ArcaneChat

ArcaneChat is a decentralized and secure instant messenger that is easy to use for friends and family.

• Private. Instant on-boarding without a phone number or other private data.

• Friends & Family: Only chat with people you know. Unknown users cannot message or follow you without mutual consent.

• Flexible. Supports multiple chat profiles and is easy to setup on multiple devices.

• Extensible. Use mini-apps in chats like shopping lists, calendars or games.

• Reliable. Works under bad and adversarial network conditions.

• Secure. Audited End-to-End encryption safe against network and server attacks.

• Sovereign. Can be run with your own e-mail address or server.

ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client and was created with a focus on usability, good user experience, and saving data plan. Also the app usually experiments with new features that eventually might get added to the official Delta Chat client.

Main differences with official Delta Chat client:

• Support for having multiple mini-apps open at the same time and you can keep navigating the chats while you have a mini-app open


• Support for some markdown styles in text messages (bold, italic, strike, etc.)


• Support for displaying Telegram's animated stickers (.tgs files)


• Support for SVG images previews


• Multiple color themes/skins


• It is possible to disable profiles to completely disconnect them saving data/bandwidth


• Clicking on a message with a POI location, will open the POI on the map


• Last-seen status of contacts is shown in your contact list, like in WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.


• Videos are played in loop, useful for short GIF videos


• Verified icon is shown in the chat list for the "Device Messages" and "Saved Messages" chat to avoid fishing attempts by scammer pretending to be the official chats


• Voice messages have more aggressive compression in "worse quality" mode to save data plan


• Automatic download of messages limited to 640KB by default


• Profile's display name is always shown in the app's title bar instead of the name of the app


• For mini-apps developers: there are some extra features in the WebXDC API, check https://github.com/ArcaneChat/android/#webxdc


• Better settings organization with additional "Privacy" section

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