ArcaneChat app for Android review by AndroidFreeware
ArcaneChat is a decentralized and secure messenger app that is compatible with the existing e-mail infrastructure.
Some features at a glance:
- 💬 Reliable instant messaging with multi-profile and multi-device support.
- ⚡️ Sign-up easily using secure fast chatmail servers. You don’t need a phone number or any private data.
- 📧 Alternatively, use your existing classic e-mail address to read your inbox as chats.
- 🎮 Interactive mini-apps in chats for gaming and collaboration.
- 🔒 Audited end-to-end encryption safe against network and server attacks.
ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client and was created with a focus on usability, good user experience, and saving data plan. Also the app usually experiments with new features that eventually might get added to the official Delta Chat client.
Main differences with official Delta Chat client:
- Basic markdown support (bold, italic, strike, etc.)
- Support for displaying Telegrams animated stickers (.tgs files)
- Support for SVG images previews
- Multiple color themes/skins
- It is possible to disable accounts to completely disconnect them to save data/bandwidth
- A videochat instance is set by default
- Replies to your messages in muted groups trigger notifications
- Location streaming feature enabled by default and extra option to share location for 12 hours
- Videos are played in loop, useful for short GIF videos
- Verified icon is shown in the chat list for the Device Messages chat
- Voice messages have more aggressive compression in worse quality mode to save data plan
- Automatic download of messages limited to 640KB by default
- Accounts display name is always shown in the apps title bar instead of the name of the app
- Your avatar is visible to other users in Mailing Lists
- Can be selected as app to open .xdc files
- For mini-apps developers: there are some extra features in the WebXDC API, check https://github.com/ArcaneChat/android/#webxdc
- Better settings organization with additional Privacy section
