Quiet
by Quiet · Peer-to-peer team chat over Tor with no servers
BenchRank score
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Overview
Quiet is a group chat application for teams and communities that syncs messages directly between members' devices over Tor, with no central server. It provides Slack-style channels, images, files, invite links and desktop notifications, with apps for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone via TestFlight. No email address or phone number is needed to create or join a community.
- Best for
- Teams and communities wanting Slack-style chat without servers, phone numbers or a host
- Pricing
- The captured page shows no prices; it only offers downloads and states that Quiet is open source.
- Runs on
- iOSAndroidmacOSWindowsLinux
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Syncs peer-to-peer over Tor, so there is no server to run
- No email or phone number needed to create or join a community
- Open source, so it can be forked and there is no vendor lock-in
- Slack-like channels, files, images and desktop notifications
Trade-offs
- In beta; the site says not to use it where security is required
- iPhone app is only available through TestFlight
- iOS notifications require some centralisation, per the site
- Avatars and direct messages are described as still coming
How Quiet markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Quiet’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Quit Big Tech. Never look back.”
- Angle: Contrarian / anti-incumbent
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Quiet’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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The Quiet pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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