Voice calls are an excellent addition. If these could now also be extended to video calls, I could likely ditch Skype forever.
[1] - https://wire.com/en/
[1] https://github.com/wireapp [2]https://medium.com/wire-news/wires-independent-security-revi...
It's not as good as Telegram's UI and featureset, but they're much newer/younger still. I'm starting to use it more and more.
The desktop client is electron, and there's no way their Android app is native, it feels like a WebView.
Native apps really do make the experience that much better.
Most of my family is on iPhone's, while I'm using Android. I tried using Wire as a substitute for Facetime (my 3 year old doesn't consider it a real phone call unless there's video), but it was way too buggy and people would just get annoyed.
Signal's new video chat, however, has worked really well after it got out of beta. There aren't many apps that manage to do video calls well between Android and iPhone, I'm a bit surprised that that feature hasn't gotten more attention.