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Which e-mail providers work well with Delta Chat? Quite some :)
January 16, 2022 - In the last couple of months we engaged with comparing around 20 international e-mail providers, based on our earlier research into comparison criteria. These efforts were part of our EPPD project funded by the EU. Read on...

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...
Older posts
May 2020 - Russia's request for Delta Chat user data ... declined.
March 2020 - Shining some light on Delta Chat bots
March 2020 - Pin Chats, Provider Database, Offline Help and more
July 2019 - UX and needfinding report Delta Chat
June 2019 - New stable Delta Chat Android with improved group-profiles, video recording, notifications, ...
March 2019 - Key findings of first Delta Chat UX testing in Kyiv
February 2019 - Play Store, OAuth2 and more from the dev stage
January 2019 - DeltaChat multi-platform releases rolling ...
December 2018 - DeltaChat Ukraine/Needfinding report / 35c3
November 2018 - Delta-XI in Kyiv 2018… a lot of beginnings
October 2018 - Decentralization Unchained
October 2018 - OpenPGPSummit 2018: The ecosystem is moving ...
October 2018 - Delta Chat android-dev state
October 2018 - Delta.Chat desktop update
October 2018 - support.delta.chat now working
September 2018 - Big update on Delta.chat developments
June 2018 - Delta Chat 0.18.0, improved reliability and more
May 2018 - Time to relax: Delta Chat and the GDPR
May 2018 - Delta Chat on HACKarnaval in Paris
May 2018 - Delta Chat not vulnerable to EFAIL
February 2018 - Delta Chat 0.15.0 with Voice Messages, Elevate Festival and more
February 2018 - Delta Chat 0.14.0 - Gossip-And-Setup-Message Version
January 2018 - Delta Chat 0.13.0 - Reply-Encrypted-Release
January 2018 - Delta Chat 0.12.0 - a minor release
December 2017 - Details about the #34C3 Delta Chat session
December 2017 - Sessions on #34C3 and other news
November 2017 - Delta Chat 0.10.0, Semantic versions, APK
November 2017 - Delta Chat 0.9.7 (The archived one), iOS and docs
October 2017 - Delta Chat 0.9.6 - a little bugfix release
October 2017 - Delta Chat 0.9.5 - "Get your data out of there"-Release
October 2017 - Delta Chat on Desktop
August 2017 - Follow our news on friendica network
August 2017 - Delta Chat 0.9.4, Group images, Status, Fixes
July 2017 - Read receipts and Social pressure
June 2017 - Delta Chat v0.9.2 feat. Autocrypt Level 1
June 2017 - New Transifex page
June 2017 - Follow us via RSS or Twitter
June 2017 - Delta Chat v0.9.0 introducing PGP
May 2017 - Delta makes chatting better
May 2017 - Yeah! Delta Chat has a blog now!