Deltachat is amazing

Deltachat, a messaging application I’ve talked about here before, is adding features at break neck speed and is now, from my point of view, on par with a lot of the other secure, open source and/or proprietary messaging applications most people have heard of.

Their latest update adds the ability to edit and even delete messages you’ve already sent, functions I was dearly missing. Comparing to my usage of Signal at home or GChat at work, editing a message is probably the next thing I do 95% of the time after having sent my last message. I know I’ll do it with this blog post too.

With these lastest addition, it’s now clear to me how Deltachat uses email as a transport protocol and builds on it by adding a number of functionalities that were never seen with emails before. So you can forget it uses your mailbox at all. It does use your email as an identity if your email providers allows it.

Yes, it’s another chat app. But this one does not need you to create a new account.