Have you tried Conversations? You might want to give it a try. On the whole, the user experience is not significantly worse than Signal. With both sides using O

Have you tried Conversations? You might want to give it a try. On the whole, the user experience is not significantly worse than Signal. With both sides using OMEMO encryption, privacy should be about the same. Trade offs: Onboarding is trivially more complex. You have to enter your JID and a password -- registration of a new JID adds one checkbox to that. Contact discovery does not piggyback on phone numbers, so you will have to add JIDs to your address book if you want Conversations to pick them up. Another new XMPP-based app, Zom (https://zom.im/ https://zom.im/) makes some of this easier by letting you automatically register on their hosted XMPP server, locking you into sane default settings, etc. Android app seems still a little buggy, though.