Element X Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience38.8% of reviews
Neutral19.7% of reviews
Negative experience41.5% of reviews

~ Based on 188 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Element X Safe?

Element X - Secure Chat & Call has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Element X is 69/100.

This assessment is based on 169 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.4/5.

Safety Analysis

56.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
13.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
29.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 162 App Store ratings for Element X.

Is Element X Legit?

Element X - Secure Chat & Call appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Element X is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Feature Parity with Classic is limited

Still waiting on a tonne of the settings menu features to be carried over from classic to X. They don’t even have the bare minimum of a “Clear Cache” button. Why does the depreciated app have more features than the supposed next generation?

Replaced Slack, haven’t looked back

This tool is fabulous and is everything I need for the “private” social network I’ve created with a few friends. We have a bunch of rooms (channels) and we share thoughts throughout the day and share daily puzzle results. It’s the perfect - non corporate - tool for my use case.

I do not know how it would run if you were requiring hosting/maintenance of your own matrix server or one for an enterprise use case? From my experience it’s fantastic and I love that I’m not at the whims of some tech bro and their minions, nor am I feeding an AI with my posts.
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No threads?

Seem to have lost the option to display threads in any rooms. Also, search seems to come back with 0 results every time. Hardly an improvement, so far at least.

Уведомления

Уведомления о непрочитанных есть, а где найти эти непрочитанные - неизвестно. В соответствующем разделе - ничего

Aktualisierungsprobleme

Iphone rote Nachrichtenanzeige aktualisieren sich oft nicht, geschriebene Nachrichten erscheinen bei mir manchmal doppelt nach dem Versenden

Свобода общения

Для использования на self hosted инфраструктуре в личных целях без цензуры - самое то…

No ringing when someone starts a call.

The app itself is pretty decent when it comes to chatting, but when someone starts a call none of us get a notification or ring from it.
If this could get added in the future that would be great.

WhatsApp killer

Enfin une app pour remplacer whatsapp et teams!

It’s okay

It’s alright, lacks a lot of must have things, can’t search for specific words etc. Bad encryption, lots of bugs, crashes and server connection issues on daily basis

Sign in on the Mac does not work

I’m stuck on the “Open the app on another verified device” step. I’ve spent almost an hour trying to set it up, but it still doesn’t work. The verification emojis appear on my iPhone, but nothing shows up on the Mac, just shows loading, so I can’t complete the sign-in process.

Extremely buggy

Emoji verification loops, missing ‘verify device’ options on load. Such a shame.

Alright

This app has a constant red (1) notification and it's been that way since I first used it. Other than that it works fine. In some ways its more stable than the element desktop app

Все плохо

Презираю разработчиков этой поделки. Приложение делали аутсайдеры специальной олимпиады по программированию

Complete lack of QA

In some ways more polished than Element Classic, in other ways it’s even worse. My favourite Element X bug so far is how it will randomly refuse to start and will instead leave you stranded on a white screen until you restart your phone or the app randomly decides you can use it again. Photos that have just been sent in chat not unblurring at all until you swipe out of the room and back in is another instant classic, despite only being introduced in the last few updates.

Do the developers even test what they push out? Embarrassing given this is a commercial product
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Freiheit war früher

Heute sollst du dich sogar per Google/Apple etc. dort registrieren, mindestens aber per Email. Klar, nur für dein "besseres Nutzungserlebnis!", weil du ja zu blöd bist, dein Passwort zu notieren.
Bis 2025 reichte eine Fantasiekennung und ein Fanstasiepasswort!
Aber wir sind ja alle potentielle Kriminelle, die breite Datenspur, die wir sowieso erzeugen, ist den Überwachern zu unkomfortabel, sie wollen unsere Idenfikation 'frei Haus'. Signal finde ich allerdings aus anderen Gründen noch übler.
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Horizontal scroll tables (markdown)

Would be great to have this, tables render terribly at the moment.

Accidentally logouts

Often logout me (without destruct the session) from my home server

Поиск

Оптимизируете поиск по ключевым словам и дерево ответов.

Статус

Было бы не плохо чтоб можно было установить статус

Works fine for me

Getting logged into a Matrix server is an esoteric challenge, but once you’re in, this app works great. It does have Spaces and Rooms. I even saw an indicator that there was a thread in one of my rooms. I don’t see the ability to make a thread myself.