Our blog post announcing crowdfunding!

Read about:
- what makes SImpleX Network different from all other messengers.
- today's trends that grow it.
- why messengers didn't converge to a single protocol, and how we plan to achieve it: SimpleX is not just a messenger, it's a network to build on.

https://simplex.chat/blog/20260819-simplex-chat-crowdfunding.html

SimpleX Chat has grown to ~480,000 users!

It's been growing more than 2x every year over the last 3 years.

Now you can get a stake in SimpleX Chat and benefit from the company growth.

If you invest $500+, we offer a SimpleX public name for your channel or business as a perk:
- for 10 years if you invest until 17:00 UTC tomorrow
- for 5 years for early bird investors
- for 3 years after that.

Learn more on Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/simplexchat - how we plan to make it profitable, terms, etc.

SimpleX Chat crowdfunding is live!

We are building the first messaging network that can't identify you – a decentralized, open-source network where only you decide who can connect to you and which servers to use, and nobody can know who you talk to.

Yesterday SimpleX got to 1M+ downloads on Play Store (3M+ total). Thank you!

We invite you to invest in SimpleX Chat and become part of building private and secure communications for all people.

We are launching public SimpleX names - a name nobody can take from you.

You can try a test SimpleX name with your channel or business in v7-beta.

Read more in the blog post: https://simplex.chat/blog/20260722-simplex-public-names.html

We published the whitepaper about Community Credits - a closed loop prepaid payment system to fund servers and client application in decentralized SimpleX network.

Alain Brenzikoher presented it at Web3 Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhW8AuoRgxg

About Community Credits: https://simplex.chat/credits/

Whitepaper: https://simplex.chat/credits/whitepaper.pdf

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 for your incredible support of SimpleX network in 2025:
- to users for over 2,000,000 app downloads and thousands of groups.
- to enthusiasts for hundreds of community servers.
- to businesses/projects using SimpleX Chat for customer/user support.
- to developers for SimpleX integrations and libraries.
- 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!

A big news for SimpleX Chat app security:

Android APKs released on GitHub and F-Droid are now 100% reproducible!

It means that you can verify that the app is secure, even if the download site was hacked.

From v6.5 our release process is:

1) build Android apps on two independent systems and confirm they are 100% identical;
2) cryptographically "sign" them;
3) add signature files to the release page.

v6.5 beta.3 release: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/releases/tag/v6.5.0-beta.3

v6.4.1 of SimpleX Chat released!

- you can now review new members before they join ("knocking").
- new UX for connecting to other users!
- set default time to delete messages.
- app build security: Linux app builds are now reproducible (verified by our and Flux teams) and other build security improvements.

Read more: https://simplex.chat/blog/20250729-simplex-chat-v6-4-1-welcome-contacts-protect-groups-app-security.html

v6.3 of SimpleX Chat is released:

- preventing spam and abuse in public groups.
- group improvements: mention other members, improved performance.
- better chat navigation: organize chats into lists and jump to found and forwarded messages.
- privacy and security improvements: chat retention period and private media file names.

Also: server builds are now reproducible!

Read more: https://simplex.chat/blog/20250308-simplex-chat-v6-3-new-user-experience-safety-in-public-groups.html