Messengers
Jami privacy rating
Peer-to-peer encrypted messenger from the GNU project for text, audio and video calls, screen sharing and conferences, with apps for desktop and mobile.
Summary
Jami scores 75 out of 100 (grade B) on the messengers criteria. It meets 5 of 8 criteria: open source, no ads or data sales, end-to-end encrypted by default, no phone number needed and decentralized. It partly meets no trackers or telemetry and metadata protection. It does not meet independent audit. It is based in Canada: Five Eyes member.
Score 75 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
The apps have no telemetry and Exodus finds no trackers, but the website runs self-hosted Matomo analytics by default.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Free software funded by Savoir-faire Linux and donations, with no ads and no personal data collected.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.
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Yes
End-to-end encrypted by default Weight 3 of 3
Are all chats, including groups, end-to-end encrypted by default?
All connections are end-to-end encrypted with perfect forward secrecy.
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Yes
No phone number needed Weight 2 of 3
Can an account be created without a phone number?
Accounts are key pairs created on the device; no email or phone number is required.
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Partial
Metadata protection Weight 2 of 3
Does the service minimize who-talks-to-whom metadata (for example sealed sender or no user identifiers)?
No central server holds contact lists, but peers are located through a public DHT that exposes device announcements and IP addresses to other nodes.
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Yes
Decentralized Weight 1 of 3
Can people run their own server or talk peer to peer?
Peer to peer over a distributed hash table, with optional self-hosted account management servers.