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Comment by themrdarknezz | Hacker News Reader

It's only for android.

He's working on an iOS version too. Plus, it's open source so other people can write clients for other operating systems if they want.

[EDIT]: https://www.facebook.com/surespot/posts/614633905213667

26th June: "Just sent first successful surespot encrypted message from iPhone to Android."

It's open source. Fund it and it'll get ported to other platforms =)

I don't see how hemlis is worse though? It's even better since it's funded.

It's worse because:

  1.) It's not open source
  2.) They want to charge for certain features that are free in surespot.
      (on top of the $100k they're already asking for)
  3.) They wont let you run your own server

#1 and #3 does not make it worse. #2 might not either depending on what that feature is.

For an encryption app? I'd almost argue that not being able to access the source code makes it a non starter. There's no way to guarantee a lack of backdoors otherwise.

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