Zangi Messenger

So far I love this app. I use it to talk to my fiancé in the Philippines and we constantly deal with dropped calls when using WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Viber but when we use Zangi we almost never get dropped calls. Sometimes we get reconnects but it never drops. This app is a must for international communication to counties that have poor connections due to bad data throttling polices like Philippines does.

First, I need to say that this is a good traditional messenger app. Links show up with nice previews, gifs auto play, "FaceTime" and the rest of the usual bells & whistles. Now, as an encrypted messenger app, it's good because it has end-to-end encryption, nothing is stored or passes through any other party. However, I did give it three stars because I believe there are at least a couple necessary features that are missing from this app. Zangi doesn't have disappearing messages, you can't put a Touch ID or Face ID lock on the app, and you can't use a decryption key of your choosing. I've also noticed some really strange behavior like random pictures from my photo album being sent when all I type is text. Also, I've found that many of my text replacements won't work if I type and send the message quickly. Honestly, I prefer the messenger app "Signal", but I have friends on both, so I use both. I will admit that Zangi has the better GUI though.

I was frustrated every time when I was using Viber where fast internet wasn't always available. Zangi App overcomes this deficiency, it does NOT drop the connection, instead it lowers the transmission bandwidth and maintains the connection. This is the best app. for international travelers where fast internet availability may be limited.

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Bought into whole "messenger that uses the least data for voice calls" hype, article written by Zangi themselves, as i discovered later. They claim to use only 216kb per minute for calls. That's a blatant lie. downloaded to try, made a few test voice calls - no video, no pictures - according to their own app's log history, 10 SECONDS took 307kb of data. Moreover, when calling another zangi for free, the call does not go through (my husband is literally sitting next to me with his phone out while i'm calling him) forcing u to pay through using "zangi out". Deleting.

Zangi turned up to be a pretty neat app after all. I was somewhat skeptical at the beginning but after using it for a while and in certain regions the connection has been very very good.