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Updates on Accounts, Downloads, Group-Joins, Search and more

November 17, 2021 - Yip, Delta Chat 1.24 is out for Android and iOS: Read on...

New data protection officer appointed and refined privacy policies

November 10, 2021 - The Delta Chat privacy policy situation just got even better! We appointed Prof. Dr. Fabian Schmieder, professor for data protection and media law of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover and coauthor of the standard work Betrieblicher Datenschutz (Operational data protection), who is now our data protection officer. He has been helping us for a long time and is not only a great advisor but also a brilliant pianist!:) Read on...

What Makes a Good E-Mail Provider? Let's find out :)

September 11, 2021 - What provider should I use for Delta Chat? We hear this question often but it’s not so easy to answer. Everyone has different needs and situations. So how to go about this? Read on...

Chat Requests, Multi-Account, Connectivity

August 24, 2021 - Delta Chat 1.22 is out! This post explains the most important changes in this release. Read on...

E-mail compatibility releases

May 05, 2021 - The current releases make interoperability with classic e-mail land even smoother, targeting several long-awaited things. Read on...

Delta Chat iOS is catching up!

February 04, 2021 - Delta Chat iOS is available since about a year now 🎉 — while being nicely usable and working, compared to the more mature Android and Desktop versions, some UI-features were just missing from our iOS app. Note that all platforms share the same, stable Rust-core so you can expect the same core functionality and stability that our longer evolving Android and Desktop apps enjoy. Read on...

Swipe to Reply and other Android News

November 05, 2020 - Cold November? No! After many weeks of development and testing, Android releases have shipped, starting the new release series. Read on...

Final report on UX developments 2019/2020

August 01, 2020 - Our final Delta Chat UX summary report is out, summarizing our developments which address real world needs from people engaged in human rights missions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan and Hong Kong. This work was thankfully supported by the OpenTechFund and would otherwise not have been possible. Read on...

Releases, Disappearing messages and Video chats

July 30, 2020 - Summer is there - and also a new round of Delta Chat releases. Read on...

Delta Chat 1.10 is rolling out

June 24, 2020 - New Delta chat releases are out now or coming soon - here is an overview about what you can expect from Delta Chat 1.10: Read on...

Delta Features for May - ECC Keys, Autodelete Messages, Scan QR Codes With Desktop

May 27, 2020 - New Delta chat releases! Thanks to all the early testers and all the work that went into the new releases on Android, iOS and Desktop. Here is an overview of what to expect: Read on...

Russia's request for Delta Chat user data ... declined.

May 01, 2020 - On April 27th we received a letter from Roskomnadzor, the russian supervisor of communications and information technology. They requested us to provide access to Delta Chat user data and register with their state-run provider registry. We declined for the simple reason that Delta Chat developers have no access to user data whatsoever. Read on...