Signal Review: Pricing, Features & Verdict | Softwr

Signal

Name: Signal
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Author: Signal Foundation

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Overview

What Signal does

Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service with a focus on privacy. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos.

What people use it for

Private messaging
Secure group communication
Confidential conversations
Journalism communication
Family messaging

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Signal.

Signal must be installed on a phone before the desktop app can be used, so there is no phone-free desktop-only account

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Signal

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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Pricing

What Signal costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

End-to-end encrypted messaging
Voice and video calls
Group chats
Disappearing messages
Screen lock
No ads or tracking

Capabilities

Features

End-to-end encryption
End-to-end encryption capability
Disappearing messages
Disappearing messages capability
Screen security
Screen security capability
Group chats
Group chats capability
Voice calls
Voice calls capability
Video calls
Video calls capability
File sharing
File sharing capability
No data collection
No data collection capability
Open source protocol
Integration with Open source protocol
Signal Protocol
Integration with Signal Protocol
Desktop sync
Integration with Desktop sync
Signal Protocol
Signal Protocol security feature

Behind it

Who makes Signal

Company: Signal Foundation
Based in: Mountain View, California, USA
Founders: Moxie Marlinspike, Brian Acton

Timeline

Signal over time

Funding2018-02-21$50m
Signal Technology Foundation established
Source

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Where to go from Signal

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Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Signal, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.