Whisperfish
Shares rank 44 of 48 messaging apps by recommenders
Unofficial Signal client for SailfishOS, written mostly in Rust, that people say works quite well. Its main caveat is that it can break when Signal changes its protocols.
Unofficial Signal client for SailfishOS, written mostly in Rust, that people say works quite well. Its main caveat is that it can break when Signal changes its protocols.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Native Signal client for SailfishOS
“Technically, you can use Whisperfish on SailfishOS”
Comment from 15 Sep 2026 in “Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs” “for Signal there is a native app, WhisperFish.”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 in “SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes” Works quite well with Signal
“It works quite well - unless Signal decides to change their protocols or kick non-standard clients.”
Comment from 28 Nov 2025 in “Molly: An Improved Signal App” Written mostly in Rust
“it's mostly written in Rust”
Comment from 13 Jun 2026 in “The state of building user interfaces in Rust”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Breaks when Signal changes protocols
“It works quite well - unless Signal decides to change their protocols or kick non-standard clients.”
Comment from 28 Nov 2025 in “Molly: An Improved Signal App”
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4 of the 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Technically, you can use Whisperfish on SailfishOS”
“it's mostly written in Rust”
“It works quite well - unless Signal decides to change their protocols or kick non-standard clients.”
“for Signal there is a native app, WhisperFish.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.