Proton Chat - Messaging app
Let's make it in some math style:
ProtonMail : Gmail = ProtonChat : Hangouts
:)
Secure private chat same principle of secure email, but applied to chats.
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Yusef commented
There are several good options out there that we're all familiar with, but if those options satisfied our needs and wants we wouldn't be discussing this. I would like to see Proton's vision in a Messaging & Voice-Video Calling app - an alternative to (and combining the best of) WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, and MySudo - done the Proton way with the Proton interface. As another commenter stated, it would likely be based on the Signal platform.
• Offered as a separate plan or as part of the other package offerings
• Does not require a phone number, but offers the option of Proton virtual numbers, and works with non-Proton virtual numbers.
• End-to-end encryption in peer-to-peer communications.
• Can call or message non-Proton numbers.
• Offers multiple profiles, each with unique phone numbers
• Connects with others by Usernames or Handles or randomly generated alpha-numeric IDs like Session, while oncealing personal info, including name, phone number, IP address.
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Deej commented
yes, definitely needed
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NoobChick78 commented
Would be nice to have a messaging app like proton mail but with no phone number bounded to it, if possible.
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Unacceptable Chad Meyers commented
For a text replacement, there is Signal, but it is tied to a phone number. For chatting with my kids and as a family with a group chat we are stuck with Google Chat, and I really do not like that. Slowly, I have got all my family creating Proton accounts and moving over. Having a chat feature would be the last thing I need to get them to ALL move over.
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RadioAddition commented
A feature similar to google chats on protonmail, either through existing infrastructure or maybe through something else (like xmpp or signal protocol) either built into the protonmail app or on a separate app
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Prosciut commented
On this aspect, it would be worth to look into Bison Relay, which is an open source messaging protocol developed on lighting network: https://bisonrelay.org/
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V.F. commented
This is THE service Proton is missing to make my full digital life private. Struggling to find a proper good fully private messaging app.
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H commented
You could consider acquiring Threema and integrating that into the proton ecosystem
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Anon commented
There are other great apps like signal and session... but it isnt quite as saturated as the browser space... so maybe?
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Matt commented
I think I'd only use this if it had SMS/RCS support. Signal sadly I didn't use once they dropped that cause I knew no one who had it. Also, everyone uses WhatsApp now so it'll be hard to take that audience.
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Brian Hodges commented
@will, I agree.
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will commented
There is another suggestion on this forum mentioning buying Threema, and I agree. Similar to other partnerships/acquisitions Proton has done, this one would make a TON of sense.
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haveyou commented
like idea, what it better than signal, is bening hear to to not trust
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G commented
Any integration to create a secure meeting with existing solutions would be fine too imo
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Clayton Decker commented
There are already too many messing apps. Signal and Session are excellent platforms.
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Fco José Hidalgo commented
Ojalá un servicio de mensajeria de Proton, cifrado de extremo a extremo, pudiendo incluso integrar videollamadas de alta calidad.
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Wizard4_Uncorrupt2 commented
Rather than their own separate chat app, I'd prefer simply offering servers for an existing open source chat protocol, such as XMPP/Jabber or Matrix.
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Arkamas commented
Absolutely critical addition to the Proton suite. There are few trustworthy encrypted messaging apps and Proton would do an amazing job with one.
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--------------- commented
Signal collab, right?
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JarickWorks commented
Proton could potentially use the Signal protocol to save on development costs.
Having a contact app that integrates with mail and chat would be great as well.