Hike vs Signal app rankings: Here are the reasons as to why users choose Signal over Hike

Hike Messenger is also known as Hike Sticker Chat and it is an Indian freeware, cross-platform instant messaging, Voice over IP application which was launched on 12 December 2012 by Kavin Bharti Mittal and currently it is now owned by Hike Private Limited. Hike app can work offline through SMS and has multi-platform support. Continue reading this article to know about the signal app and WhatsApp alternative.

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Hike vs Signal

When comparing the Signal vs Hike, most of the communities and forums show that Signal is used by most people. When searched for queries like which ones are the best messaging apps for Android? Signal is on 2nd rank while Hike is ranked 29th in the most used app's ranking. Some of the main reason as to why people choose Signal are mentioned below:

• Audio recording - Yes
• DIY integrations - Yes
• Decentralized - No
• End-to-end encryption - Yes
• Mediaimages / audio / video / files / contacts / GIFs / location
• Open Source - Yes
• Open source - All
• Platforms - Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
• Proprietary Dependencies - Yes
• Publisher -  Open Whisper Systems
• VoIP - Yes

Whatsapp Privacy Policy

The latest notification that is showing up on everybody's WhatsApp which tells that the terms and policies are being updated. The end date to accept these new terms is by 8th of February 8. All the users who do not accept these new terms and agreements will not be able to access their WhatsApp accounts. 

Whatsapp is owned by Facebook and the newly updated policy states that the app may share your information with its family of companies in order to facilitate, support and integrate their activities and improve their services. So this means that any type of information that WhatsApp automatically collects from you is going to be shared with Facebook. All this will also include the mobile phone number and basic information of the users.

Other than all the things mentioned above, WhatsApp also collects and shares user activity, like how much you use WhatsApp, the features you use, your profile photo, your status and ‘about’ information, device-level information like what device you use, your mobile network, IP address, among others, precise location information from your device, but with the permission of the user. Some of the alternatives for Whatsapp are as follows:

• Telegram Messenger.
• Signal Private Messenger.
• Discord.
• Bridgefy.
• Kik.
• Snapchat.
• Skype.
• Keybase.

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