Compare: SimpleX Chat vs Signal
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# Privacy Criteria
| ✓ | No KYC required +2 | ✓ |
| ✓ | No account required +2 | ✗ |
| ✓ | No registration needed +2 | ✗ |
| ✓ | Tor mirror available +2 | ✗ |
| ✗ | Onion-only service +3 | ✗ |
| ✗ | I2P support +1 | ✗ |
| ✓ | Works without JavaScript +1 | ✓ |
| ✓ | No logs policy +1 | ✓ |
| ✓ | Privacy-friendly contact (SimpleX/Matrix/PGP) +2 | ✗ |
| ✗ | Outside Five Eyes jurisdiction +1 | ✗ |
| ✗ | Public PGP key available +2 | ✗ |
| ✗ | Warrant canary published +2 | ✗ |
| ✗ | Transparency report available +1 | ✓ |
| ✗ | Accepts Monero payments +3 | ✗ |
| ✗ | Accepts Bitcoin payments +1 | ✗ |
| ✓ | End-to-end encryption by default +2 | ✓ |
| ✓ | Metadata protection +1 | ✓ |
| ✗ | Phone registration required -2 | ✓ |
| ✗ | Only basic contact methods -1 | ✓ |
| ✗ | Forced app, no web version -1 | ✓ |
# Tech Criteria
| ✓ | No trackers +2 | ✓ |
| ✓ | No Google Fonts +1 | ✓ |
| ✓ | Open source +2 | ✓ |
| ✗ | Structured data +1 | ✓ |
| ✓ | Strong TLS configuration +1 | ✓ |
| ✓ | No tracking cookies +1 | ✓ |
| ✓ | No reCAPTCHA +1 | ✓ |
| ✓ | Self-hostable +3 | ✗ |
| ✓ | Security audit completed +2 | ✓ |
| ✓ | Reproducible builds +2 | ✓ |
| ✗ | Bug bounty program +1 | ✓ |
| ✗ | DNSSEC enabled +1 | ✓ |
| ✓ | Strong security headers +1 | ✓ |
| ✓ | Good documentation +1 | ✓ |
| ✓ | Multi-language support +1 | ✓ |
# LLM Criteria
| ✗ | JSON-LD structured data +2 | ✗ |
| ✓ | Semantic HTML +1 | ✓ |
| ✗ | Machine-readable API +2 | ✗ |
| ✗ | WebMCP support +3 | ✗ |
| ✓ | Crawlable content +1 | ✓ |
| ✗ | Structured data markup +1 | ✓ |