Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
www.beeper.com
A single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other chat networks. You can search, snooze, or archive messages. And with a unified inbox, you’ll never miss a message again.

Has anyone taken a good look at this from a privacy standpoint? I love this in concept, but not sure if it would be privacy conscience to share credentials for all of these different apps.

  • @HughJanusEnglish
    7•9 months ago

    Been using this for about a month now.

    Depends on which service you’re looking at.

    If you use it with Facebook Messenger/WhatsApp, it’s probably more secure, as it’s the only way I know of to get messages without having the spyware app installed on your device.

    If you use it with Signal, Beeper (Matrix) will log of a bunch of metadata that Signal will not.

    I was not able to get iMessage working, and had a couple of services that I was repeatedly logged out of for reasons I can’t explain.

    The problem with apps like this is that they’re designed to make third party services do things those parties don’t want you doing. And ultimately those third parties are the ones in control. All they have to do is change 1 line of code to break your shit. And then the developer has to fix it, and it becomes this constant whackamole game, and meanwhile you’re missing your notifications/messages.