Messenger Apps

Chat rooms don’t get the love they once did. AOL Instant Messenger, IRC, and other similar chat services don’t really exist much anymore despite the spike in data-driven messaging services. However, there are still some excellent chat room experiences out there if you know where to find them. There are a ton of messenger apps that allow for group chats. In fact, very nearly all of them do to our knowledge. However, those apps rarely have public chat rooms to join and engage with random people. If all you want is a group messaging, we might recommend our best messenger apps list linked up just below. Otherwise, let’s check out the best chat room apps for Android! Einricht Band Discord Grouvi ICQ MeetMe Telegram Viber Whisper Zello Einricht Price:  Free app Einricht is a popular chat room app similar in scope to apps like Band or Discord. There are a variety of communities for a variety of topics and you can create your own if you want to. Discord likes to cater mostly to gamers, but...

So you want to send a short, instant, text-based dispatch to another human. The options are endless -- iMessage, Slack, Instagram, WhatsApp, Skype, Snapchat -- but their security is variable. Short of whispering words into another person's ear, it's difficult to guarantee that no one else will ever be eavesdropping. For anything you wouldn't want to be seen by your ISP or used against you in a court of law, end-to-end encryption is necessary. It works by giving every user of an app a public key and a private key. Messages sent to you are encrypted with your public key and can only be opened with the private key. To anybody without your private key -- including the app company or a government that comes for the data later -- the text is indecipherable. Even the privacy nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation does not recommend any single messaging app. Now the choice of medium to send confidential information gets a little more complicated -- so much so that even the privac...