Night Drop
app.nightdrop
android AGPL-3.0-or-later kind 32267
Anonymous, end-to-end encrypted 1:1 chat over Tor
latest release
0.2.0
main
released 2026-10-18 18:58 UTC
download apk
NightDrop-arm64-v8a.apk · 47.1 MB
+1 more variants — full list in the assets card below
✓ signed
cert d08b8e64…
about
- description
- Night Drop is a privacy-first 1:1 messenger. Like a night deposit box: every message is a sealed envelope, dropped for one person only, opened by no one in between. * Anonymous identities only — no phone number, no email, no account. Your identity is a keypair held on your device. * End-to-end encryption with the Signal Double Ratchet: only the sender and receiver can read a message. * Peer-to-peer over Tor by default. There is no clearnet path — the only network egress is the Tor network. * Local-first storage: messages live on your device. Optional server storage is opt-in, capped at 24 hours, and shows a persistent warning in the chat while active. * An untrusted store-and-forward relay carries offline delivery only. Any relay ever holds nothing but opaque, already-encrypted blobs under unlinkable handles — no keys, no plaintext, no identities, no logs. * Authorization before the first message: a stranger cannot message you until you approve them (scan a pre-authorized QR, or exchange a short code whose secret words block a man-in-the-middle). * Safety-number verification (scan or compare) to confirm no one is in the middle. * User-owned encrypted backups: the recovery password is generated on your device, shown once, and never sent to any server. Lose it and the backup is unrecoverable — by design. * No analytics, no crash reporters, no ad SDKs, no Google Play Services, and no third-party push service. * No automatic update check on F-Droid installs. Other builds (sideloaded, or the desktop AppImage, which have no update channel of their own) ask the Night Drop onion site over Tor, at most once a day, whether a newer version exists — and only tell you. The app never installs anything, and does not hold the permission that would let it. Night Drop is free software (AGPL-3.0-or-later) and built to be reproducible: anyone can rebuild the release from source and confirm it matches, byte for byte.
- publisher
- 78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d
- first seen
- 2026-09-23T09:29:44.338905+00:00
- last event
- 2026-10-18 18:58 UTC
- install
- zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client
- topics
- #messaging
source & build
- repository
- https://github.com/nightdropapp/nightdrop
- arch flags
- android-arm64-v8a
- manifest
- missing
releases (kind 30063)
8 releases indexed; latest 0.2.0.
| version | channel | released | event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2.0 | main | 2026-10-18 18:58 UTC | ba51f22f… |
| 0.1.29 | main | 2026-10-08 01:00 UTC | 1e08daa6… |
| 0.1.28 | main | 2026-10-07 00:17 UTC | 785ee92c… |
| 0.1.27 | main | 2026-10-03 22:19 UTC | 27fe3e19… |
| 0.1.26 | main | 2026-09-30 19:37 UTC | f1612648… |
| 0.1.24 | main | 2026-09-28 07:42 UTC | ec7f805e… |
| 0.1.25 | main | 2026-09-27 07:45 UTC | fe0c4d42… |
| 0.1.22 | main | 2026-09-22 02:58 UTC | 53fdf37f… |
assets & verification
Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.
0.2.0 — NightDrop-arm64-v8a.apk
- sha256
- 547f496e4abd87dddd5d84c136a5ebeb4ad44bd4cf1a025cd947a7d7ee0e87e4
- size
- 47.1 MB
- archs
- android-arm64-v8a
- version code
- 4162
- apk cert sha256
- d08b8e6408aff4f43556c05b819fef25afdd6912be7a678b0552468a4582c0ac
- download
- NightDrop-arm64-v8a.apk
0.2.0 — NightDrop.apk
- sha256
- 9ef2d60380d4f35a5a24b85712864bd6be0d51f2274f4c57126b7b2ab11c4064
- size
- 125.0 MB
- archs
- android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86_64
- version code
- 4164
- apk cert sha256
- d08b8e6408aff4f43556c05b819fef25afdd6912be7a678b0552468a4582c0ac
- download
- NightDrop.apk
0.1.29 — NightDrop-arm64-v8a.apk
- sha256
- eaa58e8c1a2f13d5f56c059766ba92bc78c7b9f7e9d375864d4ddab410797dde
- size
- 46.6 MB
- archs
- android-arm64-v8a
- version code
- 4152
- apk cert sha256
- d08b8e6408aff4f43556c05b819fef25afdd6912be7a678b0552468a4582c0ac
- download
- NightDrop-arm64-v8a.apk
0.1.28 — NightDrop-arm64-v8a.apk
- sha256
- d5610f7b15436f56fa6850aa352f93217fa9e601436af2561a6577c3b55200c2
- size
- 46.5 MB
- archs
- android-arm64-v8a
- version code
- 4142
- apk cert sha256
- d08b8e6408aff4f43556c05b819fef25afdd6912be7a678b0552468a4582c0ac
- download
- NightDrop-arm64-v8a.apk
0.1.27 — NightDrop-arm64-v8a.apk
- sha256
- 46884f1cdce6664369b303263050915fbeafc83b1c05e145315498ed1561869d
- size
- 45.7 MB
- archs
- android-arm64-v8a
- version code
- 4132
- apk cert sha256
- d08b8e6408aff4f43556c05b819fef25afdd6912be7a678b0552468a4582c0ac
- download
- NightDrop-arm64-v8a.apk
0.1.26 — NightDrop-arm64-v8a.apk
- sha256
- 30f404fa537a4ddc1e65aa35083aa4a67f4ac8a0a9b9c9dfdc9aafca8fe3adf7
- size
- 45.7 MB
- archs
- android-arm64-v8a
- version code
- 4122
- apk cert sha256
- d08b8e6408aff4f43556c05b819fef25afdd6912be7a678b0552468a4582c0ac
- download
- NightDrop-arm64-v8a.apk
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