It&#x27;s .. the same thing. Now, bear with me: I don&#x27;t say that it doesn&#x27;t offer something over Telegram (most probably: Far better privacy&#x2F;security), but it&#x27;s a centralized service, hosted by a single entity, using your phone number as &#x27;identity&#x27;. Ignore the first points, but the latter is so broken, Signal could be the most usable and glorious app (&quot;Everything just works&quot;) on the planet and I&#x27;d still hate that idea.<p>Right now, Telegram suffers from the same faults (phone number = identity, closed&#x2F;central server), but excels in usability and client availability. Signal is - for me, right here - worse. And I _should_ be part of Signal&#x27;s target group.