ArcaneChat is a decentralized and secure instant messenger that is easy to use for friends and family. • Private. Instant on-boarding without a phone number or other private data. • Friends & Family: Only chat with people you know. Unknown users cannot message or follow you without mutual consent. • Flexible. Supports multiple chat profiles and is easy to setup on multiple devices. • Extensible. Use mini-apps in chats like shopping lists, calendars or games. • Reliable. Works under bad and adversarial network conditions. • Secure. Audited End-to-End encryption safe against network and server attacks. • Sovereign. Can be run with your own e-mail address or server. ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client and was created with a focus on usability, good user experience, and saving data plan. Also the app usually experiments with new features that eventually might get added to the official Delta Chat client. <b>Main differences with official Delta Chat client:</b> <ul> <li>Support for some markdown styles in text messages (bold, italic, strike, etc.)</li> <li>Support for displaying Telegram's animated stickers (.tgs files)</li> <li>Support for SVG images previews</li> <li>Multiple color themes/skins</li> <li>It is possible to disable profiles to completely disconnect them saving data/bandwidth</li> <li>You can easily see the connection status of all your profiles in the profile switcher</li> <li>Extra option to share location for 24 hours</li> <li>Clicking on a message with a POI location, will open the POI on the map</li> <li>Last-seen status of contacts is shown in your contact list, like in WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.</li> <li>Videos are played in loop, useful for short GIF videos</li> <li>Verified icon is shown in the chat list for the "Device Messages" and "Saved Messages" chat to avoid fishing attempts by scammer pretending to be the official chats</li> <li>Voice messages have more aggressive compression in "worse quality" mode to save data plan</li> <li>Automatic