Delta Chat is a new chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt. You do not have to sign up anywhere, just use your existing e-mail account with Delta Chat.

  • Matt
    8·
    5 years ago

    Installed! Using protonmail already, but with Delta, I can use the space of my Gmail account, and annoy Google with encrypted message content… 😆

  • sukotai
    41·
    5 years ago

    A weird chat solution. The community should promote well-established chat solutions like irc, xmpp, and probably matrix in the future

    • TrollOP
      6·
      5 years ago

      I also use xmpp, irc and matrix ^^ What I like about DeltaChat is that it uses an existing infrastructure that everyone has, e-mail. And with autocrypt, even novices can use encryption.

      • sukotai
        2·
        5 years ago

        For me, a real chat application run in the background and gives you message at any time. I don’t know if delta-chat run in the background but it seems a weird solution. But if you are happy with it, why not. ( For info, app xmpp ‘conversation’ running in the background is only 10M RAM)

        • TrollOP
          4·
          5 years ago

          DeltaChat uses push mail, it sends messages directly from the server to the phone. I don’t oppose xmpp to deltachat it’s different technological solutions. I just share the link to this project which I think is great. Most people are sending unencrypted emails. At least with deltachat they’re encrypted.

    • oriond
      3·
      5 years ago

      matrix in the future

      Matrix is perfectly capable today! It is the only or one of the very few that has:

      • E2E for groups with multi device synchronization that actually works.
      • Fully Open Source that you can run by yourself.
      • Full API that allows you to easily write bots, bridges, etc…
  • Serge Tarkovski
    1·
    5 years ago

    It keeps not working properly at least last year. I’ve been installing it from time to time and always have an issue in delivering messages. Last time I didn’t get messages at all.

  • Serge Tarkovski
    1·
    4 years ago

    Also, wondering about the following:

    • why the client is imitating WhatsApp?
    • why there’s no system tray on Linux and I can even remember a discussion that it’s not needed?
    • why the desktop app top menu looks like a menu of a foreign wrapper?
    • adbenitez
      2·
      2 years ago

      why there’s no system tray on Linux and I can even remember a discussion that it’s not needed?

      it is an old reply, but for the new readers: system tray was implemented time ago, the desktop version has improved a lot,

      why the client is imitating WhatsApp?

      it is not imitating WhatsApp in particular but a messenger app, and that is the whole point of the project, being a “chat by e-mail” app, a new approach to managing and displaying email, if you prefer the classic inbox clients then just use them, you don’t have to use Delta Chat to communicate with other Delta Chat users the same way you don’t have to use Thunderbird just because your peers do