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Empathy vs Session

A side-by-side look at Empathy and Session. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Empathy

Empathy

Social & Communications

Empathy is an open source instant messaging client that supports text, voice and video chat. It uses the Telepathy framework and integrates with the GNOME desktop environment. Empathy supports popular protocols like XMPP, IRC, Facebook Messenger, and more.

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Session

Session

Social & Communications

Session is a messaging app that focuses on privacy and security. It offers end-to-end encryption, the ability to delete messages after they are read, and does not store user data on servers.

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