Amidst this positive news, note that Wire does not allow you to export your chat data, if you ever decide it’s not for you. I recall that this was an explicit decision by the company. Its backups are also platform specific. So if you switch from one mobile platform to another (or between desktop platforms or any other combination), you can’t restore your chats from a backup.

I still like that Wire doesn’t require a phone number, is multi platform and syncs conversations across all devices. But the above caveats meant that I had to stop using it.