Molly (Signal fork)

“Molly backups stopped working (probably due to lack of updates)”

“But I prefer it over the risk of downloading an APK from signal's website”

“Having Molly alongside the official Signal app was always the solution”

“Unified Push, which works flawlessly on Molly”

“Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable”

“I run Molly in the Owner profile without Play Services and it's been solid.”

“Molly's UnifiedPush support works much better.”

“If you want reliable push notifications without FCM for Signal then you need the Molly fork of Signal”

“using either FCM or the Molly fork with UnifiedPush”

“I use Molly as a secondary device (my tablet) but I never had an issue where it didn't work for weeks.”

“Molly is a security-hardened Signal client only on Android for people unfamiliar.”

“Use molly.im instead which has solved these problems.”

“Molly is going to add a Monero integration while also having various other advantages.”

“the community does push better options such as Molly/Signal”

“I use Molly but it's only on Android”

“Perhaps Molly could serve as an alternative client for you?”

“Molly, the FOSS Android Signal client supports this configuration.”

“only builds like Molly include no binary blobs of Google”

“Allows you to avoid the insecure Google push notifications and keeps the proprietary Signal client more honest”

“randomly lose its connection to signals servers and then fail to backup”

“is better than Signal Android”

“see the Molly project, you don't have to use Signal's servers”

“We have good relationships with a bunch of legitimate privacy and security projects including QubesOS, secureblue, Molly”

“Using Molly to get cross-device Signal support works pretty well”

“relying on an unofficial fork controlled by one guy that can update itself anytime”

“The Molly app is the only way I am able to use Signal on multiple devices.”

“It has been reliable for me in that role since the Pixel Tab came out”

“It still does not support it while Molly does.”

“I just tried it on a 2nd phone and it seems to work.”

“The killer feature for me is that molly-im also supports UnifiedPush for notifications”

“it doesn't have the GCM crap and hence works on de-googlified custom ROMs as well”

“molly.im was a lifesaver for me.. trying to move a family member from VIBER to SIGNAL”

“You know signal is open source, right? That's why Molly exists.”

“Overnight it lost the device registration and will not contact the servers to re-register.”

“It has various improvements and you can also use your private signal server.”

“This app's killer feature for me is that it's actually available on F-Droid”

“it does receive notifications over the websocket it keeps open in the background”

“Molly forces them to start a brute force attack against the password you gave Molly.”

“it's worth noting that they've formally endorsed Molly”

“fixes/improves several of those security regressions (and adds new security features, like wiping RAM on db lock)”