Session - Private Messenger 17+
Send messages, not metadata
The Loki Project
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- Free
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Description
Session is a new breed of private messenger, built on a unique network of user-operated servers spread all over the world. With no central servers, Session can’t leak or sell your data. And with Session’s private routing protocols, your messages are completely anonymous. No one ever knows who you’re talking to, what you’re saying, or even your IP address.
• Fully anonymous account creation: No phone number or email needed to create an Account ID
• Decentralised server network: No data breaches, no central point of failure
• No metadata logging: Session doesn't store, track, or log your messaging metadata
• IP address protection: Device IP addresses are never exposed to the person you're talking to or the servers holding your data
• Closed groups: Private, end-to-end encrypted group chats for up to 100 people
• Secure attachments: Share voice snippets, photos, and files with Session's secure encryption and privacy protections
• Free and open-source: Don’t take our word for it — check Session's code yourself
Session is free as in free speech, free as in free beer, and free of ads and trackers. Session is built and maintained by the OPTF, Australia’s first privacy tech not-for-profit organisation. Take back your online privacy today — download Session.
Want to build from source, report a bug, or just take a look at our code? Check out Session on GitHub: https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios
What’s New
Version 2.8.1
• Fixed an issue where disappearing messages not showing follow setting control message
• Fixed an issue where contacts were incorrectly deleted along with their one-to-one conversations
• Fixed an issue where sending a message into a group while you were the only member resulted in the message permanently being in the "Sending" state
Ratings and Reviews
Love the app, small issue though.
I’ve been using this for a few months now and it’s my favourite messaging app to date.
Only issue is it bugged out a little bit (which happens, no problem there) so I deleted it and tried to restore my account, it has restored it but with only 5 contacts and no display names as to who those contacts are.
Again very happy with the apps usability and design and execution, just wanted to point out the fault I’ve encountered.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your feedback and support. Once you send a new message to your contacts, you should see their 'username' appear again.
Now it’s a great app again
Wrote a review giving 3stars Nov 5 and stating how exasperating it was using an iPad in landscape mode, then having to physically turn the iPad to portrait mode to send links and comments. This was a feature of Sessions some 12months + back but disappeared for some reason. Well it’s back now 2 weeks after I posted the original review and I have upped my rating to 5stars, thanks to the developers honest response and action.
Great app👍
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your review! We are glad that functionality you needed from Session has been restored - thanks for sticking with us!
Version 2.8.0 & 2.8.1 on iPhone 7 Plus (iOS 15.8.3)
My Path (basically like the "jumps" the app takes through the Session network) takes an infinite amount of time to load - meaning my app is not even able to make a connection to the Session network = app does not work. Very poor intel softwares! From a little researching online I have read a desktop Version has also suffered from this defect in a build number, though that was corrected on the following Version of the Desktop app. Two stars for the fact that a fix may be on its way? .... Update :: Version 2.8.1 has not fixed the problem :/
App Privacy
The developer, The Loki Project, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Rangeproof PTY LTD
- Size
- 75 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Baluchi, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Catalan, Chichewa, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Ganda, Georgian, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2022 The Oxen Project
- Price
- Free