← Back to all Apps

Flare

Chat with your friends on Signal Source

Description

Flare is an unofficial app that lets you chat with your friends on Signal from Linux. It is still in development and doesn't include as many features as the official Signal applications.

  • Translators: Description of Flare in metainfo: Features
  • Linking device
  • Sending messages
  • Receiving messages
  • Replying to a message
  • Reacting to a message
  • Attachments
  • Encrypted storage
  • Notifications, optionally in the background

More features are planned, blocked, or not-planned. Consult the README for more information about them.

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

Notice

Native Signal Desktop alternative, needs signal-cli or an Android/iOS app as primary signal client. See this toot for signal-cli paring instructions.

Project links: Links to (pages with) screenshots:

Rating

Mobile Fit: 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.

Features

Connectivity: This app requires internet on first-run, e.g., to download content necessary for operation. This app works better with a continous internet connection, but does not require it.

 Every feature of this app can be accessed via touch screen, no mouse or keyboard needed.

 This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

Packaging

Is this app packaged for my distribution?

green: current and packaged,
red: packaged, but not current, ratings and other details may not apply.

Packaging status

Powered by Repology


Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://github.com/flathub/de.schmidhuberj.Flare

Build and install your own flatpak: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flathub/de.schmidhuberj.Flare/master/de.schmidhuberj.Flare.json

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

Find similar apps

By Service: Signal

By Category: chat

By FreeDesktop-(Additional-)Category: GTK GNOME Network Chat InstantMessaging

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/schmiddi-on-mobile/flare/-/raw/master/data/de.schmidhuberj.Flare.metainfo.xml