Interoperability with mobile messaging applications including Signal

Anonymous
2026-01-08T12:55:55Z

Let’s collect some information on applications that we might want to include by default in Tails.

The research we did so far lives in 2 documents:

https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/mobile_messaging/

user research: https://nc.torproject.net/apps/files/files/731566?dir=/UX%20Team/User%20Research/Unsponsored/2023-08%20Tails%20communication%20tools&openfile=true

Data points from user research:

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/user_experience/interviews/daniel/

Hot topics during the training in Mexico (#18922 (closed)) and Brazil (#19103 (closed))

Fundraising: see https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/operations/proposals/-/issues/97

In 2026 we plan to implement either this feature or VPN browser (#19465).