Wire - Secure Messenger

Messaging for work and personal conversations

Wire is an encrypted messaging and calling app for teams, organizations, and people who need to communicate with them. It supports private and group chats, voice and video calls, and sharing pictures, files, documents, and links. That makes it useful when a work conversation needs to include colleagues as well as outside partners, customers, or suppliers.

Tools for ongoing collaboration

Conversations include practical ways to keep work moving: mentions, replies, reactions, message formatting, and pings to draw someone’s attention. You can arrange chats into folders or archive them, and invite guests through password-protected links or guest rooms. For a quick meeting or a message that is easier to say aloud, Wire also offers calls, video conferences, and audio messages.

Privacy features and multiple devices

Wire uses end-to-end encryption for messages and calls. For sensitive exchanges, it offers self-deleting messages; device fingerprints provide another way to check devices associated with an account. The app can be used on up to eight devices, with messages encrypted separately for each one and conversations kept in sync. History backup is available for moving conversations and shared files to a new phone. These options make Wire more suited to people who want communication tools and privacy controls together than to someone looking only for a basic chat app.

A considered choice for teams

Wire Swiss GmbH lists Wire in the Business category. It has a 3.5 rating from about 36,800 ratings and more than 5 million installs. Those figures offer some context, but the better reason to keep it is its combination of everyday messaging, calls, file sharing, and controls for working with guests. If your contacts already use it, those features can earn a regular place on your phone; if they do not, its usefulness will depend on getting them on board.