Session

Session

The Session Technology Foundation
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About

Meet Messages, Google's official app for texting (SMS, MMS) and chat (RCS). Messages simple, helpful messaging by Google. Boost your conversations with chat features, share high-quality media without extra fees, text on Wi-Fi, see when your friends are typing and enjoy better group chats. Texting is simple with Messages. Text anyone from your phone or computer, at any time. Up late? Dark mode has you covered with a nighttime look that's easier on the eyes. Messages makes it easy to ask the Google Assistant for helpful information, right from your conversation. Always helpful, Messages allows you to get more done. Like finding and sharing things easily, responding with just a tap, or even sending a payment – right from a chat. Messages has the perfect GIF or sticker for when you need more than just words. See useful information from businesses and get more done, all from your Messages app.

About

Session is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that minimizes sensitive metadata, designed and built for people who want absolute privacy and freedom from any form of surveillance. Session accounts are completely anonymous. No phone number or email required. Session doesn’t collect data, so there’s nothing to leak. Send messages through our onion routing network and leave no trace. Session’s code has nothing to hide. Anyone can view, audit, and contribute. With no central point of failure, it’s harder to shut Session down. Talk to your friends or talk to the world. You decide. Closed groups let you talk to up to 20 friends at once, with the same encrypted protection as one-on-one chats. Got a bigger crowd? Use an open group to connect with as many people as you want. Sometimes, a text just isn’t enough. Voice messages let you send something a little more personal, so nothing gets lost in translation.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Anyone looking for an android-based easy-to-use messaging app for texting and chat

Audience

Anyone who wants an encrypted messaging app that works on all platforms, no phone number required

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 2.5 / 5
ease 2.7 / 5
features 2.6 / 5
design 2.7 / 5
support 2.1 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.0 / 5
ease 4.5 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 4.0 / 5
support 4.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Absolutely NOTHING!! Especially being given no damn choice in the switch after being a loyal Samsung customer since 2010.
  • nothing about this application works for me, it sends random text messages to people that I did not enter
  • I have not found anything I like or to recommend to others to encourage anyone to use this app. This app needs significant amount of work as far as I am concerned.
  • Security feature are good and i do like the spam blocker. That is all I can come up with right now. The bad outweighs the good.
  • I can "Like" a text. That's it for pros.

Cons

  • I don't like ANYTHING about the crappy Google messages. I absolutely hate it and if given the choice I definitely wouldn't have it on my phone and as stated before if my Samsung phone wasn't new I'd switch brands as I'm now planning to do with my next phone purchase. Loyalty means nothing to big companies anymore. All you all want is max your profits while producing cheaper crap for your consumers.🤬
  • messages not sent, random messages sent, application is worthless
  • Opening display, deleting process, when viewing an attached video, it changed the view to a long picture, total different view. Do not like display, deleting process or what it does to videos.
  • The texting is awful. Once you start typing in you message the screen remains still. It doesn't scroll down as you type so you can see what you are typing. You have to exit the keyboard to read your message and make sure the cursor is at the end so you can start typing again. Also the auto correct doesn't make sense. It pulls up misspelled word or word that don't even pertain to what is being typed. This app is the worst I have felt with. You can't like photos and only sometimes you can like a text during a conversation. The other text app options for this phone are a joke. I am about ready to switch my phone entirely. With all the new technology this is awful.
  • Almost everything else. Takes 30 seconds for app to open, and to navigate around. Can not "Like" a photo. Can not create a Group. It just doesn't work. Can not send text to more than one person. It sends to each recipient separately.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • I found session 2 years ago when it was just put out and was in love, no sign up or logs, top notch encryption and u can dump and create new accounts as quick and easy as pushing a button. Session is the future.
  • The range of features and the actual current demonstrated capabilities and omissions are grand. Open source is critically important and their protocol is based upon tried and true protocols from safe developers. It's a shame you can't trust their situation as an entity - as all of this can become irrelevant immediately in the blink of an eye under a number of plausible - likely, even - scenarios. This weakness must be addressed.
  • Free and open source. End-to-end encrypted messenger. Decentralized. Doesn't require phone number or email. No meta data tracking.
  • Decentralized. E2e encrypted. No email or number required. P2p v.soon. Faster than tor. Easy interface.

Cons

  • It was buggy, but they were working on it. I also noticed something, called sentinel? A file that someone was trying to send me, in the past I've ran into it and believe it's a form of spyware, probably just the person I was chatting with, but idk...
  • You won't find privacy from apps developed in Australia or by Australians. Period. This is very suspicious and what is secure today may be very quickly made insecure and revelatory retrospectively in one quick patch. Do not trust any company at the mercy of Australian lawmakers. Because even they have no say over the matter if push comes to shove.
  • Not really a con of the app but Session is not really popular.
  • Design is not so cool as compare to signal or others.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Google
Founded: 1998
United States
messages.google.com

Company Information

The Session Technology Foundation
Switzerland
getsession.org

Alternatives

Alternatives

Cwtch

Cwtch

Open Privacy Research Society
Message Plus

Message Plus

Dovi AI
LINE

LINE

Naver

Categories

Categories

Messaging Features

End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)
File Sharing
Groups / Channels
Payments
Search / Filter
Self-Destructing Messages
Stickers / GIFs
Threaded Discussion
Video Conferencing
Voice Calling

Team Chat Features

End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)
File Sharing
Groups / Channels
Payments
Search / Filter
Self-Destructing Messages
Stickers / GIFs
Threaded Discussion
Video Conferencing
Voice Calling

Integrations

Google Pay
Marketing Master IO
Môveo AI
Samsung Messages
Singlebox
SplitCam
WebCatalog Desktop

Integrations

Google Pay
Marketing Master IO
Môveo AI
Samsung Messages
Singlebox
SplitCam
WebCatalog Desktop
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