Signal -
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Seller: Signal Messenger, LLC (
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Category: Social Reviewed Version: 3.22.1
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Price: Paid Options Signal app is free to download from the app store. All its features like video calling, secure messaging, Picture editing are free for everyone. You doesn’t have to pay any extra charges to enjoy using its features. This makes it one of the most liked app by the users. This app is clients for android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Linux. The service is fully free and GDPR compliant.
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Signal has become one the most used app for messaging. It provides the most secure way to chat and call to your loved ones. Its private and secure system makes it more reliable than other apps like WhatsApp and Facebook messenger. It includes all the basic messaging tools you are going to need including read receipts, emoji support, group chats, voice and video calls.
This app is free to use and available for android, iOS and chrome. This app uses your mobile phone number to identify you to your contacts so there are no username or password to remember. On android, you can send normal SMS and MMS message while using signal to those contacts as well who don’t have this app installed.
App Features and Capabilities • Stay private: This app protects your chats. Everything you send or receive is encrypted making it hard for any hacker or third person to fetch your personal data. It doesn’t store any user data which means governments or agencies can’t request it .This also makes your personal chats free of leaks.
• Voice and video Quality: This app offers you the option to make crystal clear voice or video calls from anywhere. The HD quality of voice and video calls make it outstand other many messenger apps.
• Fast communication: Massages are delivered quickly and securely. Even, if your network is slow it doesn’t affect the sending and receiving speed of the messages. This app is optimized to operate in the most constrained situation possible.
• Custom alerts: This feature offers you to choose custom alerts for each contact. You can choose different sounds for your notification. You can disable completely the noise as well.
• Disappearing messages: This feature makes your history tidy. Your chat history gets removed and the old messages disappear as per the settings done by you.
• Easy photo editing: This feature offers you built in image editing feature to sketch, crop and rotate your outgoing photos. There is even a text tool so that you can add words too.
Pros • The best app in terms of providing security. Its encrypted messages are best in class and makes it almost impossible for third party to intercept your messages.
• File sharing option is very smooth and easy. You can share all manners of files. Audiovisuals are shared securely.
• It offers temporary messages sending option. Your messages gets deleted after some time or when read.
• Desktop/mobile sync option is great. You can easily switch to desktop and use messenger on it as well.
• In addition to texting, it offers you to make video and voice calls.
• The app publishes transparency reports to all its users and focuses on individual users.
Cons • Updates are frustrating sometimes. Whenever they release any update to the app, you have to update it on your mobile. Most of the time you open the app a new update is there.
• Users face problem of not getting messages. You no longer send or receive message until you update app. People might not know why you are not responding if you have an outdated version of the app.
• You have to re-sync Via QR code after update. You have to re-sync your mobile with your desktop after every update. These forced re-sync steps are quite laborious.
Other Information to Know Signal is generally considered most secure messaging app. The seller of this app is Signal messenger LLC. This app falls in the category of social networking with the rating of 4.8 stars on app store. It has a rating of 4.5 stars on google play store. App is available in more than 70 languages. You can download it for free from app store. The size of the app is 157 MB. This app is compatible with android and iOS system.
