App developers struggle to add end-to-end encryption
Developers building chat and note-taking apps report difficulty finding ready-to-use, well-documented ways to add client-side end-to-end encryption. Users also ask for encrypted storage in the notes and journaling tools they already use. The strongest shared opportunity is an integration toolkit for app developers; the iCloud file-availability and timed-release encryption requests are adjacent but distinct problems.
For developers building chat and note-taking apps. Mentioned from Mar 2017 to Jul 2026 on Bluesky, GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
6 different people described this problem in 6 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 5.3/10
- Frequency
- 7.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Businesses
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- High
What people said
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I am looking for a ready-to-use or well-documented software library/SDK to add client-side end-to-end encryption to an existing chat application
Looks great, just wish it had end-to-end-encryption
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