Delta Chat je nový četovací messenger, který posílá zprávy přes e-mail, pokud možno zašifrované metodou Autocrypt. Netřeba žádného nového účtu. Pro Delta Chat prostě použijete ten, který už máte pro svůj e-mail.
Delta Chatem můžete napsat na jakýkoli e-mail i v případě, že příjemce Delta Chat nepoužívá. Není nutné aby příjemce instaloval stejnou aplikaci jako vy, jak vyžadují ostatní četovací systémy.
By default, Delta Chat shows all e-mails.
At “Settings -> Chats & Media -> Show Classic E-Mails”, you can change this. You have these options:
Ano. Kromě běžného textu jsou všechny e-mailové přílohy zobrazeny jako samostatné zprávy. V odchozích zprávách jsou přílohy použity samočinně.
For performance, images are optimized and sent at a smaller size by default, but you can send it as a “file” to preserve the original.
You can easily work with additional accounts on Delta Chat mobile and desktop clients by clicking either:
You may also wish to learn how to add accounts to multiple devices.
Profilový obrázek lze zvolit v nastavení. Když napíšeš svému kontaktu, nebo přidáš nový vyfocením QR kódu, tyto kontakty automaticky uvidí tvůj profilový obrázek.
Contacts who don’t use Delta Chat do not see the profile picture (however, of course, they can install Delta Chat :)
Z důvodu soukromí nikdo nevidí tvůj profilový obrázek dokud jim nenapíšeš.
Profilový obrázek není posílán s každou zprávou, ale dostatečně často k tomu aby tvé kontakty zvuobdrželi obrázek i když začnou používat nové zařízení.
Yes, incoming HTML messages come with a “Show full message” button. Outgoing messages always use plain text.
Podobně jako ostatní e-mailové programy, např. Thunderbird nebo Outlook, program potřebuje heslo k tomu aby mohl posílat e-maily. Samozřejmě, že heslo je uloženo pouze na tvém přístroji. Heslo je přenášeno pouze při přihlašení k e-mailovému serveru, který má i beztak přístup k tvým e-mailům.
Poskytovatelé e-mailu s podporou OAuth2, např. “gmail.com” či “yandex.ru”, nepotřebují při přihlašování tvé heslo. V takovém případě je uložen pouze vygenerovaný přístupový kód.
Delta Chat má otevřený zdrojový kód, ze kterého lze ověřit, že program s osobními daty zachází bezpečně. Jsme rádi za každou odezvu, která udělá Delta Chat bezpečnější pro všechny.
Dle užívaného operačního systému můžeš být dotázán na udělení povolení této aplikaci. Zde je co Delta Chat dělá s těmito povoleními:
Use these tools to organize your chats and keep everything in its place:
Pinned chats always stay atop of the chat list. You can use them to access your most loved chats quickly or temporarily to not forget about things.
Mute chats if you do not want to get notifications for them. Muted chats stay in place and you can also pin a muted chat.
Archive chats if you do not want to see them in your chat list any longer. Archived chats remain accessible above the chat list or via search.
When an archived chat gets a new message, unless muted, it will pop out of the archive and back into your chat list. Muted chats stay archived until you unarchive them manually.
To archive or pin a chat, long tap (Android), use the chat’s menu (Android/Desktop) or swipe to the left (iOS); to mute a chat, use the chat’s menu (Android/Desktop) or the chat’s profile (iOS).
You can turn on “disappearing messages” in the settings of a chat, at the top right of the chat window, by selecting a time span between 1 minute and 5 weeks.
Until the setting is turned off again, each chat member’s Delta Chat app takes care of deleting the messages after the selected time span. The time span begins when the receiver first sees the message in Delta Chat. The messages are deleted both in each email account on the server, and in the app itself.
Note that you can rely on disappearing messages only as long as you trust your chat partners; malicious chat partners can take photos, or otherwise save, copy or forward messages before deletion.
Apart from that, if one chat partner uninstalls Delta Chat, the messages will not get deleted from their email account. They will most likely also not be decryptable anymore (as long as they were encrypted in the first place).
As you use an e-mail account for Delta Chat, how you can delete your account depends on your e-mail provider. We don’t have any control over your e-mail account, so unfortunately we can’t help you with that.
If you want to keep the account, but uninstall Delta Chat, it is recommended to leave any group chat before uninstalling Delta Chat.
Buď se odeber ze seznamu členů a nebo vymaž celý skupinový hovor. K opětovnému připojení v budoucnu požádej nějakého člena skupiny o znovupřidání.
Jiná možnost je “Umlčení” skupiny, což znamená nadále přijímat a také posílat zprávy, ale nebudeš dostávat upozrnění na nově příchozí zprávy.
By default, Delta Chat stores all messages locally on your device. If you e.g. want to save storage space at your mail provider, you can configure Delta Chat to delete old already-received messages on the server automatically. They still remain on your device until you delete them there, too.
To turn it on, go to Delete Old Messages → Delete Messages from Server in the “Chats and Media” settings. You can set a timeframe between “At once” and “After 1 year”. All e-mails received by Delta Chat will be deleted from the server after this timeframe.
Note that if you use Delta Chat on more than one device, you need to leave the message on the server with a sufficient timeframe so that the other device(s) can download them, too.
Autocrypt is used for automatically
establishing end-to-end encryption with contacts and group chats.
Autocrypt uses a limited and secure subset of the OpenPGP standard.
End-to-End encrypted messages are marked with a padlock
.
Secure-Join protocols
are used for establishing chats with guaranteed end-to-end encryption
which protects against network attacks and compromised servers.
Chats marked with a green checkmark
guarantee end-to-end encrypted messages.
All end-to-end encrypted messages carry a padlock:
End-to-end encryption is guaranteed if there is a green checkmark next to the chat title:
Meet your chat partner outside Delta Chat, preferably in person but a second channel like a video chat or a different messenger is fine as well. Perform the following QR show/scan procedure with your chat partner. One of you is the “Inviter”, the other is the “Joiner”.
Inviter side:
Group invitation: Tap the chat group title to see its member list, and select “QR Invite code”. Share the QR image with the other side either in person or through a second channel.
Direct 1:1 chat invitation:
Tap the QR Code icon 
on the Delta Chat app main screen –
on Desktop the QR Icon is in the left-side sandwich menu.
Share the QR image with the other side either in person or through a second channel.
Joiner side:
Tap the QR Code icon
on the Delta Chat app main screen –
on Desktop the QR Icon is in the left-side sandwich menu.
Choose “SCAN QR CODE” and scan the QR Code that you see from your chat partner in a second channel.
Tap “OK”
Both Inviter and Joiner:
Wait while Secure-Join network messages are exchanged between both devices.
If both devices are online,
both sides will eventually see a (group or direct) chat with a green checkmark
next to the title.
If one of the devices is offline, the green checkmarks will only appear later when the device is internet-connected again and the Secure-Join network protocol completed.
Congratulations!
You now will automatically use guaranteed end-to-end encryption
with this contact and both of you can add each other to green-checkmarked groups
,
thereby automatically spreading guaranteed end-to-end encryption among its members.
Chat titles with green checkmarks
mean that all messages in the chat will be end-to-end encrypted
and can not be read or altered by compromised e-mail servers or Internet providers.
Joining green-checkmarked group chats
safely spreads everybody’s encryption information (and green checkmarks)
in a manner that guarantees end-to-end encryption in the group and among members.
Contact profiles with green checkmarks
mean that messaging a contact is currently guaranteed to be end-to-end encrypted.
Every green-checkmarked contact either did a direct QR-scan with you
or was introduced by a another green-checkmarked contact.
Introductions happen automatically when adding members to groups.
Whoever adds a contact to a green-checkmarked group becomes an introducer
to those members who didn’t yet know about the added contact.
In a contact profile you can tap on the “Introduced by …” text repeatedly
until you get to the one with whom you directly did a QR-scan.
Note that in a contact profile you may see and tap introducers but there is no green checkmark in the profile title. This usually means that the contact “sent a message from another device”.
For more in-depth discussion of “guaranteed end-to-end encryption” please see Secure-Join protocols and specifically read about “Verified Groups”, the technical term of what is called here “green-checkmarked” or “guaranteed end-to-end encrypted” chats.
Your chat with a contact lost guaranteed end-to-end encryption. The green checkmark was removed for this chat and contact when you see this warning. If you find the sudden drop of guaranteed end-to-end encryption surprising for this contact then don’t accept the warning! Instead check with your contact through a second channel like a video call, other messenger or a phone call, to find out what happened.
If your contact actually caused the drop of guaranteed end-to-end encryption please see the next paragraphs for common reasons and their mitigations. Regardless, all other green-checkmarked chats remain guaranteed end-to-end encrypted even if the contact is a member there.
Your contact is using Delta Chat on a second device (phone or laptop)
If they have another device with a Delta Chat app running, they should remove the account from the new device and add it as a second device as described here. As soon as they message you afterwards, the warning will be gone and guaranteed encryption is established with both devices of your contact.
Your contact reinstalled Delta Chat using their old account login
If they have a backup file, they should remove the account from the new device and rather import the backup file to re-create their account. As soon as they message you afterwards, the warning will be gone and guaranteed encryption is re-established for this contact.
If they don’t have a backup file, it’s best to perform a QR scan with your chat partner to re-establish guaranteed end-to-end encryption.
Your contact sent a mail through a webmail interface or another e-mail app and will get back to using Delta Chat soon again.
If you are sure that the contact sometimes uses webmail, or another mail app lacking end-to-end encryption, then you may accept the warning. As soon as your contact uses Delta Chat again, guaranteed end-to-end encryption will be automatically re-established.
Your contact stopped using Delta Chat entirely
Sometimes remaining in contact is more important than end-to-end encryption. “Transport Layer Encryption” (TLS) may still meaningfully protect the confidentiality of your messages between your device and the e-mail server. But without end-to-end encryption you and your contact are trusting your e-mail server to not read or manipulate your messages, and to not hand them to third parties.
In any case, you can not do much else than accept the warning. Please also remove the contact from any active green-checkmarked group which you can find in “Shared chats” in the Contact profile. This spares your contact from getting “unreadable” messages.
If the contact removed Delta Chat because of buggy or undesirable behaviour, please consider posting to our support forum to help us identify and address common problems. Thanks!
Yes.
When we talk about an “end-to-end encrypted message” we always mean a whole message is encrypted, including all the attachments and attachment metadata such as filenames.
Yes, Delta Chat uses a secure subset of OpenPGP and only displays a padlock security indicator on a message if the whole message is properly encrypted and signed. For example, “Detached signatures” are not treated as secure.
OpenPGP is not insecure by itself. Most publically discussed OpenPGP security problems actually stem from bad usability or bad implementations of tools or apps (or both). It is particularly important to distinguish between OpenPGP, the IETF encryption standard, and GnuPG (GPG), a command line tool implementing OpenPGP. Many public critiques of OpenPGP actually discuss GnuPG which Delta Chat has never used. Delta Chat rather uses the OpenPGP Rust implementation rPGP, available as an independent “pgp” package, and security-audited in 2019.
We aim, along with other OpenPGP implementors, to further improve security characteristics by implementing the new IETF OpenPGP Crypto-Refresh which was thankfully adopted in summer 2023.
Yes, we are following efforts like MLS or Saltpack but adopting them would mean breaking end-to-end encryption interoperability with all other e-mail apps that typically support OpenPGP encryption. So it would not be a light decision to take and there must be tangible improvements for users.
Delta Chat takes a holistic “usable security” approach and works with a wide range of activist groupings as well as renowned researchers such as TeamUSEC to improve actual user outcomes against security threats. The wire protocol and standard for establishing end-to-end encryption is only one part of “user outcomes”, see also our answers to device-seizure and message-metadata questions.
No, Delta Chat never was vulnerable to EFAIL because its OpenPGP implementation rPGP uses Modification Detection Code when encrypting messages and returns an error if the Modification Detection Code is incorrect.
Delta Chat also never was vulnerable to the “Direct Exfiltration” EFAIL attack
because it only decrypts multipart/encrypted messages
which contain exactly one encrypted and signed part,
as defined by the Autocrypt Level 1 specification.
Even if your messages are not guaranteed to be end-to-end encrypted, they are still protected from Internet providers like cell or cable companies. However, your and your recipient’s e-mail providers may read, analyze or even modify your messages, including any attachments, if they are not end-to-end encrypted.
Delta Chat by default uses strict TLS encryption which secures connections between your device and your e-mail provider. All of Delta Chat’s TLS-handling has been independently security audited. Moreover, the connection between your and the recipient’s e-mail provider will typically be transport-encrypted as well. If the involved e-mail servers support MTA-STS then transport encryption will be enforced between e-mail providers in which case Delta Chat communications will never be exposed in cleartext to the Internet even if the message was not end-to-end encrypted.
Note that maintaining guaranteed end-to-end encryption on top of TLS encryption provides pervasive safety between your and the recipient’s devices. Not even your e-mail or Internet provider will be able to read or modify your messages.
Delta Chat protects most message metadata by putting the following information into the end-to-end encrypted part of messages:
Chat-Disposition-Notification-To)Ephemeral-Timer)Chat-Group-Member-Removed, Chat-Group-Member-AddedSecure-Join header containing secure join commandsE-Mail servers do not get access to this protected metadata but they do see the message date as well as the message size, and, more importantly, the sender and receiver addresses. E-mail servers need receiver addresses to route and deliver messages to recipient’s devices.
Both for protecting against metadata-collecting e-mail servers as well as against the threat of device seizure we recommend to use a Delta Chat optimized e-mail server instance to create pseudonymous temporary accounts through QR-code scans. Note that Delta Chat apps on all platforms support multiple accounts so you can easily use action-specific “1-week” or “1-month” accounts next to your “main” account with the knowledge that all temporary account data, along with all metadata, will be deleted. Moreover, if a device is seized then contacts using temporary e-mail accounts can not be identified easily, as compared to messengers which reveal phone numbers in chat groups which in turn are often associated with legal identities.
You may check the end-to-end encryption status manually in the “Encryption” dialog (user profile on Android/iOS or right-click a user’s chat-list item on desktop). Delta Chat shows two fingerprints there. If the same fingerprints appear on your own and your contact’s device, the connection is safe.
A little padlock in a message bubble denotes that the message was properly end-to-end encrypted from the given sender. If there is no padlock, the message was not properly end-to-end encrypted most likely because the sender uses an app or webmail interface without support for end-to-end–encryption.
If a contact uses a non-Autocrypt e-mail app, all messages involving this contact (in a group or 1:1 chat) will not be end-to-end encrypted, and thus not show a “padlock” with messages. Note that even if your contacts use Delta Chat on their account, they might also use a non-Autocrypt e-mail app on that account which then may cause intermittently unencrypted messages. Replying unencrypted to unencrypted messages is mandated by Autocrypt to prevent unreadable messages on the side of your contacts and their non-Autocrypt e-mail app.
If you need a safely end-to-end encrypted chat with a contact who is using their account both with Delta Chat and non-Autocrypt apps (e.g. webmail), it’s best to setup guaranteed end-to-end encryption with them and then create a guaranteed end-to-end encrypted group chat with you two as members. In this group chat all messages will be end-to-end encrypted even if the direct chat between you two has a “… sent a message from another device” warning.
The best way to ensure every message is end-to-end encrypted, and metadata deleted as quickly as possible is using chats with guaranteed end-to-end encryption and turning on disappearing messages.
Guaranteed end-to-end encrypted chats protect against MITM attacks and turning on disappearing messages deletes the messages on the server after a user-configured time.
If you don’t need a longer-lived copy of your messages on the server, you can also turn on “delete messages from server automatically”.
No, Delta Chat doesn’t support Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS). This means that if your Delta Chat private decryption key is leaked, and someone has collected your prior in-transit messages, they will be able to decrypt and read them using the leaked decryption key.
Note, however, that if anyone obtains to your decryption keys, they will typically also be able to obtain your messages, irrespective if Perfect Forward Secrecy is in place or not. The typical real-world situation for leaked decryption keys is device seizure which we discuss in our answer on metadata and device seizure.
It is possible that Delta Chat evolves to support Perfect Forward Secrecy, because OpenPGP is just a container for encrypted messages but encryption key management (and thus key rotation or key “ratcheting”) could be organized in flexible ways. See Seqouia’s PFS prototype for existing experiments in the OpenPGP implementor community.
It depends on what is important to you. Delta Chat does not support PFS like Signal does but it provides guaranteed end-to-end encrypted chats that are safe against compromised servers or corrupted networks. Signal and most other PFS-supporting messengers do not provide a practical scheme for protecting chat groups from network attacks which are arguably more worrysome than a potential attacker who seizes your phone and private encryption setup but somehow not your messages, yet has a full record of all past encrypted messages.
In any case, Delta Chat’s end-to-end encryption uses a secure subset of OpenPGP which has been independently security-audited.
Yes. The best way is to send an Autocrypt Setup Message from the other e-mail client. Look for something like Start Autocrypt Setup Transfer in the settings of the other client and follow the instructions shown there.
Alternatively, you can import the key manually in “Settings -> Advanced settings -> Import secret keys”. Caution: Make sure the key is not protected by a password, or remove the password beforehand.
If you don’t have a key or don’t even know you would need one - don’t worry: Delta Chat generates keys as needed, you don’t have to hit a button for it.
Nejpravděpodobnější příčinou jsou zašifrované klíče, nebo klíče s heslem. Takové klíče Delta Chat nepodporuje. Můžeš odstranit šifrování nebo heslo a zkusit to znovu. Pokud je potřeba použít zaheslovaný klíč vytvoř / použij zástupnou adresua a pak přidej nový Delta Chat účet s tímto klíčem.
Another common error is having the wrong file ending.
Use the ASCII armored format and an .asc file ending.
Delta Chat podporuje běžné formáty OpenPGP klíčů, nicméně neočekáváme, že soukromé klíče ze všech aplikací budou fungovat. To není cíl, a ve skutečnosti věttšina nových uživatelů Delta Chatu nemá žádný stávající klíč. Přesto se snažíme podporovat soukromé klíče z co nejvíce možných zdrojů.
Odstranění hesla ze soukromého klíče závisí na programu ze kterého PGP klíč pochází. Enigmail umí nastavit prázdnou hodnotu hesla v okně Key Management. U GnuPG lze to samé nastavit z příkazové řádky. Pro ostatní programy by mělo jít nalézt řešení na Interentu.
Yes. Delta Chat 1.36 comes with a new, experimental function for using the same account on different devices:
Make sure both devices are on the same Wi-Fi or network
On the first device, go to Settings → Add Second Device, unlock the screen if needed and wait a moment until a QR code is shown
On the second device, install Delta Chat
On the second device, start Delta Chat, select Add as Second Device, and scan the QR code from the old device
Transfer should start after a few seconds and during transfer both devices will show the progress. Wait until it is finished on both devices.
In contrast to many other messengers, after successful transfer, both devices are completely independent. One device is not needed for the other to work.
Double-check both devices are in the same Wi-Fi or network
On Windows, go to Control Panel / Network and Internet and make sure, Private Network is selected as “Network profile type” (after transfer, you can change back to the original value)
Your system might have a “personal firewall”, which is known to cause problems (especially on Windows). Disable the personal firewall for Delta Chat on both ends and try again
Guest Networks may not allow devices to communicate with each other. If possible, use a non-guest network.
Ensure there is enough storage on the destination device
If transfer started, make sure, the devices stay active and do not fall asleep. Do not exit Delta Chat. (we try hard to make the app work in background, but systems tend to kill apps, unfortunately)
Delta Chat is already logged in on the destination device? You can use multiple accounts per device, just add another account
If you still have problems or if you cannot scan a QR code try the manual transfer described below
This method is only recommended if “Add Second Device” as described above does not work.
Posílat si kopii zpráv zaručuje, že zprávy se zobrazí na všech současně nastavených zařízeních. Pokud máš několik zařízení a nezapneš tuto funkci, uvidíš pouze příchozí zprávy, a zprávy odeslané jen z právě používaného přístroje. Ty odeslané z ostatních zařízení neuvidíš.
Kopie přijdou nejdříve do Příchozí složky, a pak jsou samočinně přesunuty do složky DeltaChat; ne do složky Odeslané. Do složky Odeslané se nepřesouvá nikdy nic. protože by to vyžadovalo přenášet zprávu dvakrát (jednou poslat přes SMTP, a jednou pro složku Odeslané přes IMAP).
Výchozí hodnota nastavení pro zasílání si kopií je “Ne”.
Jediný důvod sledovat složku s odeslanými zprávami je používání jiného e-mailového programu (např. Thunderbird) spolu s Delta Chatem, a chtít z tohoto programu také psát zprávy do hovorů Delta Chatu.
Nicméně doporučujeme používat Delta Chat Desktop Client; ten lze stáhnout z get.delta.chat. Možnost sledování složky “Odeslané” může být v budoucnu zrušena. Byla totiž vytvořena v době, kdy Delta Chat Desktop nebyl dostupný na všech platformách.
Někteří lidé užívají Delta Chat jako jediný e-mailový program, a chtějí užívat složku Příchozí / Inbox pro všechny zprávy i místo složky DeltaChat. Pokud zrušíš “Sleduj složku DeltaChat”, zruš také “přesouvat zprávy do složky DeltaChat”. Jinak hrozí, že mazání zpráv či nastavení na několika zařízeních nebude správně fungovat.
In Delta Chat, you can share webxdc apps, attachments with an .xdc file
extension. They can do very different things, and make Delta Chat a truly
extendable messenger.
We are very grateful for feedback on these features - do you want to share your ideas? Join the Forum to contribute. You may conveniently login via Delta Chat and a QR code scan, another rather stable experiment we run on the side (sic!).
https://meet.jit.si/$ROOM. The $ROOM variable will be a random value;
this way, you will have a new random jitsi room every time you call someone.Toto je pokusné nastavení pro některé uživatele, kteří používají vlastní pravidla pro třídění e-mailu na serveru. Ne všichni poskytovatelé toto nabízí, ale někteří umožňují samočinně přesouvat všechny e-maily s hlavičkou “Chat-Version” do složky DeltaChat. To je něco co za běžných okolností dělá Delta Chat sám.
Enabling “Only Fetch from DeltaChat folder” makes sense if you have both:
In this case, Delta Chat doesn’t need to watch the Inbox, and it’s enough to only watch the DeltaChat folder.
Change your address in “Settings - Password and Account” and enter the password of your new account (and if necessary, server settings). You will get an information notice about the fact that you are moving to a new address. An additional notice will also show up in your “Device messages” chat.
If possible, let your old e-mail provider forward all messages to your new address.
Tell your contacts that you changed your address. Writing to guaranteed end-to-end encrypted chats and groups, will make them notice your move automatically and they will continue chatting with you using your new address.
Note that Delta Chat will not retrieve messages anymore from your old e-mail provider. If you didn’t configure your e-mail provider to forward messages (step 2.) only those contacts to whom you sent a message in a guaranteed end-to-end encrypted chat will send messages to your new address.
To learn more about this the details behind this, read our blogpost on it.
The Delta Chat project underwent four independent security audits in the last years:
In 2019, Include Security analyzed Delta Chat’s PGP and RSA libraries. It found no critical issues, but two high-severity issues that we subsequently fixed. It also revealed one medium-severity and some less severe issues, but there was no way to exploit these vulnerabilities in the Delta Chat implementation. Some of them we nevertheless fixed since the audit was concluded. You can read the full report here.
In 2020, Include Security analyzed Delta Chat’s Rust core, IMAP, SMTP, and TLS libraries. It did not find any critical or high-severity issues. The report raised a few medium-severity weaknesses - they are no threat to Delta Chat users on their own because they depend on the environment in which Delta Chat is used. For usability and compatibility reasons, we can not mitigate all of them and decided to provide security recommendations to threatened users. You can read the full report here.
Beginning 2023, Cure53 analyzed both the transport encryption of Delta Chat’s network connections and a reproducible mail server setup as recommended on this site. You can read more about the audit on our blog or read the full report here.
Beginning 2023, we fixed security and privacy issues with the “web apps shared in a chat” feature, related to failures of sandboxing especially with Chromium. We subsequently got an independent security audit from Cure53 and all issues found were fixed in the 1.36 app series released in April 2023. See here for the full background story on end-to-end security in the web.
Delta Chat does not receive any Venture Capital and is not indebted, and under no pressure to produce huge profits, or to sell users and their friends and family to advertisers (or worse). We rather use public funding sources, so far from EU and US origins, to help our efforts in instigating a decentralized and diverse chat messaging eco-system based on Free and Open-Source community developments.
Concretely, Delta Chat developments have so far been funded from these sources:
The NEXTLEAP EU project funded the research and implementation of verified groups and setup contact protocols in 2017 and 2018 and also helped to integrate end-to-end Encryption through Autocrypt.
The Open Technology Fund gave us a first 2018/2019 grant (~$200K) during which we majorly improved the Android app and released a first Desktop app beta version, and which moreover moored our feature developments in UX research in human rights contexts, see our concluding Needfinding and UX report. The second 2019/2020 grant (~$300K) helped us to release Delta/iOS versions, to convert our core library to Rust, and to provide new features for all platforms.
The NLnet foundation granted in 2019/2020 EUR 46K for completing Rust/Python bindings and instigating a Chat-bot eco-system.
In 2021 we received further EU funding for two Next-Generation-Internet proposals, namely for EPPD - e-mail provider portability directory (~97K EUR) and AEAP - email address porting (~90K EUR) which resulted in better multi-account support, improved QR-code contact and group setups and many networking improvements on all platforms.
From End 2021 till March 2023 we received Internet Freedom funding (500K USD) from the U.S. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). This funding supported our long-running goals to make Delta Chat more usable and compatible with a wide range of e-mail servers world-wide, and more resilient and secure in places often affected by internet censorship and shutdowns.
Beginning 2023 we got accepted in the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Entrust program for our “Private Decentralized Apps” proposals. Exact amount is to be determined (around 100K EUR). This funding supports further developments of webxdc “apps shared in a chat”.
Sometimes we receive one-time donations from private individuals. For example, in 2021 a generous individual bank-wired us 4K EUR with the subject “keep up the good developments!”. 💜 We use such money to fund development gatherings or to care for ad-hoc expenses that can not easily be predicted for, or reimbursed from, public funding grants. Receiving more donations also helps us to become more independent and long-term viable as a contributor community.
Velice významnou pomocí je práce expertů a nadšenců prováděná bez nároku na honorář či za minimální odměnu ve prospěch veřejného dobra. Je třeba zdůraznit, že bez nich by se Delta Chat nepřibližoval ani zdaleka současnému stavu.
The monetary funding mentioned above is mostly organized by merlinux GmbH in Freiburg (Germany), and is distributed to more than a dozen contributors world-wide.
Please see Delta Chat Contribution channels for both monetary and and other contribution possibilities.