⚡ Fast encrypted chats for the family 🎉
About this app
ArcaneChat is a decentralized and secure instant messenger that is easy to use for friends and family.
• Private. Instant on-boarding without a phone number or other private data.
• Friends & Family: Only chat with people you know. Unknown users cannot message or follow you without mutual consent.
• Flexible. Supports multiple chat profiles and is easy to setup on multiple devices.
• Extensible. Use mini-apps in chats like shopping lists, calendars or games.
• Reliable. Works under bad and adversarial network conditions.
• Secure. Audited End-to-End encryption safe against network and server attacks.
• Sovereign. Can be run with your own e-mail address or server.
ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client and was created with a focus on usability, good user experience, and saving data plan. Also the app usually experiments with new features that eventually might get added to the official Delta Chat client.
Main differences with official Delta Chat client:
• Support for some markdown styles in text messages (bold, italic, strike, etc.)
• Support for displaying Telegram's animated stickers (.tgs files)
• Support for SVG images previews
• Multiple color themes/skins
• It is possible to disable profiles to completely disconnect them saving data/bandwidth
• You can easily see the connection status of all your profiles in the profile switcher
• Extra option to share location for 24 hours
• Clicking on a message with a POI location, will open the POI on the map
• Last-seen status of contacts is shown in your contact list, like in WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.
• Videos are played in loop, useful for short GIF videos
• Verified icon is shown in the chat list for the "Device Messages" and "Saved Messages" chat to avoid fishing attempts by scammer pretending to be the official chats
• Voice messages have more aggressive compression in "worse quality" mode to save data plan
• Automatic download of messages limited to 640KB by default
• Profile's display name is always shown in the app's title bar instead of the name of the app
• For mini-apps developers: there are some extra features in the WebXDC API, check https://github.com/ArcaneChat/android/#webxdc
• Better settings organization with additional "Privacy" section
Licensed under GPL-3.0-only, by Asiel Díaz Benítez.
What's New in v2.53.0
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
Version history
Jun 18, 2026 · 25.2 MB · Android API 21–36 · code 300007464
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
SHA-256 2bb74b59fc555f82102170836a73c19bfeb65a6bdccdbc10a1151a0db87981c0
Jun 18, 2026 · 24.3 MB · Android API 21–36 · code 300007463
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
SHA-256 bf2188f167de74e56f608315ec92b022f2c3477f771876f3a2317882c6008a2f
Jun 18, 2026 · 24.6 MB · Android API 21–36 · code 300007462
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
SHA-256 e39c283986de8b4b2780ee2460e1315cbf59f3e135047c426370a51e850088ad
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- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- Multiple CPU architectures are covered.
- Aligned with the latest Android target SDK expectations.
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