Project Summary
Free, world-wide, private phone calls for iPhone, Android and Desktop. Private messaging coming soon!
Like privacy? Secure your calls for free with Signal. It's that simple.
Signal provides end-to-end encryption for your calls, securing your conversations so that nobody can listen in.
- Signal uses your normal phone number to make and receive calls, so you don't need yet another identifier.
- Signal calls are encrypted end-to-end, but function just like you're used to.
- Free and Open Source, enabling anyone to verify its security by auditing the code.
- Uses wifi or data, not your plan's voice minutes.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 1,059 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2011
ending with its most recent commit 11 days ago
GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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