Session

Send messages, not metadata. No ads or trackers — only private messaging

AppID:	network.loki.messenger
Author:	The Loki Project
License:	GPL-3.0-only
Donation:
InRepoSince:	2020-10-20
LastRepoUpdate:	2024-10-14
LastAppUpdate:	2024-10-14
LastVersion:	1.20.2
Categories:	Internet, Messaging
APK source:	Github
Google Play:	Check if it's there

Session is a new breed of private messenger, built on a unique network of user-operated servers spread all over the world. With no central servers, Session can’t leak or sell your data. And with Session’s private routing protocols, your messages are completely anonymous. No one ever knows who you’re talking to, what you’re saying, or even your IP address.

Fully anonymous account creation: No phone number or email needed to create a Session ID
Decentralised server network: No data breaches, no central point of failure
No metadata logging: Session doesn’t store, track, or log your messaging metadata
IP address protection: Device IP addresses are never exposed to the person you’re talking to or the servers holding your data
Closed groups: Private, end-to-end encrypted group chats for up to 10 people
Secure attachments: Share voice snippets, photos, and files with Session’s secure encryption and privacy protections
Free and open-source: Don’t take our word for it — check Session’s code yourself

Session is free as in free speech, free as in free beer, and free of ads and trackers. Session is built and maintained by the Loki Foundation, Australia’s first privacy tech not-for-profit organisation. Take back your online privacy today — download Session.

Anti-Features:

NonFreeComp (the application includes non-free components):
⇒ The app contains libraries of Google Mobile Services and Firebase.
NonFreeNet (this application promotes/depends a non-Free network service):
⇒ The app connects to Google servers (Firebase/cloud messaging).

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While you can download the APKs here directly, you should preferably use an F-Droid client so the app stays up-to-date on your device. Some clients have this repo enabled by default, e.g. Neo Store, Droid-ify, or, of course, the IzzyOnDroid client by Sunil. With others (like the official client) you'll have to add this repo manually (see the hint on top of the package list for how to do that).

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Version 1.20.2 (2024-10-14)

Android Versions:

Target: 14.0
MinVer: 8.0
ABIs: armeabi-v7a

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124 Libraries detected:

Libraries:

Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
AndroidX Activity (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
Arch (Utility)
helper for other arch dependencies, including JUnit test rules that can be used with LiveData.
AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
Asynclayoutinflater (UI Component)
AndroidX library to inflate layouts asynchronously to avoid jank in the UI.
Autofill (Utility)
improve autofill accuracy via extending hints.
CameraX (Utility)
an addition to Android Jetpack that makes it easier to add camera capabilities.
Cardview (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement the Material Design card pattern with round corners and drop shadows.
Android Support Library collections (Utility)
standalone efficient collections.
Jetpack Compose (Development Framework)
a framework to define UIs programmatically with composable functions that describe its shape and data dependencies.
Concurrent (Utility)
AndroidX library to help move tasks off the main thread with coroutines and take advantage of ListenableFuture.
Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
Coordinatorlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
AndroidX Cursor Adapter (Utility)
static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
Android Support Library Custom View (UI Component)
a module to implement custom views. Part of the Android Support Library.
Documentfile (UI Component)
a library to view a file document.
Drawerlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a Material Design drawer widget.
Dynamicanimation (UI Component)
create smooth animations with a physics-based animation API.
Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
Exifinterface (Utility)
a library to read and write image file EXIF tags.
AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
Androidx Graphics (Utility)
leverages graphics facilities across multiple Android platform releases.
AndroidX GridLayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a grid layout.
AndroidX Inspection (Utility)
Interpolator (UI Component)
AndroidX library to use animation interpolators on older platforms.
androidx.legacy (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
Loader (Utility)
library to load data for your UI that survives configuration changes.
AndroidX Local Broadcast Manager (Utility)
an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: any component may listen events from any other.
AndroidX Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
AndroidX Media3 (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
Paging (UI Component)
AndroidX library to make it easier to load data gradually and gracefully within an app's RecyclerView.
Preference (Utility)
a library to build interactive settings screens without needing to interact with device storage or manage the UI.
Print (Utility)
a library to print photos, docs, and other graphics and images.
ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
ResourceInspection (Development Aid)
AndroidX library to surface the attributes of custom views in Android Studio’s Live Layout Inspector.
Room (Utility)
a persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
Recyclerview (Utility)
display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
Android Activity Saved State (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Slidingpanelayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a sliding pane UI pattern.
Sqlite (Utility)
library that contains abstract interfaces along with basic implementations which can be used to build your own libraries that access SQLite.
Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
Swiperefreshlayout (UI Component)
implemtation of the swipe-to-refresh UI pattern.
Tracing (Utility)
AndroidX library to write trace events to the system trace buffer.
Transition (UI Component)
animates motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.
Vectordrawable (UI Component)
AndroidX library to render vector graphics.
Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
Viewpager (UI Component)
AndroidX library to display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format.
AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 (UI Component)
replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
Jetpack WindowManager Library (Utility)
enables application developers to support new device form factors and multi-window environments. The library provides a common API surface for API versions 14 and later. Especially provides additional functionality on foldable devices.
WorkManager (Utility)
an API that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks that must be run reliably .
Copper (Utility)
a content provider wrapper for reactive queries with Kotlin coroutines Flow or RxJava Observable.
Android Internal APIs (Utility)
Lightweight-Stream-API (Utility)
stream API from Java 8 rewritten on iterators for Java 7 and below.
Android PagerSlidingTabStrip (UI Component)
an interactive indicator to navigate between the different pages of a ViewPager.
Glide (Utility)
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling
Android Image Cropper (Utility)
Image Cropping Library for Android, optimised for Camera / Gallery.
Subsampling Scale Image View (UI Component)
view with pan and zoom gestures for displaying huge images without loss of detail.
Android Circular Progress Button (UI Component)
Android Button which can morph to Circular Progress.
Kryo (Utility)
an object graph serialization framework for Java.
MinLog (Utility)
a tiny Java logging library.
ReflectASM (Utility)
a very small Java library that provides high performance reflection by using code generation.
FasterXML Jackson (Utility)
a fast and compliant streaming JSON parser/writer with a StAX-like API and support for marshalling/unmarshalling POJOs via annotations.
Android-SpinKit (UI Component)
loading animations.
Accompanist (Utility)
a collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose.
Collect (Utility)
helper classes for collections (lists, maps, sets).
Firebase Data TransportⓃ (Utility)
Firebase Data Transport is part of Google’s Firebase SDK.
FlexboxLayout (Utility)
a library project which brings the similar capabilities of CSS Flexible Box Layout Module to Android.
Google Mobile Services© (Development Framework)
Google Mobile Services in terms of the Android library refers to Google Play Services, a proprietary background service and API package for Android devices which is not part of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The library does not contain those services (i.e. it usually requires the Google Framework, often referred to as „GApps“, being installed on the device), but allows an app to communicate with them. Be aware this usually goes along with transferring at least parts of your personal data to the Google network.
Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.
android-smsmms (Utility)
requires 3 permissions: android.permission.SEND_SMS, android.permission.READ_SMS, android.permission.WRITE_SMS
Library for easily sending SMS and MMS for Android devices.
Auto (Utility)
a collection of source code generators for Java.
Google Core Libraries for Java 6+ (Utility)
a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
Error Prone (Utility)
a static analysis tool for Java that catches common programming mistakes at compile-time.
Firebase InstallationsⓃ (Development Aid)
Firebase Installations is a service that allows you to manage the installation of your app on a user's device. The Firebase installations service (FIS) provides a Firebase installation ID (FID) for each installed instance of a Firebase app. Used e.g. for FCM, but also for Analytics.
libphonenumber (Utility)
library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers.
Google Protocol Buffers (Utility)
library that deals with Protocol Buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) – Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
ZXing ('Zebra Crossing') (Utility)
ZXing („zebra crossing“) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library.
Lazysodium for Java (Utility)
a Java implementation of the Libsodium crypto library. For the lazy dev.
RxBinding (Utility)
RxJava binding APIs for Android's UI widgets.
Android-Logger (Utility)
a simple library that will allow Android apps to log both to the internal log, as well as an external file so that users can easily grab logs for the application if you need one from them.
Android SMS/MMS Sending Library (Utility)
library for easily sending SMS and MMS.
RoundedImageView (UI Component)
A fast ImageView (and Drawable) that supports rounded corners (and ovals or circles) – i.e. a helper to display images in a nice way.
FloatingActionButton (UI Component)
Android floating action button which reacts on scrolling events.
Nine Old Androids (Utility)
Android library for using the Honeycomb animation API on all versions of the platform back to 1.0
Opencsv (Utility)
a very simple csv (comma-separated values) parser library for Java.
Material-ish Progress (UI Component)
a material style progress wheel compatible with Android 2.3+.
OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
Phrase (Utility)
an Android string resource templating library.
JNA (Utility)
Java Native Access provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries without writing anything but Java code no JNI or native code is required.
Tooltips (UI Component)
a library to to add a tooltip near any view with ease.
Dagger (Utility)
A fast dependency injector for Android and Java.
RxJava (Utility)
RxJava (Reactive Extensions for the JVM) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.
JavaX Annotation API (Utility)
common annotations for the JavaTM Platform API.
JavaX Dependency Injection (Utility)
specifies a means for obtaining objects in such a way as to maximize reusability, testability and maintainability compared to traditional approaches such as constructors, factories, and service locators (e.g., JNDI). This process, known as dependency injection, is beneficial to most nontrivial applications.
Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
Kotlin Android Extensions Runtime (Utility)
allows to obtain the same experience as with some of these libraries, without having to add any extra code or shipping any additional runtime.
kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
kotlinx-datetime (Utility)
a multiplatform Kotlin library for working with date and time.
kotlin-parcelize (Utility)
Kotlin plugin that provides a Parcelable implementation generator.
Kotlin serialization (Utility)
Kotlin cross-platform / multi-format serialization.
ShortcutBadger (UI Component)
library supporting badge notification like iOS in Samsung, LG, Sony and HTC launchers.
SQLCipher for Android (Utility)
Kovenant (Utility)
an asynchronous library for Kotlin. With extensions for Android, RxJava, JavaFX and much more.
OkHttp okio Framework (Utility)
A modern I/O API for Java to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data.
Apache Commons (Development Framework)
an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components.
Apache Http (Utility)
a toolset of low level Java components focused on HTTP and associated protocols.
Conscrypt (Utility)
a Java Security Provider (JSP) that implements parts of the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) and Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE). It uses BoringSSL to provide cryptographic primitives and Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Java applications on Android and OpenJDK.
EventBus (Utility)
Android optimized event bus that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, Services, etc.
IntelliJ IDEA (Utility)
development helper: integration for the IntelliJ IDEA IDE.
Objenesis (Utility)
a library dedicated to bypass the constructor when creating an object.
Reactive Streams (Utility)
provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure.
AES-GCM-Provider (Utility)
a simple BoringSSL-backed JCE provider for Android projects that wish to have access to 'incremental' AES-GCM primitives.
Signal Android (Utility)
a messaging app for simple private communication with friends.
org.w3c.dom (Utility)
interfaces for the Document Object Model (DOM) which is a component API of the Java API for XML Processing
webrtc-android (Utility)
Android AppRTC demo.
curve25519-java (Utility)
requires 2 permissions: android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
encryption: Pure Java and JNI backed Curve25519 implementation.
WaitingDots (UI Component)
small library that provides... bouncing dots.
StickyListHeaders (UI Component)
library for section headers that stick to the top.
PhotoView (UI Component)
ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.

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