1,000 people. Control who can post and manage group members with admin permission settings.


• Share image, text, and video Stories that disappear after 24 hours. Privacy settings keep you in charge of exactly who can see each Story.


• Signal is built for your privacy. We know nothing about you or who you’re talking to. Our open source Signal Protocol means that we can’t read your messages or listen to your calls. Neither can anyone else. No back doors, no data collection, no compromises.


• Signal is independent and not for profit; a different kind of tech from a different kind of organization. As a 501c3 nonprofit we are supported by your donations, not by advertisers or investors.


• For support, questions, or more information please visit https://support.signal.org/


To check out our source code, visit https://github.com/signalapp


Follow us on Twitter @signalapp and Instagram @signal_app

Ratings and reviews

(Update 11/07/24: Still no option to customise the layout on the main screen :( I would again remind you to add the option to remove/hide the navigation bar) Overall a great app! But, please please please add an option to hide the navigation bar (and then move the call log to the three-dotted menu). There is a lot of wasted space at the bottom and top due to this design. Would be great to have the option to customise it to the user's taste.

The app has been updated tremendously since the beginning. It is now one of the best messaging apps out there (and if it had stickers, it would be better than WhatsApp). I do wish that they would change one thing. 1: Have the typing notification anywhere else than in Chat. It's very jarring to have the chat realign anytime someone starts or stops typing. A few more settings for power users like myself would be really nice, but that's wishful thinking.

I like the app but I by no means can switch off receiving notification bubbles from it. I tried everything, and they just keep popping up (I am using a xiaomi). To add insult to injury, since the newest updates, these bubbles won't even open the chat that I am getting the messages in, but instead a kind of blank page. Would be great if this gets fixed!

What's new

★ Even if you aren't standing in front of a beautiful outdoor vista, you can still turn your phone sideways and enjoy the new support for landscape video calls.