Ricochet Refresh Alternatives

Ricochet Refresh is described as 'The new updated version of Ricochet, supported by Blueprint for Free Speech.. We are a non-government, not-for-profit organisation working to safeguard the freedom of expression for whistleblowers, activists, and everybody else, worldwide' and is a instant messenger in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ricochet Refresh for a variety of platforms, including Android, Linux, Windows, Mac and iPhone apps. The best Ricochet Refresh alternative is Signal, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ricochet Refresh are Telegram, Element, SimpleX Chat and bitchat.

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  1. Quaternion icon
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    Quaternion is a cross-platform Qt5-based desktop IM client for Matrix, a reference desktop application using libQMatrixClient. Source code, issue tracker, roadmap etc. can be found at GitHub. Releases (with links to cross-platform source code archives, as well as binaries for...

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    • Mac
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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  2. Sideband icon
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    Decentralized messaging client for Android, Linux and macOS allowing you to communicate with people or LXMF-compatible systems over Reticulum networks using LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi, I2P, or any other medium Reticulum supports.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  3. Skred icon
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    Skred is the first secure peer-to-peer instant messaging app - No need for an email address or phone number to use it.

    Skred is free, without subscription, without a provider, without a SIM card, and without leaving a trace.

    17 Skred alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
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  4. aTalk icon
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    An encrypted instant messaging with video call and GPS features for android.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  5. Ricochet icon
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    Anonymous instant messaging for real privacy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Selene icon
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    Selene is a comprehensive peer-to-peer chat and file sharing application built on the Tor network. It enables secure, private communication and seamless file transfers between users, leveraging the anonymity and resilience of Tor.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Windows
     
  7. StoneAge icon
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    All data is stored on your device and in your S3 bucket. Messages are end-to-end encrypted and exchanged via a P2P protocol over S3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  8. gurk icon
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    Signal Messenger client for terminal. Written in Rust.

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    • Linux
     
  9. This project won the first prize 🥇 at Telegram Lightweight Client Contest and now is an official Telegram client available to anyone at web.telegram.org/a.

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    • Online
     
  10. signal-cli icon
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    signal-cli is a commandline interface for the Signal messenger. It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. signal-cli uses a patched libsignal-service-java, extracted from the Signal-Android source code.

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    • Linux
    • Java
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  11. Tinfoil Chat icon
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    Tinfoil Chat (TFC) is a FOSS+FHD peer-to-peer messaging system that relies on high assurance hardware architecture to protect users from passive collection, MITM attacks and most importantly, remote key exfiltration.

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    • Linux
     
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