WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, which doesn't exactly have a good track record when it comes to privacy, and they've been forced to keep the app free to use and free of ads because of user outrages (although they do want to change that). In reality, though, concerns regarding the app don't arise for security, but rather for privacy. Just to mention some of them, there's support for bots that add extra functionality to the app as well as to group chats, there are animated stickers, the app is fully customizable, it has chat folders, it allows you to use more than one phone number (or not use one at all). And it's absolutely packed with features.
#WHATSAPP VS SIGNAL VS TELEGRAM INSTALL#
It also enjoys a diverse install base on both iOS and Android for this very same reason. The app features channels as well as groups with thousands of people that act more like communities rather than just group chats. Telegram goes a long way towards being more of an integrated social ecosystem compared to other messaging apps. Telegram chats are fully accessible on any device you log into and are stored in the cloud using a symmetric encryption scheme called MTProto, developed in-house by the Telegram team and touting features such as 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, 2048-bit RSA encryption, and Diffie–Hellman key exchange. While Signal uses its own Signal protocol, which encrypts data end-to-end, Telegram doesn't have end-to-end encryption (secret chats do, though). Telegram's apparent "negative" is that it features a different method of encryption. But if you care about your privacy a lot, as we said before, then Signal will do you good.Ī lot of security analysts point out that Signal is more secure than Telegram. It's definitely not the end-all of secure messaging, something that has been proved by the occasional bug. It doesn't store any of your data, and also comes with a flurry of privacy-focused features as well as, of course, end to end encryption for all of your messages and conversations, so nothing that goes through the app's server can be seen or intercepted by anyone-it's encrypted on the server end and decrypted on the recipient end. And the app is fully ad-free and developed, maintained, and funded by the Signal Foundation, which is completely non-profit, unlike WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, Inc-people who care quite a bit about profits.
It is fully open-source both in the server-side of things as well as the client itself, which in user terms means that everything the app does, picks up, and does with your information is fully transparent. If security and encryption are all you're after, then Signal is as good as it'll get when it comes to both of those things.
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