Signal&#x27;s great.<p>I don&#x27;t use it because it doesn&#x27;t sync chats between devices or have a desktop client.<p>Full-on e2e is great, and I&#x27;d use Signal if it supported my use case, but it doesn&#x27;t.  So I use Telegram instead, as a fast, easy-to-use, grandparent-compatible chat client with sane picture and file-transfer support.  The oddball encryption and the fact that it&#x27;s not end-to-end by default is a downside, but it&#x27;s better than plaintext and it&#x27;s actually useful to me, so…<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, Signal is absolutely the right choice for people who don&#x27;t need or care about multi-device syncing and only need a mobile client, or people who want the best security they can get.  I fully support the widespread adoption of top-tier cryptography, including by people who don&#x27;t need to protect their communications from global powers.  But right now Signal is not (yet?) a one-size-fits-all solution.