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Flare

An 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

Notice

Native Signal Desktop alternative.

Project links: Links to (pages with) screenshots: Screenshots

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

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

 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.

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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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.

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