This comes straight from Olvid’s own GitHub page, and it’s free. Need help installing?
What it looks like
About this app
Olvid is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that asks for no personal information at all. It does not want your phone number, and it never reads your contacts. You add someone by exchanging an invitation and confirming it directly with them, and that mutual check is the only thing your privacy rests on.
Because there is no central directory of users, nobody can look you up and send you things you did not ask for. Olvid does use servers to carry messages, but the encryption happens on your own phone and is designed on the assumption that those servers were broken into on day one.
Made in France, and put through the French government's CSPN security certification. The help pages and tutorial videos are in English and French.
From the app’s home page
- See the codeHow it’s made, every line is public
- WebsiteThe app’s own home page
- Questions & commentsTalk with the people who make it
- Report a problemTell the makers something is broken
- All versionsOlder downloads and what changed
- LicenseThe rules for using and sharing it
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