What are your experiences with Molly?
What are your experiences with Molly?
Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal. Contribute to mollyim/mollyim-android development by creating an account on GitHub.
I've been wanting to link my Android tablet to Signal for ages now and recently came across Molly as an alternative app to use, which allows this possibility.
To import a backup from Signal you must use a matching or newer version of Molly, though, and where Molly is 6.41.3-2, Signal is 6.43.2, so I'll have to wait a bit before I can switch, I suppose. Looking at the open issues on Github though, it seems linked devices aren't all that stable yet.
How are your experiences with Molly, if you have them?
(I came across this disclaimer too: "unofficial forks are not supposed to use Signal’s infrastructure so Molly violates Signal’s TOS".)
Would Molly enable me to use Signal on two Android phones at the same time?
Yep, I'm doing it right now. I have the official Signal app on my main phone, then Molly on the second one.
I have to say, one thing that happened to me; I used to use Molly for both phones, but I would suddenly stop receiving messages on my main phone for some unknown reason. I would receive them on e.g. my computer client, but not my main phone. So I switched back to Signal as the main driver and Molly as the linked device..
The last time I did it, I was euphoric and more emthatic than I normally am.
I used it so I could be logged in on 2 phones simultaneously. Worked well for that, but aside from that just felt like normal Signal I think
I'm using molly for a few months now. No problems really. Using it to talk to a signal user. What I did notice is that there are less "wifi low, switching to data" messages now. Had those regularly while using the official Signal app, even with full wifi reception. Since I switched this happened only once or twice.
Also significantly less times that calls were ended when being on a call with somebody over night and just letting it run to continue speaking the next day. With the signal app it happened a lot, call ended and signal closed without any notification. With molly that never happened so far.
So tl;dr: Can only recommend
Not very good. On my Moto E32 it's not possible to create a password for the encrypted database, the field were i have to confirm my password is unreachable.