Best encrypt messages

Good morning to all, I need a recommendation for secure messages. I keep reading that signal is good but there are other.

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I use Signal. I am happy enough with it to pay them voluntarily.

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I second this. it works well.

If you don’t want reliance on servers, simpleX.

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SimpleX seems harsh on my batteries. I swotched to session and it seems better and more refined.

Signal is the default recommendation IMO, as long as you do not have a specific reason to not want it.

What is your constraints/requirements? If you want to convert non-techy friends/family ease of getting somebody to use it is a pretty important consideration

it’s for my fiancee, it’s more for us sending pictures. she uses what’s app I use it on my work and every time it rings after hours I think is work related so I don’t answer quickly.

Thanks for your recommendations I will verify first before I tell her to install.

For normies, Signal would be best. I got a quite a bit of family members using it. Its easy and streamlined enough.

The only rough spot is the initial registration.

If she have been using WhatsApp Signal will be familiar.

One thing of note about signal that I forgot about. The iOS version does not have a working backup solution. You can transfer to a new phone and bring old data along, but no way to backup/restore from a lost phone. At least last time I checked

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E-mail + GPG

I use element