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Flare
Flare is an unofficial app that lets you chat with your friends on Signal from Linux.
Screenshot
Installation
| Flatpak |
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| Arch Linux (AUR) | [flare](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/flare) |
| Alpine Linux (testing), Postmarket OS (edge) | [flare](https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/testing/x86/flare) |
| Nix | [flare-signal](https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.11&show=flare-signal&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=flare) |
| Self Compile | See [Compilation](https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/flare/-/blob/master/doc/compilation.md). |
Dependencies
Flare uses the libsecret library to store credentials. To use the Flatpak, you must install libsecret as a system package.
Features
Flare is an unofficial app for Signal. It is still in development and doesn't include all the features that the official Signal apps do. More information can be found on its feature roadmap.
Translation
Flare can easily be translated for other languages, as it uses gettext. Please consider contributing translations using Weblate, as an alternative you can also open merge requests and I will notify you if updates are necessary. Thanks to Weblate for free hosting and all the translators for their great work keeping the translations up-to-date.
Contributing
This project is open to contributions. Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for more information. If you plan to contribute code, please also review the developer documentation.
Code of Conduct
This project follows GNOME's Code of Conduct.
Security
To my knowledge, all data this application uses (messages, contacts, linking credentials, ...) are stored encrypted in ~/.local/share/flare/ (for Flatpak, this is ~/.var/app/de.schmidhuberj.Flare/; may be different depending on the distribution and your settings).
This application stores data using sqlite3 together with sqlcipher. The passphrase for the encryption is stored and retrieved using libsecret.
Even though things are encrypted, I do not guarantee for the security of your data. This application will probably worsen the security compared to official Signal products. Use this application with care when handling sensitive data.