SimpleX Chat apps are 4 years old today!

- 2M+ app downloads
- 300-500K active users (estimated from store statistics - no accounts or any user IDs)
- 1000+ network routers

Huge thank you to everybody who made this journey possible: @Seth For Privacy, @Privacy Guides, @nprofile1q..., @Techlore @jack and everybody else who used, promoted and supported SimpleX Network.

Coming soon:
- channels
- new UX
- non-profit governance of SimpleX Network



The first release announcement: https://simplex.chat/blog/20220308-simplex-chat-mobile-apps.html

How SimpleX Network Consortium will work: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/tree/master/rfcs#readme

Why we are building SimpleX Network: https://simplex.chat/why/

You can create a SimpleX Chat chat-bot with 17 lines of JS code using the new Node.js library



Beta version: https://npmjs.com/package/simplex-chat/v/6.5.0-beta.4.4

Source code: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/tree/master/packages/simplex-chat-nodejs

To run this example with Node.js:

npm i [email protected]

node ./node_modules/simplex-chat/examples/squaring-bot-readme.js

Happy New Year!

Thank you all for your incredible support of SimpleX network in 2025:
- to users for over 2,000,000 app downloads since launch.
- to enthusiasts for hundreds of community hosted servers.
- to group owners for thousands of groups.
- to businesses and projects using SimpleX Chat for customer and user support.
- to developers who created integrations and libraries for SimpleX network.
- to all who donated, and especially to Vitalik Buterin
for his game-changing donation of 128ETH.

2026 will be great for privacy and for SimpleX network!