I don’t really like Apple, but once in a while they do the right thing. This comes from the App store’s new labels on apps.

Signal just has “Contact info” under the “Data NOT linked to you” category. This is just the phone number + contact discovery.

UPDATE

There’s another post adding telegram here. This is what it looks like:

Pictogram: WhatsApp vs FB Messenger vs Instagram vs Signal vs Snapchat vs WeChat vs Telegram

  • Dreeg OcedamOP
    5•3 years ago

    According to the timeline on Wikipedia :

    • Whisper Systems was founded by Moxie Marlinspike
    • It was acquired by Twitter
    • Moxie left Twitter and founded Open Whisper Systems
    • Moxie and Brian Acton create the Signal foundation (a non profit) with founding by ex-What’sApp founder Brian Acton (What’sApp had already been bought by facebook).

    The foundation is still here and relies on donations, to pay for development and hosting. So what your saying is near the truth (and I wasn’t aware of that actually) but today Signal is a fully independent non-profit.

    • @redjoker
      1•3 years ago

      Thanks, would that explain the change from TextSecure and RedPhone to their merger into Signal?

      • Dreeg OcedamOP
        2•3 years ago

        You can check out the Timeline on Wikipedia, they did change the name to Signal after merging RedPhone and TextSecure.