SimpleX Chat: secure messenger Reviews

by Benben23412

It shows that “connetion error “while i add new chat by creating link

by Romulan XI

While text chatting, SimpleXChat automatically attached a random photo from my camera roll and sent it to my peer. I never intended to send any attachment, let alone a phot from around 5 months ago that’s deeply buried in my photo collection. To make matters worse, I could not delete or unsend the photo.

Also, after being under development for years, the interface looks quite clunky and poorly made.

NOT RECOMMENDED.

by 仓鼠小猫咪

can’t connect to the server , can’t use it

by Little Blind Girl

Great concept and the basic stuff works for me in a functional sort of way. However, the interface makes navigating through the thread of messages using iOs Voiceover nearly impossible. I have to swipe (navigate to next item) about 10 times to get from one message to the next. I don't know what Voiceover is having to go over since none of it is spoken, but this interface is extremely inefficient, time consuming, and not at all how messaging apps should be. iMessages, Signal, etc, all the messages are right next to each other. Just one swipe from one to the next. Also, the date is spoken too soon after the message. On the outside where your connections are listed, it also takes 3 swipes to get from one to the next when it really only needs one. There are a few unlabeled elements and a lot of things have weird labels. I feel accessibility has not been given a high enough priority. I love, absolutely love what SimpleXChat is supposed to do, but in the state it's in right now, I can't use it. Thank you for all the work you've done so far and I'm looking forward to future improvements.

by Bkt0031

SimpleXChat is a good concept, but often when I send a message the recipient gets notified +20 minutes later which, for the most part, is unacceptable.

by Ev 🍃

Cant attach multiple pictures at once with descriptions, really a bummer thats something i would like changed

by Liaolee2002

不支持中文手写输入法！同时也不支持中文拼音输入法！无法使用！希望尽快改进！谢谢！ I couldn’t write messages in Chinese input! Thank you.

by Jovialkeach

SimpleXChat mostly works but audio input selection is broken on iOS. I can’t use my AirPod Pros with it at all. It’s a bummer…. All that privacy and you have to hold a video call to your ear or put it on speakerphone (although even switching to speakerphone is difficult)

by Inft Noname

Notifications arrive a bit slow. Tried testing callingn and it took a minute for the notification for the call to come up. Then it was stuck on connecting until i just called it quits. Also notification calls come up in russian.

by Droshawott

I appreciate this solution to messaging but notifications have always been a problem despite having instant notifications enabled, and since iOS 17 introduced sentence autofill texting has been a nightmare on SimpleX. As the keyboard suggests words, instead of waiting for the user to tap on the suggested word the keyboard will just fill it in regardless while you’re typing. This is the only app I’ve had this issue with, hoped it would be fixed after a while, and alas as of 12/12/23 it still persists.

by Anonymous User 23579

Update to my review below. Noticed that if my recipient hasn’t opened SimpleXChat in a few days, then messages I send her don’t get delivered. So while the privacy and anonymity features of this messaging app are better than Signal or any other such app I’ve seen, it appears to be still a work in progress as not everything works as expected. I hope the devs work out the bugs and soon.

Love the concept of no user IDs and no personal information used. No registration. No phone numbers. No email addresses. Multiple profiles. In these regards it’s better than Signal. However, calling needs some work. When calling, would be nice to hear a ringing tone. Would be nice to have option to launch speakerphone while the call is ringing before being picked up. Also, there is a delay of a few seconds after caller picks up before I can hear the caller. The caller is saying “hello” after pickup and I can’t hear them until a few seconds after they pick up. This is with relay calls enabled. Didn’t try with relay disabled. But Signal has no such issue with relay calls enabled. I hope it continues to improve and gains popularity because in concept it’s excellent.

by Greg.i

It's amazing that such a small team put together such a full featured app. It's a bit unstable with frequent crashes, but luckily this happens while chatting so I just restart SimpleXChat . If it died in the background I'd miss notifications, which would be a bigger problem.

by FredFredBurger#432

Loving it so far, fast and very easy to use. The only thing I feel is missing that I need is the ability to either include images with the groups welcome message or the ability to pin certain selected photos in the group so new joiners are able to see them as well without them being resent. Other than that great experience so far, keep up the good work !

by Sleeping A Lot

Будет ли версия под iPad?

by Ladybug-Lady9876

More anonymous than Signal, faster than Session. It’s missing only a few things to bring it up to par with others (emoji reactions, read receipts). Otherwise great potential and excited to see it grow.

by ESSx1!

Very fast to send messages. Room for a lot of improvements and the team is in the right path

by K2adir

Good luck on your journey!

by Ibrahouri

I liked too much now I change from ather app like signal and session , thank you very much simplex team and good luck 💐❤️🎉

by Wildhundreds

This is the most secure messenger I've encountered. Unbelievable.

by AnonymousAnonAnon

I forgot the password and so can’t reset it

by Chaotic Oven

It’s super polished, takes like 2 seconds to set up, very customizable, clean interface in all platforms, and really fast

No more to the clunky nature of Matrix, the sketchiness of Telegram, or the ancient IRC. SimpleX is definitely the way to go for all (or most) of your communication needs

by Markbyrn

With governments cracking down on privacy apps, what you need is a decentralized, free and open-source end-to-end secure messaging platform. An app like Telegram doesn’t even provide end-to-end encryption by default and thus poses a risk to users. SimpleX checks all the boxes and it’s cross-platform. The only potential downside is the apparent lack of a web app (PWA). If Apple were to remove SimpleXChat at the behest of a government, it would be problematic unless you were in the EU and could sideload SimpleXChat .

by ThemePro

With governments cracking down on privacy apps, what you need is a decentralized, free and open-source end-to-end secure messaging platform. An app like Telegram doesn’t even provide end-to-end encryption by default and thus poses a risk to users. SimpleX checks all the boxes and it’s cross-platform. The only potential downside is the apparent lack of a web app (PWA). If Apple were to remove SimpleXChat at the behest of a government, it would be problematic unless you were in the EU and could sideload SimpleXChat .

by 360Enc

5 stars but I can see security issue arising from how SimpleXChat handles self deleting messages .. it is confusing to say the least. One simple (optional) global setting for all chats that sets default self destruct timer for all chats on both sender/receiver (or if two users set different timer should force lowest value of the two and notify chat participants). Message control is critical part of security onion and should not be overlooked. Also, SimpleXChat should use more secure iOS data protection class (NSFileProtectionCompleteUnlessOpen) to protect against local forensic attacks (cellbrite, greykey). This overlooked feature of iOS allows apps data to be encrypted while device is AFU and is better & safer than rolling your own crypto for local app level encryption.