Delta Chat Downloads & RevenueDelta Chat · App Store & Google Play
Delta Chat by merlinux is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
🔎AndroidTop 10 for “chat”📈iOSCharting in a new country📦iOSUpdated to version 2.65.0📈iOSCharting in a new country🆕iOSFirst spotted by AppInsider📊AndroidPassed 100k monthly users🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider📦iOSVersion 2.62.2📦AndroidVersion 2.62.0🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play🆕iOSReleased on the App Store
Full timeline · 13 events
- 🔎Delta Chat reached Top 10 for “chat”Android#10 in Taiwan search · popularity 78
- 📈Delta Chat charting in a new countryiOSSweden
- ✏️Delta Chat added 2 languagesiOS+ MT + MY
- 📦Delta Chat updated to version 2.65.0iOS- Pinned Messages
- Handle invite links pasted to search bars
- Nicer profile and group image selection
- Revamped message info screen
- Larger emojis in default reaction selection
- Improve sending reliability by trying th most recently successfully used relay first
- Chat view now has a more button with chat actions that used to live in the profile view
- Improve message's context menu
These features will roll out over the coming days. Thanks for using Delta Chat!… more - 📈Delta Chat charting in a new countryiOSVietnam
- 📈Delta Chat charting in a new country in 2 chartsiOSNetherlands · Russia
- 🆕Delta Chat first spotted by AppInsideriOSUnited States (found via search)
- 📊Delta Chat passed 100k monthly usersAndroidour estimate
- 🆕Delta Chat first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidRussia
- 📦Delta Chat version 2.62.2iOS- Onboard on multiple relays by default
- No need to mark a relay for sending, this is chosen by the core automatically
- Better image quality
- Show a hint about contacts not seen for a while
- Show coarse time when a contact was seen in the profile headers
- More reliable and quicker notifications and call ringing
- Update notification when its message is edited
- Remove notification if its message is deleted
- Improved share sheet reliability
- Remove a relay immediately instead of unpublishing it
- Carry all relays in invite links for better connectivity
- Respect "media quality" when sending videos
- Verification line is no longer needed, all contacts have that mean and are e2ee by default since V2
- Improve fetching messages in background
- Better file preview when drafting a message
- Fix: Do not load webxdc icon if it has too large dimensions
- Fix: No longer send read receipts when call window is covering messages
- Fix removing quotes or attachments from drafts pre-liquid-glass
These features will roll out over the coming days. Thanks for using Delta Chat!… more - 📦Delta Chat version 2.62.0Android★ Improve resilience & decentralization: new users onboard by default in more than one relay, randomly selected
★ Improve resilience: pick random relay for sending and try others if sending with one fails
★ Add speed button for voice message playback
★ Improve image quality of sent images
★ Target Android 17
★ New language supported: Belarusian
★ Several bug fixes and updated translations… more - 🆕Delta Chat released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Delta Chat released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.4 ★
3.1k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#151
Android · 
Communication Free
Communication FreeMeasured
App Store
App details
App ID
1459523234
Publisher
merlinux GmbH
Publisher country
Germany
On the store since
Jan 2020
6 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.6+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
46
SQ AR AZ EU BE BG MY CA HR CS DA NL …
Size
63 MB
Also listed in
Productivity
Google Play
App details
App ID
chat.delta
Publisher
merlinux GmbH
Publisher country
Germany
Content rating
Everyone
Delta Chat downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | – | 50k+ |
| Google Play | – | 1M+ Measured |
| Total | – | 1M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | – | 0 of 30 countries | – | – |
| Google Play | #151 Communication Free | 1 of 23 countries | – | – |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.1★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of Social Networking apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.4 ★ | 129 |
| Google Play | 4.4 ★ | 3k 117 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.4 ★ weighted by ratings | 3.1k |
About Delta Chat
Delta Chat is a reliable decentralized instant messenger that is easy and fun to use for friends, family, groups and organizations. Delta Chat is developed by a dedicated FOSS contributor community that jointly releases refinements and new features several times a year, across many stores and platforms world-wide.
Features at a glance:
• 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.
• 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.
• FOSS. Fully Open Source/Free Software, built on Internet Standards.
Features at a glance:
• 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.
• 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.
• FOSS. Fully Open Source/Free Software, built on Internet Standards.
Delta Chat App Store
Not in any tracked top chart right now.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Developermerlinux
CategorySocial Networking
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.4 (129)
Version2.65.0
Age rating4+
First seen by us
14 Oct 2026
14 Oct 2026Installs (est.)50k+ worldwide
Rating
4.4 ★
129 ratings
Measured
Delta Chat on the App Store
App details
App ID
1459523234
Publisher
merlinux GmbH
Publisher country
Germany
On the store since
Jan 2020
6 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.6+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
46
SQ AR AZ EU BE BG MY CA HR CS DA NL …
Size
63 MB
Also listed in
Productivity
Delta Chat downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not charting right now. | ||
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.4 ★
129 ratings
Measured
Ratings
129
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.1★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of Social Networking apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Delta Chat
Delta Chat is a reliable decentralized instant messenger that is easy and fun to use for friends, family, groups and organizations. Delta Chat is developed by a dedicated FOSS contributor community that jointly releases refinements and new features several times a year, across many stores and platforms world-wide.
Features at a glance:
• 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.
• 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.
• FOSS. Fully Open Source/Free Software, built on Internet Standards.
Features at a glance:
• 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.
• 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.
• FOSS. Fully Open Source/Free Software, built on Internet Standards.
Latest updates
2.65.0
- Pinned Messages
- Handle invite links pasted to search bars
- Nicer profile and group image selection
- Revamped message info screen
- Larger emojis in default reaction selection
- Improve sending reliability by trying th most recently successfully used relay first
- Chat view now has a more button with chat actions that used to live in the profile view
- Improve message's context menu
These features will roll out over the coming days. Thanks for using Delta Chat!
2.62.2
- Onboard on multiple relays by default
- No need to mark a relay for sending, this is chosen by the core automatically
- Better image quality
- Show a hint about contacts not seen for a while
- Show coarse time when a contact was seen in the profile headers
- More reliable and quicker notifications and call ringing
- Update notification when its message is edited
- Remove notification if its message is deleted
- Improved share sheet reliability
- Remove a relay immediately instead of unpublishing it
- Carry all relays in invite links for better connectivity
- Respect "media quality" when sending videos
- Verification line is no longer needed, all contacts have that mean and are e2ee by default since V2
- Improve fetching messages in background
- Better file preview when drafting a message
- Fix: Do not load webxdc icon if it has too large dimensions
- Fix: No longer send read receipts when call window is covering messages
- Fix removing quotes or attachments from drafts pre-liquid-glass
These features will roll out over the coming days. Thanks for using Delta Chat!
Store changes
What Delta Chat changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Added 2 languages
+ MT + MY
Delta Chat Android
Delta Chat is #151 in Communication Free on Google Play in Russia and charting in 1 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Developermerlinux
CategoryCommunication
PriceFree
Released
Installs1M+
Rating★ 4.4 (3k)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Rating
4.4 ★
3k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#151
Communication FreeMeasured
Delta Chat on Google Play
App details
App ID
chat.delta
Publisher
merlinux GmbH
Publisher country
Germany
Content rating
Everyone
Delta Chat downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Russia | CommunicationFree | #151 |
Apps near Delta Chat on the chart
Communication Free, around #151.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.4 ★
3k ratings
Measured
Ratings
3k
Measured
Written reviews
117
Measured
About Delta Chat
Delta Chat is a reliable decentralized instant messenger that is easy and fun to use for friends, family, groups and organizations. Delta Chat is developed by a dedicated FOSS contributor community that jointly releases refinements and new features several times a year, across many stores and platforms world-wide.
Features at a glance:
• Anonymous. Instant on-boarding without a phone number, e-mail or other private data.
• Flexible. Supports multiple chat profiles and is easy to setup on multiple devices.
• Extensible. Add tools like shopping lists, calendars or gaming apps to any chat.
• 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.
• FOSS. Fully Open Source/Free Software, built on Internet Standards.
• Audio and video calls supported! stay close to family and friends even when traveling.
Features at a glance:
• Anonymous. Instant on-boarding without a phone number, e-mail or other private data.
• Flexible. Supports multiple chat profiles and is easy to setup on multiple devices.
• Extensible. Add tools like shopping lists, calendars or gaming apps to any chat.
• 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.
• FOSS. Fully Open Source/Free Software, built on Internet Standards.
• Audio and video calls supported! stay close to family and friends even when traveling.
What's new in 2.62.0
★ Improve resilience & decentralization: new users onboard by default in more than one relay, randomly selected
★ Improve resilience: pick random relay for sending and try others if sending with one fails
★ Add speed button for voice message playback
★ Improve image quality of sent images
★ Target Android 17
★ New language supported: Belarusian
★ Several bug fixes and updated translations
★ Improve resilience: pick random relay for sending and try others if sending with one fails
★ Add speed button for voice message playback
★ Improve image quality of sent images
★ Target Android 17
★ New language supported: Belarusian
★ Several bug fixes and updated translations