Privacy-First Chat App Comparison

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N
1		emberclear	Facebook Messenger	Google Hangouts	Slack	Discord	Gitter.im	WhatsApp	Signal	Telegram	Riot.im	wire	Mattermost	Keybase

2	User Features
3	free	✔️	✔️	✔️	limited	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	❌	✔️	✔️
4	dark mode	✔️	❌	❌	❌	✔️	✔️	mobile		❌	❌
5	does not ask for/need phone number/email	✔️	❌	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	❌	❌	❌	❌	✔️		✔️
6	threads	eventually	❌	❌	✔️	❌	❌	❌		❌	❌		✔️	❌
7	message received notices	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️		✔️	✔️
8	direct messages	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
9	ephemeral chats / throw-away users	soon	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌		❌	❌
10	channels / rooms	soon	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️		✔️	✔️
11	trustless channels	eventually	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	-			❌
12	password protected channels	eventually	❌	❌	✔️	✔️	❌	-			❌
13	protection vs spam channel invitations	✔️	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	-		❌	✔️
14	code syntax highlighting	✔️	❌	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	❌			✔️
15	multiple languages	supported	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	🤷				✔️
16	audio calls	eventually	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	❌	✔️	✔️		✔️	✔️		❌
17	video calls	eventually	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	❌	✔️	✔️		✔️	✔️		❌
18	file sharing	eventually	❌	❌	✔️	✔️	❌	✔️			✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
19	inline images and gifs	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️					✔️
20	expiring messages	eventually	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✔️		❌			✔️
21	workspaces / servers	❌	❌	❌	✔️	✔️	❌				✔️
22	emoji reactions	eventually	✔️	❌	✔️	✔️	❌				✔️
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24	Technical Features
25	end to end encryption	✔️	❌	🤷	❌	❌	❌	✔️	✔️		✔️	✔️
26	open source	✔️	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✔️	❌	✔️		✔️
27	web app works on mobile	✔️	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌			✔️	🤮	❌
28	no server logging	✔️	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌		❌	❌
29	no history	✔️	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌		❌	❌
30	local encryption	soon	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	optional	❌
31	native mobile app	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️		✔️	✔️
32	control native app via web	n/a	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✔️			❌
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34	Enterprise Features
35	* Personal Privacy is Compromised
36	SSO / OAuth2						✔️						✔️
37	Integrations?										✔️
38	History	maybe									✔️
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41	Notes		Facebook actively works against you from using the web version of messenger on mobile devices	Constantly breaks in-browser. Feels like an afterthought from Google							Feels very slow / sluggish. Web app on mobile takes forever to load. Joined Tezos room, and it took about 30s to send a message
42											Feature-wise, this is very nice though
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