Breaches, never
Server breaches, where everyone’s most private conversations spill out onto the public Internet forever, are
a nightmare for any team. Quiet simply doesn’t have servers. No servers, no breaches.
No phone numbers
Phone numbers should be private. While Signal and WhatsApp demand a phone number and expose it to everyone
you talk to and whoever might access their phone, Quiet never even asks for a phone number.
Better location privacy
Signal and nearly every other messaging app expose your identity’s IP address to a server, revealing your
location. Quiet doesn’t, and this matters! Location data can be used to harm you in surprising ways.
More than just encryption
Apps like Signal & WhatsApp do encrypt messages, but they still leak metadata, such as who you talk to
and when, to whoever runs the server. Quiet uses Tor to protect that too.
Open source
Unlike Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, and the rest, Quiet is completely open source. This means there is no vendor
lock-in. Developers can fork Quiet and create interoperable versions.
We make it look easy
Creating the same great group chat experience of Slack or Discord on a peer-to-peer network built on Tor is
super hard. But Quiet works well, both on laptops and phones.