signal.org
Signal
Who runs Signal, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest encrypted messaging app alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Wire
Measured from Signal’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Signal01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Signal
Signal signal.org
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Wikidata: privacy-focused encrypted messaging app
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Signal tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Signal’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Signal
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Signal, thumbs down if it isn’t.
1 of the 60 sites closest to Signal matches.
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Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Signal’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Signal uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Signal adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 151 ms
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://signal.org/assets/javascripts/vendor/jquery-3.7.1.min.js
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=5CDC9F59F979D40BC9364506CB06E0795AD4487F53BA791A3…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630a49c9b4ff54-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms64370964
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS zita.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=E0za3YlmgyiE3wck1TFwdW1j0dbRUDsSNh9VBjr…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=E9NOI9LjgLb5GEyCWbHTr8yumWFOdOuCtFkCeQ_GhVM
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- Google Workspace 7/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on signal.org 6/20
- Zendesk · not on signal.org 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on signal.org 5/20
- Stripe 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on signal.org 4/20
- nginx · not on signal.org 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on signal.org 4/20
- HubSpot · not on signal.org 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- Apple Business · not on signal.org 3/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on signal.org 3/20