Whisperfish is an advanced but unofficial Signal client. Whisperfish should be in a usable state for many users, but is still considered beta quality software; make sure to always have the latest version! Also, check our Wiki and feel free to contribute to it! Currently, mimimum supported SailfishOS version is 3.4. We intend to keep compatibility with 3.3 for as long as humanly possible. The build for SailfishOS 3.x is located in a separate OpenRepos application.
Do not ever contact the Signal developers about a Whisperfish issue. You will annoy them and make them dislike us. Contact us instead (see below).
Lot's of stuff should work. Check the forum for an up-to-date known issues list.
If the app behaves strangely or slow (I have a strong dislike for slow software) to you, please get in touch on Matrix #whisperfish:rubdos.be or on Libera.Chat #whisperfish, file an issue, or send an email to whisperfish [at] rubdos [dot] be, or post on the SailfishOS Forum topic. If it works well already, alse let me know! That's good for morale.
Follow the progress of the rework in the 0.6 milestone on Gitlab. If you are interested in contributing, contact me on Gitlab. If you want to discuss development, join the discussion on Matrix #whisperfish:rubdos.be.
There are nightly builds (in form of RPM) available on Gitlab. Nighlies eat batteries for breakfast, break up with your girlfriend, and use magic to turn phones into bricks. If you want to use them, please come and chat on Matrix or IRC. Whenever there is a version that makes sense, and has a low probability of tearing apart the very fabric of the universe, it'll be here on Open Repos!
Thanks for the support, feel free to buy me a coffee! Liberapay allows for donations via PayPal or credit card. While I do appreciate the donations, please consider matching your donation towards Signal themselves. They need it more than I do, now more than ever! Also consider donating to Weblate, because they provide their translation hosting service to us and many other SailfishOS applications at no cost!
The original Whisperfish 0.5.0, by Andrew, was released under GPLv3+. Since we are using the upstream code of Signal themselves, partly licensed under AGPLv3+, the whole of Whisperfish 0.6.0 falls under AGPLv3+.
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Many big plans!
The milestone on Gitlab for this release
Fix an issue during registration, and some QoL improvements
Overhauls the QML binding system. This should fix all UI inconsistencies, except for a few that are now introduced.
Bugfix release for most of the bugs we introduced in beta.13, and some fixes for changes upstream.
Profile fetching and updating, avatar displaying, sender key and unidentified sender support at receiver side, and much more.
Hotfix release for the new Signal root certificate
Mostly bugfixes for bugs that we introduced in beta.10, but also implements Whisperfish as secondary device. This release is basically completely due to direc85 and Gabriel Margiani; thank you both!
Many quality-of-life updates and technical debt fixes, thanks to the code sprint of Matti and Ruben!
Fixes for stuff in beta.8, mostly.
A bunch of quality-of-life updates, and SailfishOS 4.4 compatibilty! Direc85 did a lot of work in this release. If you consider donating to me for Whisperfish, please also consider buying direc85 a coffee.
Edition "omg OpenSSL".
Edition "invert the event loop". Write-up here: https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs/issues/102#issuecomment-919798690
Emergency release for the HTTP-500 "nothing can be send" bug and the BadKeyType bug.
Emergency release for the HTTP-500 "nothing can be send" bug.
The milestone on Gitlab for this release
Fixes startup on upgraded contact database.
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The milestone on Gitlab for this release
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rubdos
Thu, 2021/02/25 - 21:39
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By the way, if you still want to join, try to type /join #whisperfish:rubdos.be in any chat. Otherwise, let me know your Matrix username and I'll invite you!
delocoyo
Thu, 2021/02/25 - 15:24
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I have just send it in gitlab. I dont if thats tge best way for you,
rubdos
Thu, 2021/02/25 - 15:53
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Yes, let's continue this on Gitlab, that's perfect :-)
delocoyo
Thu, 2021/02/25 - 15:03
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Also if I try to open, holfing the message I cab open or delete. If I push open , the app failed.
delocoyo
Thu, 2021/02/25 - 14:58
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And I can even heard the audios
delocoyo
Thu, 2021/02/25 - 14:57
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Where should I send it to you?
delocoyo
Thu, 2021/02/25 - 12:31
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Hej rubdos. Been in koli 4 I cant read or see pictures that people is sending to me. I receive them, but cant open them.
rubdos
Thu, 2021/02/25 - 13:22
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Did this work before? Do their thumbnails show up? Please show me the contents of `.config/harbour-whisperfish/harbour-whisperfish.conf`, e.g. by running `cat .config/harbour-whisperfish/harbour-whisperfish.conf | grep attachment`. I think I know what bug this is; if I'm right this will be solved in the next release, but I'll walk you through getting it fixed already.
konst
Thu, 2021/02/25 - 10:30
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Hello! The app doesn't start. Freshly installed SFOS on XA2, 4.0.1.48.
When I tap on the icon, it moves in the screen with other running apps, then disappears in ~5 seconds
inte
Thu, 2021/02/18 - 01:54
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Is it just me or are conatcts not syncing any more in 4.0.1.48? And, by the way, the contact name shown previously appears to be the name stored in the nickname field which is not optimal since messenger id is stored in this field by the system when using the built in chat function??
rubdos
Thu, 2021/02/18 - 13:49
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Definitely not just you. It's in the description:
This is fixed in the master branch. Maybe I should branch out *yet another* alpha, now that 4.0 is actually released...
edp17
Fri, 2021/02/12 - 15:49
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Hello,
Thank you for working on native a Signal client.
The previous ones worked fine but the latest version on my Note4 port (SFOS 4.0.1.45) doesn't work. When I hit the Register button, I only get a white screen, then little later it displays a message at the top: "Could not connect to the reCAPTCHA service. Please check your internet connection and reload to get a reCAPTCHA challenge."
The internet (wifi) is on as I just installed the app and there is no way to reload the page. There is some log here: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/XYw92dYNKv/
rubdos
Fri, 2021/02/12 - 15:57
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This is sadly something we didn't get to work around on 4.0. See known issues here in the description and on https://gitlab.com/rubdos/whisperfish/-/wikis/home
I suggest you register on a 3.4 device and copy over your storage directories, we do not a have a fix handy yet, we're awaiting a bug report with Jolla.
edp17
Fri, 2021/02/12 - 16:33
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Thank you. I'll try that.
rubdos
Fri, 2021/02/12 - 18:44
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Check https://gitlab.com/rubdos/whisperfish/-/issues/229 for the right directories!
lunatix
Wed, 2021/02/10 - 18:32
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Hello @rubdos and thank you very much for this app. Here my few questions:
- Do you confirm that we cannot run the android app and your app at the same time?
- Is there any workaround to join existing groups ? Or do we need to create new groups ourselves?
- Any plan to implement the "swipe move" to answer to a specific message?
Once again, thank you very much for your work, keep it up!
rubdos
Wed, 2021/02/10 - 20:02
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Yes, Whisperfish and the Android Signal app are both "primary device" apps. Ntninja has a work-in-progress branch that would enable Whisperfish to act as "secondary device", which would enable using WF and an official app at the same time. This is not a priority for me though.
No workaround for GroupV2, we have to implement completely new crypto for this. Creating groups from Whisperfish is also not possible. The only thing you can do, is to ask a group member to create a new group that includes you from the beginning. GroupV2 is high on the priority list because of several reasons.
Swipe move? If you refer to "reacting" to a message (both with emoji and with text), yes, this is planned, but not a priority currently.
lunatix
Wed, 2021/02/10 - 20:38
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Thank you for your answers!
deprecated
Tue, 2021/02/09 - 20:14
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@rubdos Thank you for all your hard work and devotion to our community. If there's anything I can help with (testing, trying different configurations, etc.) I'll be glad to do so.
Am I correct in assuming that, if I register Whisperfish before updating to Sailfish 4.x, the captcha rendering should work okay?
Thank you!
rubdos
Wed, 2021/02/10 - 11:30
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Very correct assumption! I urge everyone to register before upgrading to 4.0, because I'm not sure whether we will resolve this issue before 4.1 comes out. There seems to be an issue with Jolla's library.
Testing is very much appreciated indeed. If you want to live on the edge, you can download the master branch builds, but if you do so, please come have a chat on IRC or Matrix :-)
csg1976
Mon, 2021/02/08 - 11:28
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Cannot register for some reason. "Client could not be set up"
rubdos
Mon, 2021/02/08 - 15:49
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We're currently working on fixing this, as currently written in the description. Getting it done is a bit more difficult than expected. :-(
damoleon
Thu, 2021/02/04 - 22:59
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Edit : sorry I missed the part above where it says it's planned for beta1 :) I'll wait, thanks :)
Thanks again for this app. Is linking the device with signal desktop implemented yet ?
when I copy the url to link the device and click on "add". It just comes back to the "linked devices" page. But the device isn't linked even after "refresh".
Keep up the nice and hard work :)
rubdos
Fri, 2021/02/05 - 00:27
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Thanks! Beta 1 will be glorious! :-)
jlaitine
Wed, 2021/02/03 - 17:57
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Thanks for this app and for the quick response, I'm looking forward to try out the alpha.8! And sorry for the formatting of the log, it didn't come out quite right when I tried to copy-paste directly on the phone...
rubdos
Wed, 2021/02/03 - 19:22
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No worries about the formatting. Your log definitely confirmed that there's a fundamental problem, it's been very helpful :-)
jlaitine
Wed, 2021/02/03 - 01:49
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Hi, I tried to take this into use, but registration fails. I tried 0.6.0-alpha7 and 0.6.0-beta1 nightly
here is some log:
Sailfish OS 3.4.0.24 (Pallas-Yllästunturi)'---[nemo@XperiaXA2-DualSIM ~]$ harbour-wharbour-whisperfish harbour-wifianalyser[nemo@XperiaXA2-DualSIM ~]$ harbour-wharbour-whisperfish harbour-wifianalyser[nemo@XperiaXA2-DualSIM ~]$ harbour-whisperfish[D] unknown:0 - Using Wayland-EGL[W] unknown:42 - file:///usr/share/harbour-whisperfish/qml/cover/UnreadLabel.qml:42:15: Unable to assign [undefined] to QString[D] onTriggered:184 - Page status: 2[W] unknown:157 - file:///usr/lib/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Silica/DialogHeader.qml:157: TypeError: Cannot read property 'backIndicatorDown' of null[W] unknown:152 - file:///usr/lib/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Silica/DialogHeader.qml:152: TypeError: Cannot read property 'backIndicatorDown' of null[W] unknown:212 - file:///usr/lib/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Silica/DialogHeader.qml:212: TypeError: Cannot read property 'forwardIndicatorDown' of null[W] unknown:207 - file:///usr/lib/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Silica/DialogHeader.qml:207: TypeError: Cannot read property 'forwardIndicatorDown' of null[D] onTriggered:156 - Page status: 2[2021-02-02T22:38:47Z ERROR harbour_whisperfish::worker::setup]Error in registration: Unexpected response: HTTP 402[D] :42 - Failed to setup Signal client
rubdos
Wed, 2021/02/03 - 10:54
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Hi! It looks like since yesterday, second of Februari, we see hightened requests from Signal for Whisperfish users to file a captcha. Some developers (including me) have gotten them too.
I will prioritise the captcha implementation now. There doesn't seem to be a viable workaround. I'll make a note in the description, and break out an alpha.8 soon™.
mz_i_norge
Tue, 2021/02/02 - 00:44
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Thx for your fast reply. Nice to hear that you have all my questions on your desk. I will go on using Wf on my Jolla C and for the rest I will do like Wonko, wait for the next release. :-)
mz_i_norge
Mon, 2021/02/01 - 18:03
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Thx for the nativ client for Signal. Good job and I hope for ongoing development. There are to things to say. It took me 3 days to find the button for sending pictures. (For others: it's not a separate button, you have to press and hold the send-button and the option for sending files will appear ;).) Please insert a description for this function on the about-page.
I don't know how to get an overview about my contacts using Signal/ Whisperfish. When I open a new communication all my contacts appear in the list (and I know that only a few of them have Signal). One more thing, can you please make a checkbox in the settings to start without password?
Otherwise brilliant and keep up the good work.
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