SimpleX Chat

Happy New Year! Thank you all for your incredible support of SimpleX network in 2025: - to users for over 2,000,000 app downloads since launch. - to enthusiasts for hundreds of community hosted servers. - to group owners for thousands of groups. - to businesses and projects using SimpleX Chat for customer and user support. - to developers who created integrations and libraries for SimpleX network. - to all who donated, and especially to Vitalik Buterin for his game-changing donation of 128ETH. 2026 will be great for privacy and for SimpleX network!

A big news for SimpleX Chat privacy and security: Android apps released via GitHub and F-Droid are now 100% reproducible! It means that you can easily verify that the app is secure, even if the download site was hacked. From v6.5 our release process is: 1) build Android apps on two independent machines and confirm they are 100% identical; 2) cryptographically "sign" them; 3) add signature files to the release page so you can verify. v6.5 beta.3 release:

GitHub

Release v6.5.0-beta.3 · simplex-chat/simplex-chat

New in v6.5-beta.3: fix opening new contact request on remote desktop. fix remote desktop failing to receive new events after error. iOS: fix dial...

Server and Linux desktop builds were already reproducible, and Android APKs are now as secure. Anyone can check it themselves - no coding needed, just follow our simple guide to verify the app is genuine or run the build yourself:

Verify and reproduce builds