Element Messenger Reviews

too bad

Zordan

convoluted and firs not work could not chat, invite users or chat convoluted unexplained naming format, continuos server errors too bad

Great Chat Client, Better than whatsapp

Cris0411

Riot is a really great chat client that supports encryption and anonymity. The cross platform support is great and the fact that the web client doesn't need to be tied to your phone means you can chat whether you have your phone or not.

Best open source messenger

12arcsecs

Riot is the best open source messenger. It has end to end encryption that works across all your devices and Riot is built on the completely open Matrix platform which allows you to run your own server if you don't want to trust another server operator.

Chat (and more) done right

Hans Reiser

It's very rare I get excited about an app anymore. But Riot is both beautiful in its simplicity and exciting in terms of what can be done with it in the future. As of right now, it's the very best way to idle and participate in IRC and Matrix chat rooms that works on mobile and across almost every platform. Notifications and even logging work exactly like they should -- your logs are distributed across the Matrix network, instantly accessible from every device on your account; relevant notifications (mentions, PMs) use Apple's push service. Riot's (and Matrix's) potential is even more exciting: this could one day soon end up being my publishing platform, automation transport, and general distributed database. A big tip for anyone using Riot to idle in rooms: to filter notifications in high traffic rooms to just mentions of your nickname, open the room then tap its title. In that pane, select settings. Then enable "mute notifications".

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Findbugs420

Bring back the last icon

Love what's happening here

boycesterous

I'm just getting into a daily flow with this app and Matrix rooms. Couldn't be happier with its present state, but for this to be something more than a small app they need to smooth out some of the OnBoarding UX.

Horribly Unpolished + Security Concerns

vladgaus

I downloaded this app because of its promise to be a free and open source end-to-end encrypted group messaging app, but have found it to be quite disappointing on a number of fronts. The UI is a mess. Right off the bat there are four (4) navigation tabs: Home, Favourites, People, Rooms. The "Home" tab, however, contains both People and Rooms, rendering those two tabs confusing and redundant. Inside the room itself, there is no easy way to access room settings. Tapping the room's title expands the top bar to display the room's avatar, title, and topic, but no traditiona gear icon to indicate the settings. The user can tap the avatar, title, or topic to edit them, but the tap targets are not well-delineated. The message text inside the rooms does not respect the system font. Unlike the stock messaging app, or other messaging apps I've used, the font Riot uses is by default tiny, and the app offers no setting to change this. Tapping on the most recent message to open up settings moves the encrypted lock icon downward, cutting off at the (random) blank area above the text entry field. The whole action appears sloppy and unrefined. Further, for those security-minded users who sought this app out for the encryption, the app warns you many times that the encryption is still in beta and thus may not be secure. It is commendable that the developer included this pop-up, and hopefully this won't continue to be an issue down the road, but it does render the app somewhat useless, as other unsecure messaging apps do a better job of displaying and managing messages. The privacy policy for the app is also a bit difficult to reconcile with the supposed secure nature of the app. It talks a lot about collection of things inside of chat rooms, (which are supposed to be encrypted), and indeed, after spending time in the app it looks like some things such as changing the topic are not encrypted. (The lock icon that appears next to every message indicating encryption status is unlocked for these messages). This is not secure! Overall, I'm quite disappointed with Riot. Many of the issues I've listed can and hopefully will probably be solved in time as it updates and continues to be polish. The security issues, however, are more troubling. A full-featured, secure messaging app is a necessity in this day and age, and I am really pulling for this app's success, but as of now I cannot recommend it.

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