Speek
Speek-App/Speek
An open-source alternative to Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp.
Privacy focused messenger that doesn't trust anyone with your identity, your contact list, or your communications (from the repository)
- Stars
- 768
- Licence
- Not identified
- Last push
- 2023-03-25
- Written in
- C++
Is it alive?
Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Quiet
Last push 3.6 years ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Stale
v1.7.0-release, 4.2 years ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
54% closed
19 open · 22 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+0 in 9 days
768 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.
What a business may do with it
Not identifiedno SPDX id
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Run it yourself
Speek’s README does not show a docker run, docker compose up or helm install in a code block, so this page will not guess one. It may be a desktop app, a library, or documented on its website.
Speek against the other open-source options
Every project offered against Signal, Telegram and 1 more, most-starred first.
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 MeiliSearch | 59,605 | Active | Not identified | ○ | Rust |
 Signal Android | 29,494 | Active | Network copyleft | ○ | Kotlin |
 Berty | 9,329 | Active | Not identified | ○ | TypeScript |
 Lokinet | 2,105 | Active | Copyleft | ○ | C++ |
 Speek (this page) | 768 | Quiet | Not identified | ○ | C++ |
 Coyim | 617 | Slowing | Not identified | ○ | Go |
 Kontalk | 575 | Quiet | Copyleft | ○ | Java |
 Snikket | 467 | Active | Permissive | Compose | Lua |
Where this page comes from
- Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
- The pairing with Signal, Telegram and 1 more and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
- Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data