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Flare

A unofficial Signal GTK client. Source

Description

A unofficial GTK client for the messaging application Signal. This is a very simple application with many features missing compared to the official applications. Link device Send messages Receive messages Reply to a message React to a message Sending and receiving attachments - Encrypted storage Please note that using this application will probably worsen your security compared to using official Signal applications. Use with care when handling sensitive data. Look at the projects README for more information about security. Source

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Native Signal Desktop alternative.

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Rating

Mobile Compatibility: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: maturing

This project has been in development for some time and is somewhere around a 1.0 release. It should work mostly fine.

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Licensing and technical details

License: AGPL-3.0-only Metadata: FSFAP

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

Backend: presage

Programming languages: Rust

Build system: meson

AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.com/Schmiddiii/flare/-/raw/master/data/de.schmidhuberj.Flare.metainfo.xml