Molly: A More Secure Signal

Molly is a hardened fork of Signal on Android with some extra usability and security features. This video review unpacks what features Molly adds, what my experience using it has been, pros/cons, and a lot more! Definitely a neat open source project!

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00:00 What is Molly & Why Does it Exist?
02:06 Experience Using Molly
03:56 Who's it For?
05:18 Molly-FOSS
06:40 Final thoughts on Molly
#signal #signalmessenger #molly

[techlore]

Have you used Molly? Why or why not? Share below I'd love to hear! Including some bullets here for big fans of the video:
Enjoy the video friends!

[gauravae]

Thanks to your video a few weeks ago, I installed Molly on my tablet. Finally I have all my messaging apps on mobile, desktop AND tablet. Thanks!

[dudeh]

Definitely can't wait for Signal to have local database encryption, especially on Desktop client. Phone client local database encryption on Android and iOS/iPadOS would be great as well! I salute Molly but kinda wish their contributions were just put into Signal proper... were their pull requests rejected or something?

[jhf]

love it how Henry responds to every comment keep it up!

[askvra]

The most selling point about Molly is that it supports multi devices which means if you have more than 2 smartphones, you can use it on each one. No remember if Signal supports this feature yet. I have used Molly about year now.

[OcteractSG]

We need this for Desktop. Desktop Signal is where we're really concerned about the security of the message database. I suppose QubesOS is a solution, but that's one heck of a solution.

[Joey-pisq]

Molly is the best, been using it for 3years now

[redeyesdrogon]

This sounds great. Can't wait to see how this develops more in the future

[tiagotiagot]

You can set Signal to automatically lock and require your phone unlock pin (on itself, not the phone's own GUI) to unlock it again after a time out that can be customized. Automatic chat backups has also been a feature on Signal for quite a while (I dunno what are the details for the encryption used for the backup, but it does require password or something).

[WSS_the_OG]

I'm just sick of chasing my tail now, when it comes to privacy. Is this one really that much better?

[Gottadosomepushups]

Been using only for couple of years now and it is great. I would say its even better than single in terms of connectivity. Only problem with it I would say the updates are quite late, which is expected from a fork.

[DearFox]

It sucks so much that Signal prohibited publishing their applications in f-droid and in general they are against third-party clients.
This is the only reason I don’t really like Signal. (immediately after forcing the use of the phone number, they seemed to say that they would remove it, but I’m not sure if they have already done this)

[chanpasadopolska]

There was plan for nods independent from signal, so that Molly users would be able to connect between each other even when infrastructure of Signal would fail. How is it going?

[utubepunk]

Hi. I've been using Molly, but after some time the app turns off & I won't get new massage modifications. Still watching but I hope you cover Unified Push & FCM. I guess I need to set one of those up.

[Imblitzyboi]

Now i can say i use molly at a party 🤣🤣🤣

[sereneturmoil]

I was wondering what the account transfer process looks like if you were to try to return to Signal after using Molly? Is the process possible and relatively straightforward?

[Locationary]

Would love your take on keet chat privacy app.

[PavTheSlav]

Does this fork let you chat with Signal users who don't have Molly?

[websurfer]

Great video! Interesting app. I'm wondering if Molly can only communicate with other Molly/Signal users or if it can also communicate with those using IOS or Google messenger?

[imrandom]

Interesting name wondering what that messenger will be used for if it's completely anonymus lol