We only included it because it's the world's most popular messaging app, and it does actually offer an optional end-to-end encryption feature, called Secret Conversation, which you can enable for individual chat conversations from an Android or iOS device (it's not yet available for desktops). With that in mind, here are some of the best encrypted messaging apps available now for Android and iOS devices.įacebook Messenger barely made this list, because technically, it isn't fully end-to-end encrypted. In the post-Snowden era, you can never be too concerned about your privacy.
You may even need to set up secret chats. Sometimes encryption happens automatically, so there's no need to turn on a setting. But privacy campaigners warn that undermining encryption is a rights violation. Many different departments and police agencies prefer to have access to all our communications in order to stop criminals, and because of that, end-to-end encrypted services, which again means only the sender and the recipient are able to read messages, are hotly debated. Nobody in between, not the government nor even the companies and developers offering these tools, can access it. With these tools, we're able to make sure that only us - and the people we're communicating with - can read what is sent. They're creating encrypted services and launching end-to-end encryption options we can enable in apps.
