# Alternatives to Peach

The quirky micro-social app. Peach has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.

None of its 12 checklist rows are verified yet.

Source: https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/peach/
Category: Personal messaging

## Overview

- **Who it's for**: People who wanted a lightweight, private way to share short updates, photos, and doodles with a small circle of friends rather than broadcast publicly.
- **What you get**: A friends-only feed (no public discovery, hashtags, or follower counts) for posting text, photos, and GIFs. Its signature feature, 'magic words,' let users type short commands like 'gif,' 'draw,' or 'weather' to trigger inline mini-tools that inserted content into a post. Peach launched in January 2016, had a brief viral spike, then saw activity decline within months. It is now defunct: the team stopped active development by 2019, and the app was pulled from the App Store and Google Play by 2025.
- **How it works**: Users added friends, then composed posts in a simple text box; typing a recognized magic word opened a corresponding tool (drawing pad, GIF search, map, etc.) whose output was embedded in the post, which then appeared in friends' feeds.

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## Ranked alternatives

| # | App | Alt Score | Licence | Platforms |
|---|-----|-----------|---------|-----------|
| 1 | [Beeper](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/beeper.md) | building | Proprietary | iOS, Android, Windows, macOS |
| 2 | [Delta Chat](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/delta-chat.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | iOS, Android, Windows, macOS |
| 3 | [Jami](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/jami.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | iOS, Android, Windows, macOS |
| 4 | [Session](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/session.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS |
| 5 | [Signal](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/signal.md) | building | AGPL-3.0 | iOS, Android, Windows, macOS |
| 6 | [SimpleX Chat](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/simplex-chat.md) | building | AGPL-3.0 | iOS, Android, Windows, macOS |
| 7 | [Telegram](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/telegram.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | iOS, Android, Windows, macOS |
| 8 | [Threema](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/threema.md) | building | AGPL-3.0 | iOS, Android, Windows, macOS |
| 9 | [Viber](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/viber.md) | building | Proprietary | iOS, Android, Windows, macOS |
| 10 | [WhatsApp](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/whatsapp.md) | building | Proprietary | iOS, Android, Windows, macOS |
| 11 | [Wire](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/wire.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | iOS, Android, Windows, macOS |

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