Delta Chat

4.2
1.89K reviews
500K+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

Delta Chat is a reliable decentralized instant messenger that is easy and fun to use for friends, family, groups and organizations. Delta Chat is developed by a dedicated FOSS contributor community that jointly releases refinements and new features several times a year, across many stores and platforms world-wide.

Features at a glance:

• Anonymous. Instant on-boarding without a phone number, e-mail or other private data.

• Flexible. Supports multiple chat profiles and is easy to setup on multiple devices.

• Extensible. Add tools like shopping lists, calendars or gaming apps to any chat.

• Reliable. Works under bad and adversarial network conditions.

• Secure. Audited End-to-End encryption safe against network and server attacks.

• Sovereign. Can be run with your own e-mail address or server.

• FOSS. Fully Open Source/Free Software, built on Internet Standards.
Updated on
May 15, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.2
1.83K reviews
Yuri
December 19, 2022
Great replacement of WhatsApp by using a decentralized technology backbone that is already in place: email. However the app still need to mature in development. For example: if someone sends multiple messages after each other within a short amount of time (just like any IM some people unfortunately sends a message for every line ..) for some reason at the receivers end the messages do not appear in the correct order. can't tell if this is caused by the order of the emails receiving in the inbox
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John “Johnnyboy” Do
February 14, 2022
Love the simplicity and the ability to switch between multiple accounts. This could be a very good alternative to whatsapp/signal/telegram but in my personal opinion it's better because it uses your emails mail servers instead of a centralized server like the other mentioned apps. It's also cool that if the other person doesn't have Delta Chat he/she wil still receive the message in there emails inbox. It's not a perfect app but I comes close to it.
57 people found this review helpful
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A
February 22, 2025
I don't receive notifications a while after closing the app. I have to keep it open for notifications to work. But all in all it's a really good app, doesn't require anything! All you need is a name to go with. Although I do have some suggestions or requests. 1. Will you make it possible to send images from google photos app directly through delta? 2. Will calls ever be implemented?
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What’s new

★ make in-chat apps properly work when they are not sent yet, in draft mode
★ better avatar quality
★ some more bug fixes and updated translations