FireChat
Sign in to saveFireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Firechat
- Software.logo
- FireChat_logo.png
- Software.logo size
- 200px
- Software.developer
- Open Garden
- Software.latest release version
- Discontinued
- Software.platform
- Android, iOS
- Software.genre
- mesh networking
- Software.license
- Proprietary
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FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.
Though it was not designed with the purpose in mind, FireChat was used as a communication tool in some civil protests.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “FireChat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.