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This overview of messenger comparisons is unique in this form and divided into the following sections:

A daily updated overview of all messengers with exactly the criteria that are important to you will be hard to find, because every comparison has a focus and is created from a certain point of view. Some overviews are missing (consciously?) certain but essential messengers, are partly incomplete or contain errors. Therefore, it is best to always look at several overviews and critically question the content. The messenger comparisons included here are at least in the upper range in terms of content quality.

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German Comparisons

Preview Description and source
Preview Security and sustainability of messengers, e-mail, SMS & Co.
Even with classic communication channels (letter, telephone, fax, SMS) in comparison!
BUT: As of November 2016, which is why the current encryption protocol OMEMO is missing from Jabber(XMPP) and Matrix is also not listed.
To the source: Digitale Gesellschaft; Schweiz (external)
Preview 22 Messenger in comparison
Overview, where the different criteria can be individually evaluated with points , so that one receives a ranking “suitable for itself”.
But: the criterion ‘Self-destructing messages’ is unfortunately not also seen as a security risk (-> pseudo security ) but positive - and the lack of the function is rated as negative. Better would be no evaluation of this criterion or a setting whether being in front should be evaluated positively or negatively.
To the source: orcas.de (external)
Preview Messenger-Matrix (german and english)
Overview, about the different technical features of various messengers.
To the source: Kuketz (external)
Also highly recommended: „Die verrückte Welt der Messenger“ (external)
Preview Messenger matrix with focus on security
BUT: Not only the existence of a security audit is evaluated, but apparently also the date (without supplementary notes or without reference to the program version).
To the source: Piratenpartei (external)
Preview Comparison of the big 7 (open source) messenger systems (german and english)
BUT: At least regarding OMEMO(XMPP) and Matrix no longer up to date, as of 2016.
PDF (ca. 11 MB!) to download: >> herer <<
To the original source: Goldbug (external)
Extract: wikibooks.org (external)
Preview Alternatives to WhatsApp and Threema
To the source: digitalcourage.de (external)
Preview Open source messengers (GitHub)
To the source: GitHub (external)
Preview General Messenger List
To the source: Wikipedia (external)
Preview Messenger protocols in detail
To the source: hashbang.dot (external - but Google-Docs!)

English Comparisons

Preview Description and source
Preview Comparison of the big 7 (open source) messenger systems (german and english)
BUT: At least regarding OMEMO(XMPP) and Matrix no longer up to date, as of 2016.
PDF (ca. 11 MB!) to download: >> herer <<
To the original source: Goldbug (external)
Extract: wikibooks.org (external)
Preview Comparison of Instant Messengers
Very good and up-to-date overview. Grouping in …
-> open & decentralized,
-> open & centralized and
-> closed systems.

To the source: eylenburg.github.io (external)
Preview Score Card for Mobile Crypto Chat Applications
Comparison of Goldbug/Smoke with other systems
To the source: Goldbug/Smoke (external)
Preview Secure messaging apps comparison
Seems to be not quite up to date (at Matrix Riot is still listed instead of Element; the chat standard (XMPP) is completely missing)
When “secure” messengers are mentioned, it should always be questioned what is actually meant by security.
To the source: securemessagingapps.com (external)
Preview Information on secure messaging apps
When “secure” messengers are mentioned, it should always be questioned what is actually meant by security.
To the source: securechatguide.org (external)
Preview Messenger Comparison Table
To the source: divestos.org (external)
Preview Various messengers with advantages and disadvantages
To the source: fairphone.com (external)
<< VIDEO >> SimpleX vs Session
To the source: simplifiedprivacy.com (external)
Note: In some respects, the information presented is peculiar. Session is a replacement for Telegram (the mention of ‘blockchain’ should not be missing) whereas SimpleX replaces Signal. At least that is wrong, because Session is a Signal fork with avoidance of metadata through its - in the meantime - own onion network.

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Further discussions/comparisons:

Various open source messengers are described here (but not directly compared with each other):

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