Signal Private Messenger vs Facebook Messenger

Side-by-side comparison of features, reviews, pricing and more

Signal Private Messenger

Category: Communication Tools
Industries: Business, Education

Pricing

Free

Facebook Messenger

Category: Communication Tools
Industries: Business, Education

Pricing

Free

20M+ Downloads
5/5

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Signal Private Messenger reviews

It's one of the most recognizable secure messenger platform out there. Runs smoothly, without any real problems. It's probably doesn't have much in terms of problems due to it's simplicity. There is no video chat or voice chat so there's a lot to be desired if you want more. Telegram or Element, would be better for those seeking more then text communication.

- Generic Dude

Signal is a great high security messaging tool, everyone should use it. And it's gotten better over time. One small easy way for people to claw back some digital privacy. Capabilities have improved over time. NOTE: if you care about preserving your text history, be sure to read about how to back it up and also save that file to a device off your phone! {Looking at you Secret Service}

- Charlie Fellenbaum

Great app! Awesome to see privacy and security rolled into a single, non-profit messaging app, especially given messaging apps are mostly drop-in replacements for each other. One feature request: the ability to take photos in-app to add to messages (as most messaging apps allow for) rather than having to open up a camera app, take a photo separately, and then append the photo to a message in Signal. Also, the audio on phone calls is frequently quite bad and cuts out... Otherwise, great app!

- Riley DeHaan

Facebook Messenger reviews

Problems with connectivity issues when both parties, over video call, have excellent wi-fi connections: During the call one or both individuals will have difficulties hearing the other. As in, someone is talking but not a word is heard. As this is the only app I know of, so far, that is socially integrated with the ability to share screens, it creates a lot of frustration. This only occurred with the last update, please resolve, we've uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail.

- Kelsey Meyer

I find the app very useful but there's a huge bug to be fixed. I have an android and the issue is with the bubbles interfering with other apps working properly once the bubble has popped up while using the keyboard in the other apps. A message about the app not being optimized for Android pops up. Then I have to restart my phone because I can no longer navigate my other apps due to freezing up. Please fix this.

- Sarah Beth Watson

New problem: group video chats effects don't go away once you turn them off, and 95% of the effects don't work when chosen. If you've scrolled to an earlier conversation, if your phone goes from portrait to landscape it will put you at the recent message in the convo, losing your place and having to start over. New issue: on Android, switching to landscape mode in video chat does not rotate the user's camera. I'm 90 degrees sideways. Happens every time.

- Evan D'Orazio

Pros & cons

Signal Private Messenger

Pros
Designed from the ground up to be nothing but a secure messaging platform
It’s not oddly hacked onto an existing platform
Fully open source.

Cons
Not widely used or known
Requires your phone number for contact discovery
Anyone intent on tracking your internet use can see you’re using Signal
However, they won’t be able to read your messages.

Facebook Messenger

Pros
It makes it faster to chat
It’s like texting, but without the cost
It can be used for collaboration.

Cons
It’s difficult to completely protect your privacy
It can quickly drain the battery of your device
It takes up a lot of space.

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