A cross-platform centralized encrypted instant messaging service developed by the non-profit Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC.
Mobile phones are not software but they have inherent anti-features which made a lot of people avoid them like fire. For example, the way mobile phones connect to the mobile network, through towers, by design, makes it a surveillance system. And the SIM card companies keep the data of where the phone goes. Notice how for this surveillance, the software on the phone is irrelevant. It could be Free or it could be Non-Free. Surveillance is done in a different way. So requiring a cell phone is a big issue.
Electron is a stripped down Chromium web-browser used as a component in an unfortunate amount of modern software. Since it's a tiny web-browser, it gives the developers the ability to deploy their websites as pieces of software installable locally. Hopefully locally. Since it's a small browser, you can't know for sure what parts are local. Electron apps are something in between web-sites and real software. But they feel like real software to the user. One more problem with Electron is that most of the times developing a native application using a native way of rendering it will result in much, much more optimized experience. Electron apps usually eat a lot of resources.
WebTox is a web-based Tox client written in go (server-side) and html5 (client-side).
With the rise of government monitoring programs, qTox provides an easy to use application that allows you to connect with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big-name services require you to pay for features, qTox is totally free, and comes without advertising.
A not for profit, open source matrix client with a focus on privacy and ease of use.
Quaternion is a cross-platform desktop IM client for the [matrix] protocol.
A fancy, customizable, keyboard-operable [matrix] chat client for encrypted and decentralized communication.
Several proprietary parts were removed from the original Telegram client, including Google Play Services for the location services, HockeySDK for self-updates and push notifications through Google Cloud Messaging. Location sharing functionality is restored using OpenStreetMap.
This app [Telegram] have nothing with privacy, it's remotely controlled. It's pissing me off, so i changed that.
Command-line interface for Telegram. Uses readline interface.