I installed #Signal and #Conversations_im on a clean install of #GrapheneOS on my Pixel 4a and measured the battery impact. The results are shocking!
Both messengers had only one contact: my regular phone.
I used my regular phone to send messages to the Pixel 4a (which was not used for anything else over the course of the experiment).
I always sent the same message via Signal and #XMPP (mixing up which app went first). In total I sent ~32 messages in intervals of 10mins to a few hours.
@daniel I recommend Monocles over Conversations since it feels like a more fleshed out app than Conversations while still being based on the same code
@temmie19
Eh. I think it is bad taste to recommend a fork to the original app author that does 98% of the work for both apps.
While monocles has more features it is also more unstable, in the past it took a bit time with important security updates. And the UI is personal taste... So...
And nothing about this was asking about recommendations for different xmpp android apps anyway.
@Menel I had no idea they were the app creator/lead dev. Just recommended something based on my own experiences of using nothing but XMPP for two years