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Privacy Without Compromise

Communicate with friends and family in complete confidentiality – no data snooping, no metadata collection, no compromises.

A Strong Foundation for Your Communication

All our Threema solutions are unique in their implementation, yet they are built on the same strong foundation. The three aspects of trust, transparency, and technology form the core of our philosophy and provide the basis for secure, reliable, and future-proof communication solutions.

Trust

Secure communication starts with trust. Threema protects your content through consistent end-to-end encryption – without requiring any personal information such as a phone number or email address. The principle of data minimization is at the core of our approach. Millions of users worldwide, both private individuals and businesses, rely on this security every day.

Transparency

If you promise security, you have to prove it. Threema is open source, undergoes regular independent audits, and fully complies with all GDPR requirements. Instead of tracking or hidden data usage in our applications, we rely on consistent data minimization and clear processes, ensuring full transparency.

Technology

Modern, powerful, and versatile: Threema relies on future-proof technology to enable stable, cross-platform communication – whether for private use, within organizations, or fully self-hosted. With Active Directory and MDM integration, APIs, and a flexible infrastructure, Threema seamlessly adapts to any environment. Secure communication made in Switzerland.

A Statement for the Protection of Your Digital Identity

Threema is the secure messaging app for individuals that consistently focuses on data protection and anonymity. Every message, call, and shared file is protected by proven open-source encryption technology. With Threema’s verification levels, you can see how trustworthy your contact is – so you know who you’re dealing with even without providing personal information.

  • Maximum control over your digital identity: you decide how much you want to disclose

  • Your conversations are guaranteed to be visible only to you and your contacts – never to us or third parties

  • No collection of user data, no ads

  • Anonymous use without providing a phone number or email address thanks to a randomly generated Threema ID

Security und Privacy by Design

Get a truly trustworthy messenger without hidden agendas or backdoors: chats, contact lists, and groups are managed in a decentralized manner directly on the involved devices – no data is stored on a server. This way, your communication remains private and fully under your control at all times.

  • End-to-end encrypted voice, video, and group calls

  • Open source

  • No sharing of your messages with AI

  • Regular security audits conducted through external experts

  • Perfect Forward Secrecy prevents past messages from being decrypted even if a key is stolen

  • No advertising, no data trading, no hidden interests

  • 100% Swiss made and GDPR-compliant

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Communicate securely – anywhere and at any time

Enjoy all the features of a modern communication app in an environment that respects and protects your privacy. Threema Private can be used as a mobile app and on the desktop.

  • Secure instant messaging

  • Group chats

  • Voice, video, and group calls

  • Voice messages

  • Exchange of photos, videos, and files

  • Create polls

  • Hide private chats and protect them with a passcode

  • Edit and delete sent messages

THREEMA PRIVATE

Protect your privacy – don’t pay with your data!

In a world full of digital surveillance, we create a safe haven for your personal communication. Since 2012, we have been committed to privacy, with a clear mission: your digital conversations belong only to you, today and in the future.

Why You Should Choose Threema

Discover the benefits of independent and secure communication – with Threema Private, the compelling alternative to WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram.

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Threema Private

  • Privacy by Design: no phone number or email address required

  • End-to-end encryption of all messages

  • Open source

  • Business solution available

  • Transparency report

  • Funding: app users

  • Jurisdiction: Switzerland

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WhatsApp

  • Phone number required

  • End-to-end encryption of all messages

  • Not open source

  • No business solution available [1]

  • Transparency report [2]

  • Funding: Meta/advertising

  • Jurisdiction: USA [3]

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Signal

  • Phone number required

  • End-to-end encryption of all messages

  • Open source

  • No business solution available

  • No transparency report [4]

  • Funding: donations

  • Jurisdiction: USA [3]

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Telegram

  • Phone number required

  • No end-to-end encryption of all messages [5]

  • Open source

  • No business solution available

  • No transparency report [6]

  • Funding: Pavel Durov / subscriptions / advertising

  • Jurisdiction: unclear

  1. WhatsApp Business isn’t intended for internal corporate communication but for the communication between small businesses and their customers.

  2. There’s no transparency report specifically for WhatsApp, but parent company Meta publishes a company-wide one.

  3. The CLOUD Act entitles US authorities to access data from US IT service providers (even if the data is not stored in the US).

  4. Signal’s transparency report seems to be grossly incomplete and/or badly out of date.

  5. Telegram: End-to-end encryption can be optionally enabled in single chats, but this feature is disabled by default and neither available in group chats nor compatible with parallel use of the service on multiple devices.

  6. Telegram's regional transparency report is only accessible via the Telegram app and does, for example, not provide any results for Switzerland, which is highly dubious given the size of Telegram’s user base.

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Benefits

  • The world’s best-selling secure messenger

  • Can be used anonymously, comprehensive end-to-end encryption for maximum security of sensitive data

  • Zero-knowledge architecture for the highest security requirements

  • Swiss quality that effectively protects your privacy

  • Trustworthy and verifiable: open source with reproducible builds

  • We finance ourselves exclusively through app revenue, not by selling your data

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